Teapots and Soda Cans

Ad­vanced Place­ment exam cut­offs and su­perfi­cial knowl­edge over deep knowledge

P/​S/​A—Sam Har­ris offer­ing money for a lit­tle good philosophy

MIRI course list book re­views, part 1: Gödel, Escher, Bach

Bed time sto­ries with clear concepts

Septem­ber 2013 Me­dia Thread

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Septem­ber 1-15

Rele­vance of the STEPS pro­ject to (F)AI teams

Any in­ter­est in a one-time meetup in Char­lotte, NC this Tues­day?

Rais­ing nu­mer­ate children

Look­ing for Opinions on “An­tifrag­ile” by N. Taleb

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, DC: Goals

New LW Meetup: Ur­bana-Champaign

Ge­nies and Wishes in the con­text of com­puter science

Why Pro­duc­tivity? Why Grat­i­tude?

Tech­niques to con­sciously ac­ti­vate a ra­tio­nal­ist self-image

A ba­sis for pat­tern-match­ing in log­i­cal uncertainty

Meetup : Moscow: The Sun­day Meetup

Meetup : Fall Equinox: Fes­ti­val of Heroes

Out­side View(s) and MIRI’s FAI Endgame

[LINK] - Aaron Sell (Psy­chol­ogy To­day) on the Poli­ti­ci­sa­tion of Science

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 27, chap­ter 98

Yet more “stupid” questions

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

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Meetup : Melbourne Prac­ti­cal Ra­tion­al­ity: Group Pre­dic­tion Cal­ibra­tion and Au­mann’s Agree­ment Theorem

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

Meetup : Ari­zona State Lunch Group

Meetup : New Meetup: Boulder CO

How I Am Productive

Meetup : Saska­toon Meetup: Value of Information

Open thread, Au­gust 26 - Septem­ber 1, 2013

Two an­gles on Repet­i­tive Strain Injury

How sure are you that brain em­u­la­tions would be con­scious?

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign, Illinois

[LINK] At­ten­tion Schema The­ory of Consciousness

Real­ity is weirdly normal

To what de­gree do you model peo­ple as agents?

Trans­parency in safety-crit­i­cal systems

The 50 Shades of Grey Book Club

Ob­vi­ous points

How Effi­cient is the Char­i­ta­ble Mar­ket?

Meetup : West LA—Noth­ing in Particular

Weekly LW Meetups

Meetup : Com­fort Zone Ex­pan­sion out­ing—London

Less­wrong Philos­o­phy and Per­sonal Identity

Ra­tion­al­ist house­holds: What can Lon­don learn from its pre­de­ces­sors?

Meetup : Philadelphia—Hu­mans are not au­to­mat­i­cally strategic

Another Anki deck for Less Wrong content

Are ‘Ev­i­dence-based’ poli­cies dam­ag­ing poli­cy­mak­ing?