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

Sleep­ing Beauty

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes: Fe­bru­ary 2011

The Ur­gent Meta-Ethics of Friendly Ar­tifi­cial Intelligence

Ap­proach­ing Infinity

Start­ing a LW meet-up is easy.

Google and charity

[Link] Cool or creepy?

Coun­ter­fac­tual Calcu­la­tion and Ob­ser­va­tional Knowledge

Op­ti­mal Employment

Re­ply to Stu­art on anthropics

Berkeley LW Meet-Up Satur­day Fe­bru­ary 5

Avoid in­ter­rup­tions by time-shift­ing them

Look­ing for in­for­ma­tion on scor­ing calibration

What is Eliezer Yud­kowsky’s meta-eth­i­cal the­ory?

David Chalmers’ “The Sin­gu­lar­ity: A Philo­soph­i­cal Anal­y­sis”

AIXI-style IQ tests

The au­tho­rial construct

Pu­n­ish­ing fu­ture crimes

A poem for LessWrong

META: Which posts are ap­pro­pri­ate for the ar­ti­cles sec­tion vs. the dis­cus­sion sec­tion?

A Pos­si­ble Solu­tion to Parfit’s Hitchiker

This Sun­day: Oxford Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup

$295 bounty for new Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute logo de­sign (crowd-sourced com­pe­ti­tion)

A sealed prediction

“Add to Friends” does some­thing or not?

Ev­i­dence of a link be­tween what type of fat one eats and depression

Link: Mone­tiz­ing anti-akra­sia mechanisms

Pro­posal: all Ama­zon hy­per­links get Less Wrong’s Ama­zon As­so­ci­ates refer­ral code

Omega can be re­placed by amnesia

Meta: Test

Three easy an­thropic mod­els, and two hard ones

A Bayesian Ar­gu­ment for Theis­tic Fine-Tuning

A plan for spam

The Orange Head Joke