LW was started to help altruists

[Link] “It’ll never work”: a col­lec­tion of failed predictions

Ra­tion­al­ist Hobbies

prefer­ences:de­ci­sion the­ory :: data:code

Spoiled Dis­cus­sion of Per­mu­ta­tion City, A Fire Upon The Deep, and Eliezer’s Mega Crossover

Alt text of to­day’s xkcd ad­dresses akrasia

Fun and Games with Cog­ni­tive Biases

Abil­ity to react

Cry­on­ics and Pas­cal’s wager

Brains more com­pli­cated than pre­vi­ously thought

Doodling as a tool of thought (just a link)

Dead men tell tales: fal­ling out of love with SIA

Schol­ar­ship and DIY Science

Why can’t a man be more like a woman?

Strong sub­strate in­de­pen­dence: a thing that goes wrong in my mind when ex­posed to philosophy

Writ­ing re­views in­stead of collecting

Re­cur­sively Self-Im­prov­ing Hu­man Intelligence

Re­vis­it­ing the an­thropic trilemma III: solu­tions and interpretations

Sleep­ing anti-beauty and the pre­sump­tu­ous philosopher

Com­puter se­cu­rity story

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