Com­mon sense as a prior

New Monthly Thread: Bragging

The Re­but­tal Repository

Meetup : Helsinki Meetup

Meetup: Philadelphia, Au­gust 11, games

Pro­posal: pe­ri­odic re­post of the Best Learn­ing resources

Who are some of the best writ­ers in his­tory?

Effec­tive Ra­tion­al­ity Train­ing Online

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

Meetup : Durham NC/​Tri­an­gle Area: “Ra­tion­al­ity is hard! Let’s do math” (Utility Func­tions/​Prospect The­ory)

Weekly LW Meetups

Great­est Philoso­pher in History

Meetup : West LA Meetup—Con­fess Your Un­pop­u­lar Opinion

Meetup : At­lanta LessWrong: Games Night

Ran­dom vari­ables and Ev­i­den­tial De­ci­sion Theory

[LINK] Bit­coins, “In­vest­ment of Money,” and Law

New ar­ti­cle on in vitro iter­ated em­bryo selection

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

Should you work at 80,000 Hours?

Mo­ti­va­tion and Mer­ciless Com­mit­ment Contracts

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

Meetup : Van­cou­ver!

Im­prov­ing En­joy­ment and Re­ten­tion Read­ing Tech­ni­cal Literature

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

How to Mea­sure Anything

Meetup : LessWrong Is­rael Septem­ber meetup

Meetup : LW Mu­nich Meetup in August

Meetup : LW Mu­nich Meetup in August

Open thread, Au­gust 5-11, 2013

Meetup : Saska­toon’s First Meetup!

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC books meetup

Cross­ing the ex­per­i­ments: a baby

Seek­ing a reader for LessWrong sequences

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC fun and games meetup

Al­gorith­mic Progress in Six Domains

Au­gust 2013 Me­dia Thread

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Au­gust 2013

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

Meetup : Vienna Meetup

Weekly LW Meetups

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Au­gust 1-15

The Fermi para­dox as ev­i­dence against the likely­hood of un­friendly AI

Meetup : Pic­nic au Parc de la Tête d’Or

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

Meetup : Van­cou­ver Open Discussion

RapGe­nius + Se­quences = ?

Com­mon Task Time Es­ti­ma­tion Repository

Q for GiveWell: What is GiveDirectly’s mechanism of ac­tion?

Mu­tual Worth with­out de­fault point (but with po­ten­tial threats)

More “Stupid” Questions