Cry­on­ics priors

What’s your #1 rea­son to care about AI risk?

On the Im­por­tance of Sys­tem­atic Bi­ases in Science

Meetup : Bielefeld Meetup, Jan­uary 23rd

[SEQ RERUN] The Uses of Fun (The­ory)

How con­fi­dent are you in the Atomic The­ory of Mat­ter?

Long-chain cor­re­la­tion: lead paint and crime

Meet up in­ter­est: Vienna, March

[SEQ RERUN] Free to Optimize

Michael Vas­sar’s Edge con­tri­bu­tion: summary

Meetup : Third Pur­due Meetup

Meetup : Van­cou­ver Bias and Such

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Durham, Lon­don, Melbourne, Pur­due, Van­cou­ver, Wash­ing­ton DC

TIL in Med­i­cal School—Doc­tors have myths too.

Ban­ish the Clippy-cre­at­ing Bias De­mon!

My sim­ple hack for in­creased alert­ness and im­proved cog­ni­tive func­tion­ing: very bright light

Meetup : Ber­lin so­cial meetup

[SEQ RERUN] A New Day

Meetup : Melbourne, prac­ti­cal rationality

Gen­er­al­iz­ing from One Trend

Out­line of Pos­si­ble Sources of Values

Up­date Then Forget

Meetup : Ohio LessWrong in Cincinnati

Map and ter­ri­tory vi­sual presentation

[SEQ RERUN] Dun­bar’s Function

Meetup : Lon­don Meetup 27th Jan

Meetup : Durham: Cal­ibra­tion Exercises

Quan­tify­ing wisdom

Assess­ing Kurzweil: the results

[Link] Noam Chom­sky Killed Aaron Schwartz

[Link] Self­hood bias

Meetup : LessWrong Mon­treal—So­cial Resilience

Meetup : West LA Meetup—Type 1 to Type 2 Bridging

[SEQ RERUN] Am­pu­ta­tion of Destiny

Is there an au­to­matic Chrome-to-Anki-2 ex­ten­sion or solu­tion?

Sugges­tion: site-wide taboos

Meetup : Buf­falo Meetup

Study on depression

Mo­ral­ity: The­ory and Practice

The “Friend­ship is Witchcraft” ex­pec­ta­tion test

[LINK] Choles­terol and mortality

Open Thread, Jan­uary 16-31, 2013

Assess­ing Kurzweil: the gory details

Dis­cus­sion of LW go­ing on in felicifia

[SEQ RERUN] Can’t Un­birth a Child

Meetup : Se­cond Pur­due Meetup

[Link] Aschwin de Wolf on Chem­i­cal Brain Preservation

Meetup : Less Wrong Dublin

‘Life ex­ists be­yond 50’

Evolu­tion, Sex, and Gen­der, Not to Men­tion Research