An in­ducible group-”med­i­ta­tion” for use in ra­tio­nal­ity dojos

[SEQ RERUN] Some­thing to Protect

[META] In­tro­duc­tion thread at­ti­tudes and discussions

An eth­i­cal de­bate that’s turn­ing very sour

Ad­vice Re­quest: Ba­con­mas Website

Jan­uary 2012 Me­dia Thread

How con­fi­dent should we be?

New­comb’s prob­lem—one boxer’s in­tro­spec­tion.

Ra­tion­al­ity quotes Jan­uary 2012

New Year’s Pre­dic­tion Thread (2012)

So You Want to Save the World

Jan­uary 1-14, 2012 Open Thread

[SEQ RERUN] Trust in Bayes

Meta anal­y­sis of Writ­ing Therapy

Role-re­ver­sal ed­u­ca­tion for math and sci­ence stu­dents (pi­lot pro­ject)

Eva­po­ra­tive cool­ing of group be­liefs: cur­rent example

[Link] So­cial dance and cog­ni­tive main­te­nance

[link] A at­tempt to re­duce Epistemic Vi­cious­ness in the mar­tial arts/​ an em­piri­cal anal­y­sis of WSD train­ing.

In­tu­ition and Mathematics

Best wishes for 2012

The bias shield

[wild non­sense] How about mar­ket­ing ra­tio­nal­ity along the lines of “Feel­ing Ra­tional”?

Why some peo­ple seem to be proud of their ig­no­rance?

[SEQ RERUN] The “In­tu­itions” Be­hind “Utili­tar­i­anism”

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[LINK] “Pre­dic­tion Au­dits” for Nate Silver, Dave Weigel

Last chance to donate for 2011

[RESEARCH] Mar­ijuana may pre­vent Alzheimer’s disease

Weekly LW Meetups

I’d like to talk to some LGBT LWers.

What are good apps for ra­tio­nal­ists?

Would a FAI re­ward us for helping cre­ate it?

The Value (and Danger) of Ritual

[SEQ RERUN] Cir­cu­lar Altruism

Affect­ing everything

Stupid Ques­tions Open Thread

“Mis­be­hav­ing Machines: The Emu­lated Brains of Tran­shu­man­ist Dreams”, Corry Shores

Am­bi­ent con­trol of the ar­ith­meti­cal hi­er­ar­chy?

Smart and un­der 20? Peter Thiel wants to pay you to not go to school.

Are Yearly/​Monthly Book Sugges­tion Threads a Good Idea?

Should we dis­count ex­traor­di­nary im­pli­ca­tions?

Ra­tion­al­ity of some­times miss­ing the point of the stated ques­tion, and of cer­tain type of defen­sive reasoning

Why would a free hu­man so­ciety be in agree­ment on how to al­ter it­self?

Ne­gen­tropy Over­rated?

[SEQ RERUN] Against Dis­count Rates

Meetup : First Philadelphia Meetup of 2012

Less Wrong men­tor­ing thread

Meetup : San Diego ex­per­i­men­tal meetup

For-Profit Ra­tion­al­ity Training

[Link] Opac­ity as a defense against bias?