FAI FAQ draft: gen­eral in­tel­li­gence and greater-than-hu­man intelligence

Study­ing Psy­chol­ogy—Which path should I take to best help our cause? Sugges­tions please.

What math­e­mat­ics to learn

[SEQ RERUN] Ar­gu­ment Screens Off Authority

Value of In­for­ma­tion: Four Examples

In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sion anal­y­sis draft: Why de­sign­ing digi­tal in­tel­li­gence gets eas­ier over time

FAI FAQ draft: What is nan­otech­nol­ogy?

New web­site on ca­reers for op­ti­mal philanthropy

[Link] The De­ci­sion Ed­u­ca­tion Foundation

Crit­i­cisms of in­tel­li­gence explosion

The ethics of ran­dom­ized com­pu­ta­tion in the multiverse

[META] Can’t post comments

5-sec­ond level case study: Value of information

FAI-rele­vant XKCD

[In­fo­graphic] A re­minder as to how far the ra­tio­nal­ity wa­ter­line can climb (at least, for the US).

How to prove any­thing with a re­view article

One pixel elec­tronic con­tact lens tested on rab­bits [link]

Ob­jec­tions to Co­her­ent Ex­trap­o­lated Volition

Me­taethics: Where I’m Headed

Yet an­other Sleep­ing Beauty

[SEQ RERUN] Re­v­ersed Stu­pidity Is Not Intelligence

Where do I most ob­vi­ously still need to say “oops”?

[LINK] Sig­nal­ling and ir­ra­tional­ity in Soft­ware Development

How did you come to find LessWrong?

[Link] Walk­ing Through Doors Causes Forgetting

[SEQ RERUN] Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult

Draw­ing Less Wrong: Ob­serv­ing Reality

Meetup : Ot­tawa Weekly Mon­day LessWrong Meetup

Meetup : Monthly Bay Area meetup

Rare and Valuable skills worth mas­ter­ing?

Prac­ti­cal debiasing

Con­nect­ing Your Beliefs (a call for help)

[SEQ RERUN] The Rob­bers Cave Experiment

How to write a math­e­mat­i­cal for­mula on the fear of death?

Meetup : Next At­lanta Less Wrong Meetup

Meetup : Madi­son Mon­day Meetup

Poli­ti­cal im­passe as re­sult of differ­ent odds ratios

Don’t Ap­ply the Prin­ci­ple of Char­ity to Yourself

[Link] Cog­ni­tive bias mod­ifi­ca­tion as a treat­ment for depression

Draw­ing Less Wrong: Overview of Skills, and Rele­vance to Rationality

[SEQ RERUN] When None Dare Urge Restraint

Which is the the ar­ti­cle that de­scribes draw­ing the map of the city?

[Link] TED- Cyn­thia Kenyon: Ex­per­i­ments that Hint at Longer Lives

[Link] Raytheon given $10.5 to de­velop ‘se­ri­ous games’ for bias reduction

Where do self­ish val­ues come from?

The pun­ish­ment dilemma

Meetup : Austin, TX NEW LOCATION!

Raytheon to Develop Ra­tion­al­ity-Train­ing Games

Meetup : Skep­ti­con IV meetup: Satur­day night

[Link] New pa­per: “The quan­tum state can­not be in­ter­preted statis­ti­cally”