Link: If you don’t already read Bad Science

Peter Thiel an­nounces the 20 tal­ented peo­ple he will pay to drop out of col­lege to pur­sue in­no­va­tive sci­en­tific and tech­ni­cal projects

Strate­gic Reliablism

[SEQ RERUN] De­bi­as­ing as Non-Self-Destruction

Wiki: Stan­dard Refer­ence or Origi­nal Re­search?

So how much util­ity is it?

Pan­crit­i­cal Ra­tion­al­ism Can Ap­ply to Prefer­ences and Behavior

Lightswitches

LW Biol­ogy 101 In­tro­duc­tion: Con­strain­ing Anticipation

Self-pro­gram­ming through spaced repetition

Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity?

Free Stats Text­book: Prin­ci­ples of Uncertainty

LessWrong Power Reader (Grease­mon­key script, up­dated)

[SEQ RERUN] Know­ing About Bi­ases Can Hurt People

Dis­solu­tion of free will as a call to action

Offi­cial Less Wrong Redesign: Nearly there

In­fer­ring Our Desires

Sig­nal­ing for a cause

[REVIEW] Foun­da­tions of Neu­roe­co­nomic Analysis

Min­neapo­lis Meetup: Satur­day May 28, 3:00PM

Ace At­tor­ney: pi­o­neer Ra­tion­al­ism-di­dac­tic game?

Analo­gies and learning

Las Ve­gas LW Meetup!

Al­gorithm-de­pen­dent prob­lems with self-modification

How to Dis­solve the Prob­lem of Free Will and Deter­minism (Video)

Naive De­ci­sion Theory

[SEQ RERUN] The Ma­jor­ity Is Always Wrong

Any LWers in UK West Mid­lands?

What makes Less Wrong awe­some?

Melbourne Meetup: Fri­day 3rd June, 7pm

Evolu­tion, bias and global risk

The Ultraviolet

How To Be More Con­fi­dent… That You’re Wrong

Less Wrong and The Ultraviolet

De­con­fus­ing Prob­a­bil­ity: What is prob­a­bil­ity any­way?

A sum­mary of Sav­age’s foun­da­tions for prob­a­bil­ity and util­ity.

[SEQ RERUN] The Er­ror of Crowds

Ra­tion­al­ist horo­scopes: A low-hang­ing util­ity gen­er­a­tor.

LINK: Ralph Merkle lec­ture, ‘In­tro­duc­tion to Molec­u­lar Nan­otech­nol­ogy’

ANKI flash­card deck: Cog­ni­tive Bi­ases and Re­lated Terms

So­cial Profi­ciency of a Ra­tion­al­ist and a Scholar

Dirty old men and greedy young women

Not a Meetup May 22 in Cam­bridge, MA

Bi­ases to watch out for while job hunt­ing?

Toronto Meetup, May 24th

[SEQ RERUN] Use­ful Statis­ti­cal Biases

Ir­ish Less Wrong meetup Sun­day 29 May?

Auck­land meetup, Thrus­day May 26th

Up­com­ing meet-ups: Auck­land, Ban­ga­lore, Hous­ton, Toronto, Min­neapo­lis, Ot­tawa, DC, North Carolina, BC...

The Joys of Con­ju­gate Priors