Help me tran­si­tion to hu­man so­ciety!

Devel­op­ing Empathy

What if sym­pa­thy de­pends on an­thro­po­mor­phiz­ing?

Dun­geons and Dis­course implementation

Be Not Averse to Lost Purposes

Those who as­pire to perfection

[SEQ RERUN] Hind­sight Bias

Meetup : West LA Meetup 07-26-2011

Tak­ing chances with dinner

Meetup : *Monthly* Berkeley Meetup

Credit card that donates to SIAI.

Meetup : Less Wrong in Sydney

Scott Aaron­son’s lec­ture on free will

Ex­pe­rience with dual n-back?

The Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute is ex­pand­ing its re­search pro­gram at very lit­tle cost. Boo-yah!

Sen­sory modal­ity for code

How To Copy Less Wrong Design

Only self­im­mo­late if you care about what for­eign­ers think

[SEQ RERUN] One Ar­gu­ment Against An Army

Less Wrong in Other Languages

Free (old) sci­en­tific pa­pers [Link]

[Link] “Upload”, a video-con­fer­ence be­tween a girl and her dead grandfather

Bayesian Con­spir­acy @ Burn­ing Man 2011

Meetup : Irv­ine Meetup Wed­nes­day July 27

Meetup : Biweekly Sun­day Seat­tle meetup: talk­ing about identity

Cheap signaling

Work­ing mem­ory and driving

Ten­den­cies in re­flec­tive equilibrium

Se­crets of the eliminati

[SEQ RERUN] Up­date Your­self Incrementally

Meetup : RESCHEDULED: Cam­bridge Less Wrong Meetup Au­gust 21st with Ken Hay­worth of the Brain Preser­va­tion Foundation

Pi­geons out­perform hu­mans at the Monty Hall Dilemma [LINK]

LW’s front page freezes, hangs and bugs on Chrome

LW sys­temic bias: US centrism

LW’s image prob­lem: “Ra­tion­al­ity” is suspicious

GiveWell in­ter­view with ma­jor SIAI donor Jaan Tallinn

Meetup : Re­jec­tion Ther­apy in DC

Meetup : DC Meetup Learns De­ci­sion Theory

Levels of Or­ga­ni­za­tion in Gen­eral Intelligence

Meetup : Phoenix, AZ Meetup on TDT

Con­nec­tion­ism: Model­ing the mind with neu­ral networks

Illus­tra­tor needed: In­tu­itive Bayes 2.0

[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?