Op­ti­mal Em­ploy­ment Open Thread

In­tro to Nat­u­ral­ist Me­taethics?

Tor­tur­ing peo­ple for fun

Why we should fear the Paper­clip­per [Link]

Al­gorithms as Case Stud­ies in Rationality

[COMIC] An­thropic dun­geon crawling

IBM’s “Wat­son” pro­gram to com­pete against “Jeop­ardy” cham­pi­ons tonight

Peter Thiel backs “AI startup” [link]

Meetup posts as dis­cus­sion threads, please

Against Desirism

Why Do We En­gage in Mo­ral Sim­plifi­ca­tion?

Open Thread: Mathematics

So­cial Ne­ces­sity of Drinking

Farm­ing­ton Hills, MI Less Wrong meetup: Sun­day, Fe­bru­ary 20

Ex­er­cise and motivation

BOOK DRAFT: ‘Ethics and Su­per­in­tel­li­gence’ (part 1)

Bridg­ing In­fer­en­tial Gaps and Ex­plain­ing Ra­tion­al­ity to Other People

Science: Do It Yourself

Link: Cry­on­ics and the Creation of a Durable Morality

Se­cure Your Beliefs

Are In­tu­itions Good Ev­i­dence? [Link]

LINK: ‘Philos­o­phy Bites’ epi­sode on the Singularity

What’s the sin­gle best in­tro­duc­tion to evolu­tion to give to a cre­ation­ist?

Make your train­ing useful

An Abor­tion Dialogue

Com­pre­hen­si­ble Im­prov­ments: Things you Could Do.

Madi­son Less Wrong Meetup: Wed­nes­day, 16 Feb

Think­ing Out­side The Sphere

Sub­jec­tive Rel­a­tivity, Time Dila­tion and Divergence

Sugges­tions for a pre­sen­ta­tion on FAI?

In­ter­est in LW meetup in Farm­ing­ton Hills, Michi­gan?

Ra­tion­al­ity for Other People

Time Magaz­ine has an ar­ti­cle about the Sin­gu­lar­ity...

Ken Jen­nings to give 50% of Wat­son com­peti­ton win­nings to VillageReach [link]

Toronto Less Wrong Meetup—Thurs­day Feb 17

Poll: What do you look for in a re­la­tion­ship?

A ra­tio­nal­ist’s guide to psy­choac­tive drugs

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