Does an­chor­ing on dead­lines cause pro­cras­ti­na­tion?

The idiot sa­vant AI isn’t an idiot

Valuable eco­nomics knowl­edge available, iron­i­cally, for free

Meetup : Cinc­in­nati: Fi­nan­cial optimisation

In­stru­men­tal ra­tio­nal­ity/​self help re­sources

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 24, chap­ter 95

Model Com­bi­na­tion and Adjustment

See Eliezer talk with PZ My­ers and David Brin (and me) about im­mor­tal­ity this Sunday

Three Ap­proaches to “Friendli­ness”

Meetup : Durham NC/​Tri­an­gle Area: Ra­tion­al­ity Check­list Workshop

Meetup : West LA Meetup—The Great­est Good for the Great­est Number

One is­sue: teach 10 or sway 200?

An un­usual counterargument

HIKE: A Group Dy­nam­ics Case Study

Com­par­a­tive and ab­solute ad­van­tage in AI

An At­tempt at Prefer­ence Uncer­tainty Us­ing VNM

Meetup : South­east Michigan

Akra­sia Tac­tics Re­view 2: The Akra­sia Strikes Back

Re­cent MIRI work­shop re­sults?

For Hap­piness, Keep a Grat­i­tude Journal

Open thread, July 16-22, 2013

Per­son­ally miti­gat­ing ex­is­ten­tial risk

Semi-open thread: blackmail

Meetup : Melbourne So­cial Meetup

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, July 16-31

Dul­ler black­mail definitions

Count­ess and Baron at­tempt to define black­mail, fail

Notes/​blog posts on two re­cent MIRI papers

Meetup : Bratis­lava Meetup V.

Writ­ing Style and the Typ­i­cal Mind Fallacy

To re­duce as­tro­nom­i­cal waste: take your time, then go very fast

Some high­lights from Nate Silver’s “The Sig­nal and the Noise”

Meetup : Lon­don So­cial—Direct Sun­light 2, Vi­tamin Booga­loo—July 21st

“Stupid” ques­tions thread

Weekly LW Meetups

Cos­mic ex­pan­sion vs up­loads eco­nomics?

[LINK] If cor­re­la­tion doesn’t im­ply cau­sa­tion, then what does?

Meetup : [Colum­bus] Up­com­ing Work­shop Topics

The WASH-1400 Re­ac­tor Safety Study

[META] Open threads (and repos­i­tory threads) are un­der­uti­lized.

Less Wrong Lon­don New Ar­rival In­te­gra­tion Task Force

Meetup : [Moscow] The Meet up

Seed Study: Polypha­sic Sleep in Ten Steps

Meetup : Durham/​RTLW HPMoR dis­cus­sion, ch. 77-78

Svante Ar­rhe­nius’s Pre­dic­tion of Cli­mate Change

[LINK] Hy­poth­e­sis about the mechanism for stor­ing long-term memory

Against easy su­per­in­tel­li­gence: the un­fore­seen fric­tion argument

The failure of counter-ar­gu­ments argument

Help please! Mak­ing a good choice be­tween two jobs

[LINK] XKCD Comic #1236, Seashells and Bayes’ Theorem