Pre­scrip­tive vs. de­scrip­tive and ob­jec­tive vs. sub­jec­tive definitions

Meetup : First Meetup in Ham­burg, Germany

De­ci­sion Auc­tions aka “How to fairly as­sign chores, or de­cide who gets the last cookie”

Meetup : So­cial meetup in Raleigh

Ra­tion­al­ists Are Less Cre­d­u­lous But Bet­ter At Tak­ing Ideas Seriously

Pro­pa­gan­diz­ing Meta-Ethics in an Es­say Contest

Some­one who knows how, please fix the hor­ribly bro­ken open thread link.

[link] Why Self-Con­trol Seems (but may not be) Limited

Why don’t more ra­tio­nal­ists start star­tups?

Meetup : Less­wrong Boulder CO

Us­ing vs. eval­u­at­ing (or, Why I don’t come around here no more)

Ar­gue against yourself

Deal­ing with a Ma­jor Per­sonal Crisis

Book Re­view: How Learn­ing Works

2013 Sur­vey Results

Dark Arts of Rationality

Meetup : West LA: Sur­real Numbers

Tell Culture

The On­rush­ing Wave

Meetup : Fe­bru­ary Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo: Plan­ning Fallacy

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Nomic

Meetup : Pitts­burgh Meetup 24 Jan­uary 2014 06:00 PM

Con­ti­nu­ity in Uploading

Meetup : Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup Ljubljana

Meetup : Less Wrong Mon­treal—Dis­solv­ing Disagreements

Weekly LW Meetups

Cry­on­ics As Un­tested Med­i­cal Procedure

Open Thread for Jan­uary 17 − 23 2014

Write down your ba­sic re­al­iza­tions as a mat­ter of habit. Share this file with the world.

Com­mu­nity bias in threat evaluation

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC: Potatoes

H+ re­view of James Miller’s Sin­gu­lar­ity Ris­ing [link]

[Link] Hu­man­ity in Jeop­ardy—Max Teg­mark on AI risk

Pro­duc­tivity tool: race!

Meetup : Bos­ton—Con­nec­tion Theory

Meetup : Brus­sels: Mo­ral­ity—also cake

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Jan­uary 16-31

Meetup : Meet Up: Less Wrong Is­rael Meetup (Tel Aviv): Uses of Cryptography

Divi­sion of cog­ni­tive labour in ac­cor­dance with re­searchers’ ability

Things I Wish They’d Taught Me When I Was Younger: Why Money Is Awesome

Dangers of steel­man­ning /​ prin­ci­ple of charity

LessWrong Help Desk—free pa­per down­loads and more (2014)

The first AI prob­a­bly won’t be very smart

Re­sults from MIRI’s De­cem­ber workshop

Meetup : Berkeley meetup: 5-minute exercises

Re­cre­ational Cryonics

The non-In­de­pen­dence of su­perfi­cially-Ir­rele­vant Alternatives

To cap­ture anti-death in­tu­itions, in­clude mem­ory in utilitarianism

Thought Crimes

Un­der­stand­ing and jus­tify­ing Solomonoff induction