VNM agents and lot­ter­ies in­volv­ing an in­finite num­ber of pos­si­ble outcomes

Why Poli­tics are Im­por­tant to Less Wrong...

[Link] You May Already Be Aware of Your Cog­ni­tive Biases

CEA does not seem to be cred­ibly high impact

[Links] Brain map­ping/​em­u­la­tion news

The Logic of the Hy­poth­e­sis Test: A Steel Man

Utili­tar­i­anism twice fails

[SEQ RERUN] The Thing That I Protect

Meetup : Cam­bridge, UK LW Meetup [Read­ing Group, HAEFB-03]

sin­ginst read­ing recommendations

Strong­man­ning Pas­cal’s Mugging

Tu­tor­ing Small Groups of Chil­dren (for money)

De­sires You’re Not Think­ing About at the Moment

Cal­ibrat­ing Against Un­de­tectable Utilons and Goal Chang­ing Events (part1)

Think Like a Supervillain

[SEQ RERUN] Epi­logue: Atone­ment (8/​8)

Eth­i­cal heuristics

Meetup : RTLW HPMoR dis­cus­sion, chap­ters 39-43

[LINK] Fate of our meta-sta­ble Uni­verse: kil­led by a vac­uum bub­ble?

Vi­sual Men­tal Imagery Training

Poli­tics Fil­ter­ing and Higher Stan­dard Discussions

Search­ing for con­se­quence-imag­in­ing games for children

Meetup : Effec­tive Altru­ism Din­ner Party

Are coin flips quan­tum ran­dom to my con­scious brain-parts?

Meetup : Ber­lin Meetup

Meetup : Van­cou­ver!

[SEQ RERUN] True End­ing: Sacri­fi­cial Fire

Falsifi­able and non-Falsifi­able Ideas

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC Show and tell meetup: Eco­nomics II

Meetup : Melbourne, prac­ti­cal rationality

Giv­ing What We Can Septem­ber In­tern­ship

Imi­ta­tion is the Sincer­est Form of Argument

[SEQ RERUN] Nor­mal End­ing: Last Tears

Meetup : Shang­hai Meetup Wed­nes­day, 7:30

[SEQ RERUN] Three Wor­lds De­cide (5/​8)

Help me re­fac­tor my life

What’s your hy­po­thet­i­cal apos­tasy?

[SEQ RERUN] In­ter­lude with the Confessor

Great ra­tio­nal­ity posts by LWers not posted to LW

Open thread, Fe­bru­ary 15-28, 2013

Cryo: Le­gal fees of $2500

Meetup : Toronto—What’s all this about Bayesian Prob­a­bil­ity and stuff?!

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Ber­lin, Cam­bridge UK, London

What are your rules of thumb?

Is pro­tect­ing your­self from your own bi­ases self-defeat­ing?

Un­in­ten­tional bayesian

The Virtue of Compartmentalization

Three Axes of Prohibitions

[SEQ RERUN] The Su­per Happy Peo­ple (3/​8)

Robot ethics returns