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

RAND Health In­surance Ex­per­i­ment critiques

Brain struc­ture and the halo effect

Mini-re­view: ‘Judg­ment and De­ci­sion Mak­ing as a Skill’

[LINK] The NYT on Every­day Habits

SI wants to hire a re­mote LaTeX guru

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Brus­sels, Hous­ton, Madi­son, Melbourne, Moscow, Philadelphia (2), Sydney

Not in­sane. Un­sane.

Im­pres­sions from a panel dis­cus­sion on AGI

A new (?) an­thropic prin­ci­ple, and mo­ti­va­tion thereof

Meetup : Melbourne prac­ti­cal ra­tio­nal­ity meetup

Meetup : Buenos Aires meetup: Satur­day, Fe­bru­ary 25th, 4pm

Meetup : At the Univer­sity of Chicago

Hassa Deega Ebowai or the para­dox of re­li­gious­ness in front of adversity

[LINK] What’s New? Ex­u­ber­ance for Novelty Has Benefits

A defense of for­mal philosophy

Water Fluoridation

Seek­ing education

Epistemic se­cu­rity: ex­am­ple from ex­per­i­men­tal physics

[link] 101 Fas­ci­nat­ing Brain Blogs

Hearsay, Dou­ble Hearsay, and Bayesian Updates

Coun­ter­fac­tual Coalitions

Pos­si­ble Im­pli­ca­tions of the neu­ral retro­trans­posons to the future

Tel Aviv Self-Im­prove­ment Meetup Group

The math­e­mat­ics of re­duced im­pact: help needed

[LINK] Com­puter pro­gram that aces ‘guess next’ in IQ test

Hy­po­thet­i­cal scenario

Em­piri­cism in Gameplay

[SEQ RERUN] Words as Men­tal Paint­brush Handles

Prob­lem posting

test 5 Ignore

test3

Trou­bles With CEV Part1 - CEV Sequence

This is a test

What is the ad­van­tage of the Kol­mogorov com­plex­ity prior?

Meetup : Austin, TX TCDS Experiment

Pool­ing re­sources for valuable ac­tu­ar­ial calculations

Meetup : Fort Col­lins, Colorado Meetup Wedne­day 7pm

How to mea­sure pro­cras­ti­na­tion?

Any­one want a LW En­hance­ment Suite?

Open Thread, Fe­bru­ary 15-29, 2012

[SEQ RERUN] Con­di­tional In­de­pen­dence, and Naive Bayes

Hard philos­o­phy prob­lems to test peo­ple’s in­tel­li­gence?

Avoid mis­in­ter­pret­ing your emotions

The Fu­ture of Education

On What Selves Are—CEV sequence

[LINK] The Hacker Shelf, free books.

“The Book Of Mor­mon” or Belief In Belief, The Musical

What hap­pens when your be­liefs fully propagate

[SEQ RERUN] Search­ing for Bayes-Structure