A Valuable As­set in Your In­tel­lec­tual Port­fo­lio is Not the Same as a Good Guide

What ‘be­liev­ing’ usu­ally is

synapse renor­mal­iza­tion—an­other rea­son to sleep more than min­i­mum-REM

Please do not down­vote ev­ery com­ment or post some­one has ever made as a re­tal­i­a­tion tac­tic.

For fic­tion: How could alien minds differ from hu­man minds?

[SEQ RERUN] An­chor­ing and Adjustment

Lon­don meetup, Sun­day 2011-08-21 14:00, near Holborn

What a prac­ti­cal plan for Friendly AI looks like

Meetup : Irv­ine Meetup Wed­nes­day Au­gust 24

[SEQ RERUN] Why is the Fu­ture So Ab­surd?

Table of bi­ases, the nor­ma­tive mod­els they vi­o­late, and their explanations

A Crash Course in the Neu­ro­science of Hu­man Motivation

Good re­source for mar­ket­ing re­search?

Meetup : Austin, TX

Spaced Rep­e­ti­tion liter­a­ture re­view prize: And the win­ner is...

Meetup : West LA Meetup 08-23-2011

Meetup : Sin­ga­pore Septem­ber 2011

LessWrong as place for sci­en­tifi­cally liter­ate advice

[SEQ RERUN] Availability

Ques­tion about meetup lo­ca­tion ad­dress for­mat ..

[LINK] Wired—“New Chip Bor­rows Brain’s Com­put­ing Tricks”

Why We Can’t Take Ex­pected Value Es­ti­mates Liter­ally (Even When They’re Un­bi­ased)

Meetup : Chicago Meetup At State and Elm, Au­gust 27th

(US only) Donate $2 to char­ity (bing re­wards)

Meetup : DC Meetup: NoVa, Ra­tion­al­ity Games

[Link] Givewell: Why We Can’t Take Ex­pected Value Es­ti­mates Literally

[LINK] NYTimes es­say on willpower, based on an up­com­ing Baumeister book

Need­ing Bet­ter PR

Meetup : Hous­ton so­cial meetup

[SEQ RERUN] Ab­sur­dity Heuris­tic, Ab­sur­dity Bias

Will DNA Anal­y­sis Make Poli­tics Less of a Mind-Killer?

[LINK] Brief Dis­cus­sion of As­teroid & Nu­clear Risk from pa­per by Hellman

LINK: Ben Go­ertzel; Does Hu­man­ity Need an “AI-Nanny”?

Need Help With Decision

[SEQ RERUN] “Science” as Cu­ri­os­ity-Stopper

New­comb and Procrastination

[Link] TED Talk on Per­ceived Value

Test to see if “c” cur­rently works in top level posts

That let­ter af­ter B is not ren­der­ing on Less Wrong?

Leav­ing out the dead

The Goal of the Bayesian Conspiracy

Are Deon­tolog­i­cal Mo­ral Judg­ments Ra­tion­al­iza­tions?

Anki deck for Cog­ni­tive Science in One Lesson

Short & silly su­per­in­tel­li­gence fic: “Ax­iom Chains”

Meetup : Irv­ine Meetup Wed­nes­day Au­gust 17

Hu­mans: Not Carved from Marble

[SEQ RERUN] Ex­plain/​Wor­ship/​Ig­nore?

Cached Phrases

[link] Friendly AI and Utilitarianism

[Link] Scott Aaron­son on Why Philoso­phers Should Care About Com­pu­ta­tional Complexity