[Link] The Bayesian ar­gu­ment against in­duc­tion.

Spaced Rep­e­ti­tion liter­a­ture re­view con­test sub­mis­sions: Au­gust 1st deadline

Meetup : Ot­tawa LessWrong Weekly(ish) Meetup

Psy­chol­o­gist mak­ing pseudo-claim that re­cent works “com­pro­mise the Bayesian point of view”

Re­cent neu­ro­science rele­vant to metaethics and ex­trap­o­la­tion algorithms

Re­cent Less Wrong downtime

To Speak Veripoop

Any­one with the med­i­cal knowl­edge to eval­u­ate an ex­traor­di­nary claim?

Any­one with the med­i­cal knowl­edge to eval­u­ate an ex­traor­di­nary claim?

Any­one with the med­i­cal knowl­edge to eval­u­ate an ex­traor­di­nary claim?

Any­one with the med­i­cal knowl­edge to eval­u­ate an ex­traor­di­nary claim?

[SEQ RERUN] Con­ser­va­tion of Ex­pected Evidence

Seth Baum’s new global catas­trophic risks bibliog­ra­phy [LINK]

Ap­prov­ing re­in­forces low-effort behaviors

Ego syn­tonic thoughts and values

How to get use­ful work out of the­olo­gians [LINK]

How to solve the na­tional debt deadlock

The im­por­tance of Not Get­ting the Joke

Ex­per­i­ment: Psy­cho­an­a­lyze Me

[SEQ RERUN] Ab­sence of Ev­i­dence Is Ev­i­dence of Absence

Meta: How do I nav­i­gate to see my old­est com­ments?

Robopoca­lypse au­thor cites Yud­kowsky’s pa­per­clip scenario

Relink: Why and how to de­bate charitably

Meetup : Weekly Berkeley Meetup—Karaoke!

The limits of introspection

Meetup : First San Diego, CA, USA meetup

Posts with com­ments crash (bug’s prob­a­bly in com­ment ren­der­ing). The com­ment rss works.

Meetup : Hous­ton Meetup

I’m bro­ken...?

Meetup : Irv­ine Meetup Wed­nes­day July 20

Prefer­ence For (Many) Fu­ture Worlds

[SEQ RERUN] I Defy the Data!

To what de­gree do we have goals?

En­hanced brain con­nec­tivity in long-term med­i­ta­tion prac­ti­tion­ers

A study in Science on mem­ory conformity

Study shows med­i­ta­tion may have po­ten­tial to change the phys­i­cal struc­ture of the brain

AGI/​FAI The­o­rist for Hire

I just donated to the SIAI.

Ra­tion­al­ist Judo, or Us­ing the Availa­bil­ity Heuris­tic to Win

Dec­i­mal digit com­pu­ta­tions as a test­ing ground for rea­son­ing about probabilities

Meetup in San Diego, CA, USA

What are some good sur­vey ques­tions on a ra­tio­nal­ity web­site (like Gene Ex­pres­sion)? Razib would like some input

My true rejection

Ra­tion­al­ity Mar­ket Research

Smart, (young), am­bi­tious and clue­less—what to do to max­i­mize good­ness?

Ra­tion­al­ist ap­proach to de­vel­op­ing Writ­ing skills

Cog­ni­tive Load from sim­ple computations

Yet an­other cog­ni­tive bi­ases book

Meetup : Ban­ga­lore: Au­gust Meetup

Stan­ford Pri­son Retrospective