Over­com­ing the nega­tive sig­nal of not at­tend­ing col­lege.

Mak­ing money with Bit­coin?

Who’s likely to write the AI? A hypothesis

A sim­ple-minded the­ory of “ob­server fluid”

Write It Like A Poem

(Hu­mor, link) UnFriendly AI has claimed its first vic­tim...

Au­to­mated the­o­rem prov­ing by learn­ing from examples

Re­vis­it­ing the An­thropic Trilemma II: ax­ioms and assumptions

Set­tled ques­tions in philosophy

[LINK] What are some stupid things smart peo­ple do?

A gene for bad mem­ory? (Link)

Not own­ing our beliefs

Re­vis­it­ing the an­thropic trilemma I: in­tu­itions and contradictions

Some Heuris­tics for Eval­u­at­ing the Sound­ness of the Aca­demic Main­stream in Un­fa­mil­iar Fields

Ra­tion­al­ist Di­plo­macy, Game Two Post-game Discussion

The non-painless upload

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]