Ac­tion and habit

Q&A with Shane Legg on risks from AI

Re­cent site changes

Scien­tific mis­con­duct mis­di­ag­nosed be­cause of sci­en­tific misconduct

Plu­ral­is­tic Mo­ral Reductionism

Q&A with Jür­gen Sch­mid­hu­ber on risks from AI

The True Re­jec­tion Challenge

Not for the Sake of Plea­sure Alone

The Ide­olog­i­cal Tur­ing Test

SIAI’s Short-Term Re­search Program

Dis­cus­sion: Yud­kowsky’s ac­tual ac­com­plish­ments be­sides divulgation

Foma: Beliefs that Cause Them­selves to be True

Q&A with Stan Fran­klin on risks from AI

Ra­tional Hu­man­ist Music

Ob­served Pas­cal’s Mugging

Model Uncer­tainty, Pas­calian Rea­son­ing and Utilitarianism

Ex­clude the su­per­nat­u­ral? My wor­ld­view is up for grabs.

Mal­ice, Stu­pidity, or Egal­ité Ir­réfléchie?

Karma thresh­old for meetup or­ganisers?

Dis­cus­sion: So­cially Awk­ward Pen­guin as a tool for un­rav­el­ing so­cial enigmas

Safety Cul­ture and the Marginal Effect of a Dollar

The Four-Hour Body by Ti­mothy Fer­riss—any LWers tried it?

Ra­tional Par­ent­ing?

[Link] Does a Si­mu­la­tion Really Need to Be Run?

Help: Writ­ing Marvin Minsky

What do bad clothes sig­nal about you?

[prize] Spaced Rep­e­ti­tion liter­a­ture review

So, I guess the site re­design is live?

Why No Wire­head­ing?

En­tan­gled with Real­ity: The Shoelace Example

Learn­ing how to ex­plain things

Re­view of Doris, ‘The Mo­ral Psy­chol­ogy Hand­book’ (2010)

The proper use of re­gret?

Ra­tion­al­ity Boot Camp

Heuris­tics for De­cid­ing What to Work On

The Land­mark Fo­rum — a ra­tio­nal­ist’s first impression

Biomed­i­cal en­g­ineers an­a­lyze—and du­pli­cate—the neu­ral mechanism of learn­ing in rats [link]

Quan­tum com­put­ing for the de­ter­mined (Link)

[prize] new con­test for Spaced Rep­e­ti­tion liter­a­ture re­view ($365+)

Cry­on­ics fa­cil­ity com­ing to Texas?

N-back news: Jaeggi 2011, or, is there a psy­chol­o­gist/​statis­ti­cian in the house?

Rewrit­ing the se­quences?

The scope of “free will” within biol­ogy?

Me­mory, Spaced Rep­e­ti­tion and Life

Brief ques­tion about Con­way’s Game of LIfe and AI

Mu­sic: The 21st Cen­tury Monads

A Philo­soph­i­cal Trea­tise of Univer­sal In­duc­tion (Link)

Two work­ing mem­o­ries, one on each side of the brain [link]

The Pre­sent State of Bitcoin

Help Re­quest: Cry­on­ics Policies