Urges vs. Goals: The anal­ogy to an­ti­ci­pa­tion and belief

Sunk Costs Fal­lacy Fallacy

Draw­ing Work­shop in NYC: Gaug­ing Interest

Michael Niel­sen ex­plains Judea Pearl’s causality

Think­ing Bayesi­an­i­cally, with Lojban

Rais­ing aware­ness of ex­is­ten­tial risks—per­haps ex­plain­ing at “per­son­ally stock­ing canned food” level?

Meetup : Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity meet-up No.2

Could Dem­ocri­tus have pre­dicted in­tel­li­gence ex­plo­sion?

[SEQ RERUN] Re­place the Sym­bol with the Substance

How do I “test it”?

How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious

Meetup : Hous­ton Meetup − 1/​29

Meetup : Need more peo­ple for Van­cou­ver meetup

Tell LessWrong about your char­i­ta­ble donations

[LINK] Neu­ro­scien­tists Find That Sta­tus within Groups Can Affect IQ

Meetup : West LA Meetup 01-25-2012

The Hu­man’s Hid­den Utility Func­tion (Maybe)

How would you talk a stranger off the ledge?

Meetup : Melbourne prac­ti­cal ra­tio­nal­ity meetup

Meetup : Water­loo Meetup

Meetup : Salt Lake City LW Meetup #2 Logistics

[SEQ RERUN] Ta­boo Your Words

Meetup : On­go­ing Ohio Meetup

Fis­sure opens in chess AI scene [link]

Ques­tion Re­gard­ing Motorcycling

Star­tups as a Ra­tion­al­ity Test Bed?

Study Hacks on Con­ve­nience as Anti-Productivity

AI Box Role Plays

Neu­rolog­i­cal re­al­ity of hu­man thought and de­ci­sion mak­ing; im­pli­ca­tions for ra­tio­nal­ism.

The Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute is hiring an ex­ec­u­tive as­sis­tant near Berkeley

[SEQ RERUN] Empty Labels

[Link] The Hy­bo­rian Age

The hun­dred-room problem

New x-risk organizations

Poli­ti­ci­ans’ fam­ily as signalling

The Dark Arts: A Begin­ner’s Guide

Some po­ten­tial dan­gers of ra­tio­nal­ity training

[SEQ RERUN] The Ar­gu­ment from Com­mon Usage

Dooms­day Ar­gu­ment with Strong Self-Sam­pling Assumption

Limits on self-optimisation

A Sim­ple Solu­tion to the FAI Problem

A Word to the Resourceful

Crocker’s Rules: How far to take it?

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Port­land, Berkleley, San Diego, Pitts­burgh, Hous­ton, Seat­tle, Madi­son, Fort Col­lins, Syd­ney, Melbourne

Pre­dic­tionBook: Fea­ture Re­quest and Bug Report

[SEQ RERUN] Feel the Meaning

Break­ing the chain of akrasia

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Quixey Challenge—Fix a bug in 1 minute, win $100. Refer a win­ner, win $50.

Zeck­hauser’s roulette