New cen­sor­ship: against hy­po­thet­i­cal vi­o­lence against iden­ti­fi­able people

[LINK] Forty Years of String The­ory: Reflect­ing on the Foundations

Ri­tual Re­port 2012: Life, Death, Light, Dark­ness, and Love.

Thoughts on the Drake Equa­tion and the Great Filter

Meetup : Moscow: Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity in a New Year

In which I ask an in­ap­pro­pri­ate ques­tion...

[SEQ RERUN] Disjunc­tions, An­tipre­dic­tions, Etc.

So you think you un­der­stand Quan­tum Mechanics

Ed­u­ca­tion via Cell Phone in Africa

Meetup : Ber­lin Meetup: Bayes

UFAI can­not be the Great Filter

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 18, chap­ter 87

No ap­par­ent Dun­ning-Kruger effect for LW participation

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC meetup- new se­quence?

Im­pli­ca­tions of an in­finite ver­sus a finite universe

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Brus­sels, Durham, Lon­don, Melbourne, NYC, Pader­born, Vancouver

Dy­ing in Many Worlds

Against NHST

[SEQ RERUN] The Bad Guy Bias

new­comb’s altruism

Gun Con­trol: How would we know?

Be­ware Selec­tive Nihilism

[Link] ‘Some­thing feels wrong with the state of philos­o­phy to­day.’

Stan­dard and Non­stan­dard Numbers

Over­sim­plifi­ca­tion when gen­er­al­iz­ing from DNA?

The “Scary prob­lem of Qualia”

Nar­ra­tive, self-image, and self-communication

LessWrong Sur­vey Re­sults: Do Eth­i­cal The­o­ries Affect Be­hav­ior?

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, DC Meetup with Spe­cial Guest

Notes on Psychopathy

Meetup : Mont­pel­lier: Ten­ta­tive first meetup

Bound­ing the im­pact of AGI

Meetup : Durham LW discussion

On­tolog­i­cal Cri­sis in Humans

Ma­trix and In­spira­tional re­li­gious fiction

Car­ing about what hap­pens af­ter you die

That Thing That Happened

Meetup : West LA Meetup—Dark Arts

[SEQ RERUN] True Sources of Disagreement

CFAR’s Inau­gu­ral Fundrais­ing Drive

More Cry­on­ics Prob­a­bil­ity Estimates

Meetup : Berkeley: How Robot Cars Are Near

[Link] Re­think­ing the way col­leges teach crit­i­cal thinking

Statis­ti­cal checks on some so­cial science

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 17, chap­ter 86

Wanted: Ra­tion­al­ist Push­back (link)

[SEQ RERUN] Wrap­ping Up

Par­alleliz­ing Ra­tion­al­ity: How Should Ra­tion­al­ists Think in Groups?

A util­ity-max­i­miz­ing vari­ent of AIXI

A util­ity-max­i­miz­ing vari­ent of AIXI