[link] The ethics of ge­net­i­cally en­hanced mon­key slaves

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Bridg­ing laws

A self-ex­per­i­ment in train­ing “notic­ing con­fu­sion”

Test­ing my cognition

Meetup : Berkeley: Ask vs. Guess (vs. Tell) Culture

Manag­ing your time spent learning

Meetup : Moscow, Differ­ent Reports

[link] Nick Beck­stead on im­prov­ing dis­aster shelters to in­crease the chances of re­cov­ery from a global catastrophe

Open Thread for Fe­bru­ary 18-24 2014

Ra­tion­al­ity train­ing: aca­demic and clini­cal perspectives

Meetup : Se­cond Can­berra Meetup—Para­noid Debating

Open Thread for Fe­bru­ary 18-24 2014

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC EA meetup (now with guests!)

Bridge Col­lapse: Re­duc­tion­ism as Eng­ineer­ing Problem

Au­dio Ver­sion of “How to Ac­tu­ally Change Your Mind”

A Fer­vent Defense of Fre­quen­tist Statistics

The Jan­uary 2013 CFAR work­shop: one-year retrospective

Meetup : At­lanta Less­wrong Meetup: How to In­crease Your Brainpower

Iden­tity and Death

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

[RESCHEDULED] NYC Ra­tion­al­ity Megameetup and Un­con­fer­ence: 4/​5 − 4/​6

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

Meth­ods for treat­ing depression

Steel­man­ning Young Earth Creationism

[Open Thread] Stupid Ques­tions (2014-02-17)

Meetup Re­port Thread: Fe­bru­ary 2014

Meta: so­cial in­fluence bias and the karma system

Meetup re­port: Lon­don LW para­noid de­bat­ing session

A defense of Senex­ism (Death­ism)

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC fun and games meetup

Re­think­ing Education

Men­tal Sub­vo­cal­iza­tion—”Say­ing” Words In Your Mind As You Read

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Poli­tics and the English Language

Effec­tive pub­lic col­lege tu­ition vs. pri­vate col­lege tuition

Thoughts on Death

I like sim­plic­ity, but not THAT much

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

Meetup : Bos­ton: In Defence of the Cathedral

Weekly LW Meetups

How to illus­trate that so­ciety is mostly ir­ra­tional, and how ra­tio­nal­ity would be beneficial

[Open Thread] Links (2014-02-14)

Pri­vate cur­rency to gen­er­ate funds for effec­tive altruism

Some Tools For Op­ti­miz­ing Our Me­dia Use

A few re­marks about mass-downvoting

Em­brac­ing the “sadis­tic” conclusion

Ter­mi­nal and In­stru­men­tal Beliefs

[Meta] Open thread even more of­ten?

Meetup : Berkeley: The Twelve Virtues

Meetup : CANCELLED—Mon­treal Less Wrong—Easy Lifehacks

Calorie Restric­tion: My The­ory and Practice