[Link] Knowl­edge, not opinion, in­for­ma­tion ex­trac­tion, not persuasion

Cog­ni­tive bias and conservatism

[Link] No­bel lau­re­ate challenges psy­chol­o­gists to clean up their act

[Link] The real end of science

Par­ent­ing and Happiness

Tak­ing “cor­re­la­tion does not im­ply cau­sa­tion” back from the internet

Meetup : Differ­ent lo­ca­tion: Berkeley meetup

[SEQ RERUN] In­ner Goodness

When does some­thing stop be­ing a “self-con­sis­tent idea” and be­come sci­en­tific fact?

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Oc­to­ber 2012

The Use­ful Idea of Truth

The difficulty in pre­dict­ing AI, in three lines

Meetup : Fort Col­lins, Colorado Meetup Thurs­day 7pm *New Place*

Meetup : Bielefeld Meetup, Oc­to­ber 9th

Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 10/​1/​12

[SEQ RERUN] Which Parts Are “Me”?

[LINK] Higher in­tel­li­gence cor­re­lates with greater cooperation

Oc­to­ber 2012 Me­dia Thread

Open Thread, Oc­to­ber 1-15, 2012

[SEQ RERUN] Ethics Notes

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign, IL

Meetup : DC Meetup: Boardgames

Meetup : NYC Hu­man­ist Open Mic (New Lo­ca­tion, peo­ple un­der 21 now al­lowed)

Mo­rale man­age­ment for entrepreneurs

Fe­male Test Sub­ject—Con­vince Me To Get Cryo

[SEQ RERUN] Prices or Bind­ings?

In­tro­duc­tion to Con­nec­tion­ist Model­ling of Cog­ni­tive Pro­cesses: a chap­ter by chap­ter re­view

LINK “Poli­tics is the Mind­kil­ler” a la Cracked.com

Noz­ick’s pro­posed rules for ex­trap­o­lat­ing your preferences

MIT Challenge complete

Cry­onic Re­vival Mu­tual As­sis­tance Pact?

[SEQ RERUN] Eth­i­cal Injunctions

Meetup : Zendo in the West Loop

How can a high school stu­dent learn physics and math while cop­ing with high school?

[LINK] Law Goes Meta

Yale Creates First Self-Aware Robot?

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Ber­lin, Port­land, Ur­bana-Cham­paign IL, Vienna

[SEQ RERUN] Eth­i­cal Inhibitions

Con­fab­u­la­tion Bias

EY “Poli­tics is the Mind Killer” sight­ing at Wash­ing­ton Ex­am­iner and Rea­son.com

Prob­a­bil­ity of Cry­onic Suc­cess?

From First Principles

[Link] So­cial De­sir­a­bil­ity Bias vs. In­tel­li­gence Research

[SEQ RERUN] Pro­tected From Myself

Could evolu­tion have se­lected for moral re­al­ism?

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC: Choice Blindness

Why aren’t we pool­ing our knowl­edge-re­sources yet?

Causal­ity: a chap­ter by chap­ter review

[Poll] Less Wrong and Main­stream Philos­o­phy: How Differ­ent are We?

Meetup : Durham NC HPMoR Dis­cus­sion, chap­ters 4-7