In Fa­vor of Nice­ness, Com­mu­nity, and Civilization

Bridge Col­lapse: Re­duc­tion­ism as Eng­ineer­ing Problem

A Fer­vent Defense of Fre­quen­tist Statistics

A self-ex­per­i­ment in train­ing “notic­ing con­fu­sion”

Be­ware Triv­ial Fears

White Lies

Book Re­view: Lin­ear Alge­bra Done Right (MIRI course list)

The Jan­uary 2013 CFAR work­shop: one-year retrospective

L-zom­bies! (L-zom­bies?)

LINK: In fa­vor of nice­ness, com­mu­nity, and civilisation

“Smarter than us” is out!

I like sim­plic­ity, but not THAT much

A few re­marks about mass-downvoting

Em­brac­ing the “sadis­tic” conclusion

Arthur Chu: Jeop­ardy! cham­pion through ex­em­plary rationality

The Ra­tion­al­ity Wars

Ra­tion­al­ity train­ing: aca­demic and clini­cal perspectives

True num­bers and fake numbers

Meth­ods for treat­ing depression

Prefer­ences with­out Existence

SUDT: A toy de­ci­sion the­ory for up­date­less anthropics

Sin­gle player ex­ten­sive-form games as a model of UDT

Jobs and in­tern­ships available at the Cen­tre for Effec­tive Altruism

Fi­nance as a ca­reer option

On Straw Vul­can Rationality

How can I spend money to im­prove my life?

Meta: so­cial in­fluence bias and the karma system

In­tel­li­gence Met­rics with Nat­u­ral­ized In­duc­tion us­ing UDT

How to teach to mag­i­cal thinkers?

Ra­tion­al­ity & Low-IQ People

17 Rules to Make a Defi­ni­tion that Avoids the 37 Ways of Words Be­ing Wrong

Publi­ca­tion: the “anti-sci­ence” trope is cul­turally po­lariz­ing and makes peo­ple dis­trust scientists

Don’t rely on the sys­tem to guaran­tee you life satisfaction

[Meta] Open thread even more of­ten?

Au­dio Ver­sion of “How to Ac­tu­ally Change Your Mind”

Mind Hacks

The in­no­va­tion tree, over­shad­owed in the in­no­va­tion forest

Logic as Probability

Learn (and Maybe Get a Cre­den­tial in) Data Science

Meetup re­port: Lon­don LW para­noid de­bat­ing session

What are some re­lated com­mu­ni­ties on­line?

Manag­ing your time spent learning

Cam­bridge (England) lec­ture: Ex­is­ten­tial Risk: Sur­viv­ing the 21st Cen­tury, 26th Fe­bru­ary

LINK-How we make our de­pres­sion worse

The ra­tio­nal­ity of split­ting donations

Iden­tity and Death

I love zebras

Brain­storm­ing: chil­dren’s stories

A medium for more ra­tio­nal discussion

Ap­proach­ing Log­i­cal Probability