Meetup : Less­wrong Boulder CO

Dou­ble-thick tran­sis­tors and other sub­jec­tive phenomena

New (pro­posal for) monthly thread: Meetup Reports

[LINK] Pop­u­lar press ac­count of so­cial benefits of mo­ti­vated reasoning

Even Odds

Why I haven’t signed up for cryonics

Dereg­u­lat­ing Dis­trac­tion, Mov­ing Towards the Goal, and Level Hopping

AALWA: Ask any LessWronger anything

Try more things.

I Will Pay $500 To Any­one Who Can Con­vince Me To Can­cel My Cry­on­ics Subscription

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC Effec­tive Altru­ism Meetup

Calcu­lat­ing an ex­pected value

Free on­line course: How to Rea­son and Ar­gue start­ing Mon. Any in­ter­est in study group?

New LW Mee­tups: Port­land, Sydney

Dr. Jub­jub pre­dicts a crisis

Meetup : Van­cou­ver Biweekly Se­quences Dis­cus­sion: Poli­tics Is the Mind-killer

[LINK] Peo­ple be­come more util­i­tar­ian in VR moral dilem­mas as com­pared to text based.

Vari­ables in Ar­gu­ments as a Source of Confusion

Ha­bit­ual Productivity

The me­chan­ics of my re­cent productivity

We need new hu­mans, please help

Physics grad stu­dent: how to build em­ploy­a­bil­ity in pro­gram­ming & finance

Liter­a­ture-re­view on cog­ni­tive effects of modafinil (my bach­e­lor the­sis)

[Link] Con­scious­ness as a State of Mat­ter (Max Teg­mark)

Some thoughts on hav­ing children

Meetup : Lon­don—The Schel­ling Point Strat­egy Game (plus so­cials)

Open Thread for Jan­uary 8 − 16 2014

A big Sin­gu­lar­ity-themed Hol­ly­wood movie out in April offers many op­por­tu­ni­ties to talk about AI risk

Meetup : Meetup at CFAR, Wed­nes­day: Nutri­tion­ally com­plete bread

Meetup : Bos­ton—Macroe­co­nomic The­ory (Joe Sch­nei­der)

Jan­uary Monthly Brag­ging Thread

Meetup : Durham Meetup—Bias Defenses from Influence

Meetup : Melbourne So­cial Meetup

Meetup : West LA—How to Live on 22 Hours a Day

[LINK] Why I’m not on the Ra­tion­al­ist Masterlist

Mar­ijuana: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

[LINK] The Math­e­mat­ics of Gam­ifi­ca­tion—Ap­pli­ca­tion of Bayes Rule to Voting

Meetup : At­lanta, Jan­uary Meetup & Movie Night!

In­tro­duc­ing .impact

Another Cri­tique of Effec­tive Altruism

[Link] Valproic acid, a drug for brain plasticity

Fas­cists and Rakes

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Jan­uary 2014

Meetup : Moscow, First New Year

[Link] More om­i­nous than a [Mar­riage] strike

Soft Pa­ter­nal­ism in Parenting

Cri­tiquing Gary Taubes, Fi­nal: The Truth About Diets and Weight Loss

[LINK] How Long Does Habit For­ma­tion Take?

Weekly LW Meetups

[link] How do good ideas spread?