Open Thread, Fe­bru­ary 2011

Ex­tremely Coun­ter­fac­tual Mug­ging or: the gist of Trans­par­ent Newcomb

Ra­tional = true?

Why is red­dit so nega­tive?

Block­ing users

The UFAI among us

Other peo­ple’s pro­ce­du­ral knowl­edge gaps

Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity: Group Prob­lem Solv­ing Session

Sub­jec­tive an­ti­ci­pa­tion as a de­ci­sion process

How to make your in­tu­itions cost-sensitive

Anti-fragility

Is there a name for this bias?

Pro­ce­du­ral Knowl­edge Gaps

Seat­tle, WA—Less Wrong Meetup—Sun­day Fe­bru­ary 20th, 2:00 PM

Con­ver­gence The­o­ries of Meta-Ethics

Reach­ing the gen­eral public

Madi­son Meetup—Ideas, arrangements

The Vol­un­teer’s Dilemma

Where are the big ques­tions?

SUGGEST and VOTE: Posts We Want to Read on Less Wrong

What does a calcu­la­tor mean by “2”?

[LINK] Levels of Ethics

Value Sta­bil­ity and Aggregation

A bit meta: Do posts come in batches? If so, why?

Re­vis­ing pri­ors and an­thropic reasoning

post pro­posal: At­trac­tion and Se­duc­tion for Hetero­sex­ual Male Rationalists

My hour-long in­ter­view with Yud­kowsky on “Be­com­ing a Ra­tion­al­ist”

Re­quest: A his­to­rian’s take on the singularity

You’re in New­comb’s Box

How to Beat Procrastination

Fast Minds and Slow Computers

LINK: An­ders Sand­berg, “An Overview of Models of Tech­nolog­i­cal Sin­gu­lar­ity”

Another Ar­gu­ment Against Eliezer’s Meta-Ethics

Try­ing to track down a quote about evolution

Philoso­phers and seek­ing answers

On Char­i­ties and Lin­ear Utility

Agree­ment button

In­stru­men­tal Variables

Scott Adams: ‘Mock­a­bil­ity Test’

An­gles of Attack

[Link] Space Sta­sis: What the strange per­sis­tence of rock­ets can teach us about innovation

On The Effec­tive­ness of Ferriss

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[Draft] Holy Bayesian Mul­ti­verse, Bat­man!

Isn’t this siteme­ter log­ging a bit too ex­ces­sive?

Why peo­ple re­ject science

Nor­mal gut micro­biota mod­u­lates brain de­vel­op­ment and be­hav­ior (at least in mice)

Cam­bridge UK Meetup Satur­day 12 February

Is Athe­ism a failure to dis­t­in­guish Near and Far?

Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity In­sti­tute hiring post­docs from philos­o­phy, math, CS