On Say­ing the Obvious

My Al­gorithm for Beat­ing Procrastination

Avoid mis­in­ter­pret­ing your emotions

The Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute needs re­mote re­searchers (writ­ing skill not re­quired)

Feed the spinoff heuris­tic!

Get Curious

Quan­tified Health Prize re­sults announced

Hearsay, Dou­ble Hearsay, and Bayesian Updates

Diseased dis­ci­plines: the strange case of the in­verted chart

Topics from “Pro­ce­du­ral Knowl­edge Gaps”

Fire­place Delu­sions [LINK]

Sticky threads?

Acausal romance

Am­bi­guity in cog­ni­tive bias names; a refresher

New book from lead­ing neu­ro­scien­tist in sup­port of cry­on­ics and mind uploading

For­mu­las of ar­ith­metic that be­have like de­ci­sion agents

[link] How habits con­trol our be­hav­ior, and how to mod­ify them

Beyond Rea­son­able Doubt? - Richard Dawk­ins [link]

[LINK] Re­fut­ing com­mon ob­jec­tions to cog­ni­tive enhancement

I be­lieve it’s doublethink

Is Sunk Cost Fal­lacy a Fal­lacy?

Two Kinds of Ir­ra­tional­ity and How to Avoid One of Them

Coun­ter­fac­tual Coalitions

What hap­pens when your be­liefs fully propagate

[Link] Cog­ni­tive Sciences Stack Ex­change opened

[Link]: 80,000 hours blog

Mini-re­view: ‘Prov­ing His­tory: Bayes’ The­o­rem and the Quest for the His­tor­i­cal Je­sus’

[LINK] Shut­ting down the de­struc­tive in­ter­nal monologue through tran­scra­nial di­rect cur­rent stimulation

Pos­si­ble Im­pli­ca­tions of the neu­ral retro­trans­posons to the future

Draft of Muehlhauser & Sala­mon, ‘In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sion: Ev­i­dence and Im­port’

Mike Dar­win on the Less Wrong intelligentsia

Longevity Insurance

less­wrong.ru do­main for trans­la­tion pro­ject?

Ele­va­tor pitches/​re­sponses for ra­tio­nal­ity /​ AI

Look­ing for in­for­ma­tion on cryonics

Im­pres­sions from a panel dis­cus­sion on AGI

Knowl­edge ready for Ankification

von Neu­mann probes and Dyson spheres: what ex­plo­ra­tory en­g­ineer­ing can tell us about the Fermi paradox

On­line ed­u­ca­tion and Conscientiousness

Pool­ing re­sources for valuable ac­tu­ar­ial calculations

Any­one want a LW En­hance­ment Suite?

My Ele­va­tor Pitch for FAI

Brain shrink­age in hu­mans over past ~20 000 years—what did we lose?

My sum­mary of Eliezer’s po­si­tion on free will

Giv­ing What We Can and 80,000 Hours are re­cruit­ing!

Au­to­matic pro­gram­ming, an example

Se­cond or­der logic, in first or­der set-the­ory: what gives?

A brief tu­to­rial on prefer­ences in AI

[LINK] The Hacker Shelf, free books.

What is the ad­van­tage of the Kol­mogorov com­plex­ity prior?