[Link] IBM to set Wat­son loose on can­cer genome data

Eng­ineer­ing ar­chae­ol­ogy

Thoughts on How Con­scious­ness Can Affect the World

To what ex­tent does im­proved ra­tio­nal­ity lead to effec­tive al­tru­ism?

Meetup: Philadelphia, 1 PM, March 23-- treat­ing mis­takes as though they’re bugs

The ecolog­i­cal ra­tio­nal­ity of the bad old fallacies

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Lose Ar­gu­ments to Win Fab­u­lous Prizes

Meetup : Berkeley: Beta-test­ing at CFAR

On Ir­ra­tional The­ory of Identity

In­for­ma­tion-gen­er­at­ing re­search projects

Meetup : Durham: Stupid Ra­tion­al­ity Questions

One Med­i­cal? Ex­pan­sion of MIRI?

Ter­ror­ist baby down the well: a look at in­sti­tu­tional forces

Open thread, 18-24 March 2014

Dis­cov­er­ing Your Se­cretly Se­cret Sen­sory Experiences

FiveThir­tyEight (Nate Silver) rolls out new blog to­day, and at­tempts to teach peo­ple Bayes’ rule.

Global Ex­is­ten­tial Risks & Rad­i­cal Fu­tures (con­fer­ence June 14)

The Prob­lem with AIXI

Less Wrong Study Hall—Year 1 Retrospective

Meetup : Detroit/​Ann Ar­bor—Me­mory Workshop

Friendly AI ideas needed: how would you ban porn?

Re­duced im­pact in prac­tice: ran­domly sam­pling the future

My book: Si­mu­lat­ing Den­nett—This Wed­nes­day in Sao Paulo

Meetup : Moscow, Chaotic Meet up

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, March 16-31

Meetup : Utrecht: Famine, Affluence and Morality

Refer­ence Frames for Ex­pected Value

Meta-er­ror: I like there­fore I am

In­tel­li­gence-disadvantage

Why are Har­vard’s alumni so wealthy?

High school stu­dents and epistemic rationality

Democ­racy and in­di­vi­d­ual liberty; de­cen­tral­ised pre­dic­tion markets

Shoulds can be changed to Cans

Solu­tions and Open Problems

What are you work­ing on? March /​ April 2014

Biomed­i­cal re­search, su­per­stars, and innovation

High school stu­dents and effec­tive altruism

Over­com­ing the Loe­bian ob­sta­cle us­ing ev­i­dence logic

Can you es­cape Heat Death with MWI?

What at­tracts peo­ple to learn­ing things that they con­sider nei­ther in­ter­est­ing nor im­por­tant?

On the con­cept of “tal­ent-con­strained” organizations

New LW Meetup: Auckland

How much wealth is pro­duced by high IQ peo­ple?

On not di­ver­sify­ing charity

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC Short Talks Meetup

Mak­ing LessWrong no­table enough for its own Wikipe­dia page

Par­ent­ing ver­sus ca­reer choice think­ing in teenagers

What at­tracts smart and cu­ri­ous young peo­ple to physics? Should this be en­couraged?

Meetup : Melbourne So­cial Meetup

Meetup : Is­rael Less Wrong Meetup—Pro­duc­tivity Hacks