Zero-sum con­ver­sion: a cute trick for de­ci­sion problems

Many-wor­lds im­plies the fu­ture mat­ters more

What are the bound­aries?

The Mere Cable Chan­nel Ad­di­tion Paradox

[SEQ RERUN] Sort­ing Peb­bles Into Cor­rect Heaps

Neu­ro­science ba­sics for LessWrongians

Ar­ti­cle about LW: Faith, Hope, and Sin­gu­lar­ity: En­ter­ing the Ma­trix with New York’s Fu­tur­ist Set

Meetup : Hu­man­ist Open Mic, NYC, Wed­nes­day Au­gust 1st

A De­scrip­tion of Entropy

Leaps of faith in col­lege selection

Max Autonomy

[SEQ RERUN] Insep­a­rably Right; or, Joy in the Merely Good

Meetup : Berkeley meetup: Ra­tion­al­ist group therapy

Meetup : Berkeley meetup: Ra­tion­al­ist group therapy

[Paper] Si­mu­la­tion of a com­plete cell

Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 7/​23/​12

[SEQ RERUN] Mo­ral­ity as Fixed Computation

Meetup : Madi­son: Team Prob­lem-Solving

Game The­ory As A Dark Art

Evolu­tion­ary psy­chol­ogy as “the truth-kil­ler”

A Mar­riage Cer­e­mony for Aspiring Rationalists

Upload­ing: what about the car­bon-based ver­sion?

[SEQ RERUN] Con­tam­i­nated by Optimism

[Link] You Have No Idea How Wrong You Are

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC Bi­ased Boardgames meetup

The Per­cep­tion-Ac­tion Cycle

Meetup : Brus­sels meetup

Meetup : Cam­bridge, MA Meetup

Meetup : Dublin, Ire­land Meetup

[SEQ RERUN] An­thro­po­mor­phic Optimism

HP:MOR and the Ra­dio Fallacy

Work on Se­cu­rity In­stead of Friendli­ness?

[SEQ RERUN] No Log­i­cal Pos­i­tivist I

[LINK] In­fer­ring the rate of psy­chopa­thy from road­kill experiment

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

Mass-mur­der­ing neu­ro­science Ph.D. student

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Brus­sels, Sydney

[link] Pre­pared to wait? New re­search challenges the idea that we favour small re­wards now over big­ger later

Link: Glial cells shown to be in­volved in work­ing memory

SI’s Sum­mer 2012 Match­ing Drive Ends July 31st

[SEQ RERUN] The Com­edy of Behaviorism

[LINK] An­chor­ing Bias In Medicine (NYT)

Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute—main­stream me­dia ex­po­sure in Australia

Im­perfect Vot­ing Systems

[LINK] Us­ing pro­ce­du­ral mem­ory to thwart “rub­ber-hose crypt­anal­y­sis”

In Defense of Tone Arguments

The Prob­lem Of Apostasy

Meetup : Madi­son: Rough Numbers

Log­ging progress im­prov­ing con­scien­tious­ness and over­com­ing pro­cras­ti­na­tion at LessWrong

[SEQ RERUN] De­tached Lever Fallacy