[Link] Is the En­dow­ment Effect Real?

Ex­po­nent of Desire

How much do you value your cur­rent iden­tity vs. your life?

Givewell Sur­vey—Op­por­tu­nity to in­fluence their research

Self-as­sess­ment in ex­pert AI predictions

Meetup : RTLW Thurs­day Meetup

[Link] We aren’t the world: Hu­mans differ more than pre­vi­ously believed

[LINK] Western­ers may be ter­rible ex­per­i­men­tal psy­chol­ogy subjects

The Cen­ter for Sus­tain­able Nanotechnology

Me­mory, nu­tri­tion, mo­ti­va­tion, and genes

[SEQ RERUN] The Evolu­tion­ary-Cog­ni­tive Boundary

As­teroids and space­ships are ki­netic bombs and how to pre­vent catastrophe

Sin­gu­lar­ity Fiction

What Deon­tol­ogy gets right

Meetup : Sun­day Meetup at Buf­falo Labs

Meetup : Sun­day Meetup at Buf­falo Lab

Why Bayes? A Wise Ruling

Meetup : Van­cou­ver Per­sonal Productivity

New­comb’s Prob­lem dis­solved?

Can bi­ases be used to en­courage ra­tio­nal think­ing?

[SEQ RERUN] Cyn­i­cism in Ev-Psych (and Econ)

How do you not be a hater?

Meetup : Toronto—The na­ture of dis­course; what works, what doesn’t

[Link] Colon­i­sa­tion of Venus

Let’s make a “Ra­tional Im­mor­tal­ist Se­quence”. Suggested Struc­ture.

Ex­trap­o­lat­ing an Ob­scu­ran­tist’s Volition

Im­prov­ing Hu­man Ra­tion­al­ity Through Cog­ni­tive Change (in­tro)

[SEQ RERUN] In­form­ers and Persuaders

Dis­cus­sion: Which fu­tures are good enough?

Great ra­tio­nal­ity posts in the OB archives

Does evolu­tion se­lect for mor­tal­ity?

Call for dis­cus­sion: Sig­nal­ling and/​vs. accomplishment

[Link] To­masik’s “Quan­tify with Care”

[SEQ RERUN] (Mo­ral) Truth in Fic­tion?

Di­sor­ga­nized col­lec­tion growth

Meetup : Brus­sels meetup

“What-the-hell” Cog­ni­tive Failure Mode: a Separate Bias or a Com­bi­na­tion of Other Bi­ases?

Meetup : Mu­nich Meetup (up­dated)

An at­tempt to dis­solve sub­jec­tive ex­pec­ta­tion and per­sonal identity

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Bielefeld, Brus­sels, Buf­falo, Cam­bridge MA, Cam­bridge UK, Cinc­in­nati, Frank­furt, Mon­treal, Moscow, Pur­due, Salt Lake City, Van­cou­ver, Wash­ing­ton DC

Meetup : Moscow, Ex­pand­ing rationality

[SEQ RERUN] …And Say No More Of It

Cal­ibrat­ing Against Un­de­tectable Utilons and Goal Chang­ing Events (part2and1)

Recom­mended read­ing on the ethics of An­i­mal Cog­ni­tive Enhancement

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