You have a set amount of “weird­ness points”. Spend them wisely.

First(?) Ra­tion­al­ist elected to state government

The Cat­e­gories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories

Eth­nic Ten­sion And Mean­ingless Arguments

MIRI Re­search Guide

Bayes Academy: Devel­op­ment re­port 1

A List of Nuances

Break­ing the vi­cious cycle

Stu­art Rus­sell: AI value al­ign­ment prob­lem must be an “in­trin­sic part” of the field’s main­stream agenda

The Hos­tile Arguer

TV’s “Ele­men­tary” Tack­les Friendly AI and X-Risk—“Bella” (Pos­si­ble Spoilers)

My ex­pe­rience of the re­cent CFAR workshop

Musk on AGI Timeframes

Unem­ploy­ment explanations

My third-of-life crisis

Sys­temic risk: a moral tale of ten in­surance companies

When should an Effec­tive Altru­ist be veg­e­tar­ian?

The Ar­gu­ment from Cri­sis and Pes­simism Bias

Pro­duc­tivity 101 For Beginners

When the un­cer­tainty about the model is higher than the un­cer­tainty in the model

xkcd on the AI box experiment

My new pa­per: Con­cept learn­ing for safe au­tonomous AI

Others’ pre­dic­tions of your perfor­mance are usu­ally more accurate

Open Thread: What are your im­por­tant in­sights or aha! mo­ments?

How can one change what they con­sider “fun”?

The “best” math­e­mat­i­cally-in­formed top­ics?

A Cost- Benefit Anal­y­sis of Im­mu­niz­ing Healthy Adults Against Influenza

Ex­ploit­ing EDT

Min­erva Pro­ject: the fu­ture of higher ed­u­ca­tion?

Link: Rob Bens­inger on Less Wrong and vegetarianism

The Danger of In­visi­ble Problems

Ly­ing in ne­go­ti­a­tions: a max­i­mally bad problem

Link: Si­mu­lat­ing C. Elegans

Novem­ber 2014 Monthly Brag­ging Thread

AI caught by a mod­ule that coun­ter­fac­tu­ally doesn’t exist

Re­quest for sug­ges­tions: age­ing and data-mining

Shop for Char­ity: how to earn proven char­i­ties 5% of your Ama­zon spend­ing in commission

A web­site stan­dard that is af­ford­able to the poor­est de­mo­graph­ics in de­vel­op­ing coun­tries?

I just in­creased my Altru­is­tic Effec­tive­ness and you should too

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 11: The treach­er­ous turn

Pro­duc­tivity through self-loyalty

The Truth and In­stru­men­tal Rationality

The Cen­tre for Effec­tive Altru­ism is hiring to fill five roles in re­search, op­er­a­tions and outreach

The Athe­ist’s Tithe

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 8: Cog­ni­tive superpowers

Topolog­i­cal truth pred­i­cates: Towards a model of perfect Bayesian agents

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 9: The or­thog­o­nal­ity of in­tel­li­gence and goals

Belief Chains

In­ten­tion­ally Rais­ing the San­ity Waterline

What are the most com­mon and im­por­tant trade-offs that de­ci­sion mak­ers face?