Com­mu­ni­cat­ing ra­tio­nal­ity to the pub­lic: Ju­lia Galef’s “The Straw Vul­can”

King Un­der The Moun­tain: Ad­ven­ture Log + Soundtrack

Friend­ship and hap­piness generation

[SEQ RERUN] Guardians of the Truth

LessWrong opinion of Niet­zsche?

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Hous­ton, At­lanta, Eu­gene OR, San Diego, Fort Col­lins CO, Water­loo, Melbourne

Should LessWrong be In­ter­ested in the Oc­cupy Move­ments?

In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sion anal­y­sis draft: How long be­fore digi­tal in­tel­li­gence?

Will the ems save us from the robots?

Re­view of Kurzweil, ‘The Sin­gu­lar­ity is Near’

[SEQ RERUN] Hug the Query

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