Can we teach Ra­tion­al­ity at the Univer­sity of Red­dit?

Meetup : Ra­tional-Hu­man­ist Open Mic, NYC Septem­ber 5th

Risk aver­sion does not ex­plain peo­ple’s bet­ting behaviours

[Link] So­cial in­ter­ven­tions gone wrong

“Mea­sur­ing the dis­tri­bu­tion of spite­ful­ness”—link

LessWrong could grow a lot, but we’re do­ing it wrong.

[SEQ RERUN] Dreams of Friendliness

Tem­po­rary Hous­ing in the Bos­ton area

[SEQ RERUN] Qual­i­ta­tive Strate­gies of Friendliness

Scott Aaron­son’s cau­tious op­ti­mism for the MWI

How to get cry­ocras­ti­na­tors to ac­tu­ally sign up for cryonics

[Link] Red­dit, help me find some peace I’m dy­ing young

An an­gle of at­tack on Open Prob­lem #1

[SEQ RERUN] Harder Choices Mat­ter Less

En­joy solv­ing “im­pos­si­ble” prob­lems? Group pro­ject!

Pro­posed rewrites of LW home page, about page, and FAQ

Any LessWrongers go­ing to EMFCamp?

TLP: In­sight with­out Change

Meetup : Fort Col­lins, Colorado Meetup Thurs­day 7pm

Launch of the world’s first an­i­mal char­ity eval­u­a­tor: Effec­tive An­i­mal Activism

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Brus­sels, Dublin, Red­mond WA, Wash­ing­ton DC

[LINK] Cry­on­ics—with­out even trying

AI timeline pre­dic­tions: are we get­ting bet­ter?

Num­ber of Mem­bers on LessWrong

Num­ber of Mem­bers on LessWrong

Kelly Cri­te­ria and Two Envelopes

Who Wants To Start An Im­por­tant Startup?

Com­pe­tence in ex­perts: summary

Towards Safe Robots: Ap­proach­ing Asi­mov’s 1st Law

[LINK] SMBC comics: Ex­is­ten­tial Cri­sis Sally on “Is for­got­ten tor­ture real?”

[SEQ RERUN] Against Mo­dal Logics

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC TED talks Meetup

Luke is do­ing an AMA on Reddit

The weak­est ar­gu­ments for and against hu­man level AI

[SEQ RERUN] Dreams of AI Design

Let’s be friendly to our allies

Open Thread, Au­gust 16-31, 2012

Idle spec­u­la­tion about an­chor­ing and the Face­book IPO

Meetup : Berkeley meetup: Dis­cus­sion about startups

[LINK] The Cam­bridge Dec­la­ra­tion on Consciousness

[SEQ RERUN] Three Fal­la­cies of Teleology

Meetup : Melbourne so­cial meetup

Meetup : West LA Meetup—Ca­reer Op­ti­miza­tion (Em­pha­sis on Soft­ware)

Why Don’t Peo­ple Help Others More?

Meetup : Long­mont Colorado Meetup

Meetup : Meetup: South­west­ern Ohio

Cyn­i­cal ex­pla­na­tions of FAI crit­ics (in­clud­ing my­self)

Bayes for Schizophren­ics: Rea­son­ing in Delu­sional Disorders

[Link] The per­ils of “rea­son”

[SEQ RERUN] Mag­i­cal Categories