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

Op­ti­miz­ing op­ti­miz­ing LessWrong

“Mind read­ing”—how is this done?

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 26, chap­ter 97

An illicit the­ory of costly signaling

Prac­ti­cal Limits to Giv­ing Now and The Haste Consideration

Meetup : Bratis­lava Meetup VI.

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

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC meetup: Robin Han­son vis­its again

[LINK] Ma­jor guide to supplements

En­gag­ing In­tel­lec­tual Elites at Less Wrong

Bets on an Ex­treme Future

Bi­ases of In­tu­itive and Log­i­cal Thinkers

Does Check­ers have sim­pler rules than Go?

[LINK] Hyper­loop offi­cially an­nounced — pre­dic­tions, any­one?

Course—Sav­ing Millions of lives at a time [link]

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

Meetup : Melbourne So­cial Meetup

What Bayesi­anism taught me

Open thread, Au­gust 12-18, 2013

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC Lo­jban meetup

Some MIRI Work­shop Stuff

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