Use Your Iden­tity Carefully

Hu­mans are util­ity monsters

How to Mea­sure Anything

What Bayesi­anism taught me

How I Am Productive

Up­date on es­tab­lish­ment of Cam­bridge’s Cen­tre for Study of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Where I’ve Changed My Mind on My Ap­proach to Spec­u­la­tive Causes

Com­mon sense as a prior

Real­ity is weirdly normal

Rais­ing nu­mer­ate children

To what de­gree do you model peo­ple as agents?

Im­prov­ing En­joy­ment and Re­ten­tion Read­ing Tech­ni­cal Literature

New Monthly Thread: Bragging

Al­gorith­mic Progress in Six Domains

One way to ma­nipu­late your level of ab­strac­tion re­lated to a task

How does MIRI Know it Has a Medium Prob­a­bil­ity of Suc­cess?

Bi­ases of In­tu­itive and Log­i­cal Thinkers

My daily re­flec­tion routine

En­gag­ing First In­tro­duc­tions to AI Risk

Should you work at 80,000 Hours?

How Effi­cient is the Char­i­ta­ble Mar­ket?

Another Anki deck for Less Wrong content

Does Check­ers have sim­pler rules than Go?

In­ter­nal and ex­ter­nal criticism

LW Melbourne: Re­port on Public Ra­tion­al­ity Lecture

Out­side View(s) and MIRI’s FAI Endgame

What should a col­lege stu­dent do to max­i­mize fu­ture earn­ings for effec­tive al­tru­ism?

Ge­nies and Wishes in the con­text of com­puter science

RapGe­nius + Se­quences = ?

How sure are you that brain em­u­la­tions would be con­scious?

The Re­but­tal Repository

New ar­ti­cle on in vitro iter­ated em­bryo selection

En­gag­ing In­tel­lec­tual Elites at Less Wrong

[LINK] EdTech startup hosts AI Hunger Games (cash prize $1k)

Why Pro­duc­tivity? Why Grat­i­tude?

[LINK] Ma­jor guide to supplements

Pro­posal: pe­ri­odic re­post of the Best Learn­ing resources

In­ter­est­ing new Pew Re­search study on Amer­i­can opinions about rad­i­cal life extension

Ra­tion­al­ist house­holds: What can Lon­don learn from its pre­de­ces­sors?

Less­wrong Philos­o­phy and Per­sonal Identity

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Au­gust 2013

Open Thread: How much strate­gic think­ing have you done re­cently?

[Link] AI ad­vances: com­put­ers can be al­most as funny as people

Some MIRI Work­shop Stuff

Meetup : Lon­don So­cial—The Un­wel­come but Prob­a­ble De­cline and Fall of Direct Sunlight

Meetup : [Bos­ton] Us­ing Causal Graphs to Un­der­stand Bias in the Med­i­cal Literature

What Would it Take to “Prove” a Spec­u­la­tive Cause?

Prac­ti­cal Limits to Giv­ing Now and The Haste Consideration

Trans­parency in safety-crit­i­cal systems

The Fermi para­dox as ev­i­dence against the likely­hood of un­friendly AI