Siren wor­lds and the per­ils of over-op­ti­mised search

Bot­world: a cel­lu­lar au­toma­ton for study­ing self-mod­ify­ing agents em­bed­ded in their environment

A brief sum­mary of effec­tive study methods

Be com­fortable with hypocrisy

The Cow­pox of Doubt

How long will Al­cor be around?

Busi­ness Net­work­ing through LessWrong

The Con­trol Group Is Out Of Control

Skills and Antiskills

Book Re­view: So Good They Can’t Ig­nore You, by Cal Newport

Items to Have In Case of Emer­gency...Maybe.

The Cry­on­ics Strat­egy Space

Tapestries of Gold

Euro­pean Com­mu­nity Week­end 2014 retrospective

The Study of Anglophysics

Re­quest for con­crete AI takeover mechanisms

Hu­man cap­i­tal or sig­nal­ing? No, it’s about do­ing the Right Thing and ac­quiring karma

The Cold War di­vided Science

Why don’t you at­tend your lo­cal LessWrong meetup? /​ Gen­eral meetup feedback

South­ern Cal­ifor­nia FAI Workshop

MIRI Dona­tion Col­lab­o­ra­tion Station

Hawk­ing/​Rus­sell/​Teg­mark/​Wilczek on dan­gers of Su­per­in­tel­li­gent Machines [link]

AI risk, new ex­ec­u­tive summary

How do you ap­proach the prob­lem of so­cial dis­cov­ery?

Recom­men­da­tions for donat­ing to an anti-death cause

Com­mu­nity overview and re­sources for mod­ern Less Wrong meetup organisers

Eval­u­at­ing GiveWell as a startup idea based on Paul Gra­ham’s philosophy

The effect of effec­tive­ness in­for­ma­tion on char­i­ta­ble giving

Sup­ply, de­mand, and tech­nolog­i­cal progress: how might the fu­ture un­fold? Should we be­lieve in run­away ex­po­nen­tial growth?

AI risk, ex­ec­u­tive summary

LessWrong as so­cial catalyst

My Heart­bleed learn­ing ex­pe­rience and al­ter­na­tive to poor qual­ity Heart­bleed in­struc­tions.

[Re­quest­ing ad­vice] Prob­lems with op­ti­miz­ing my life as a high school student

Schel­ling Day 2.0

Ca­reer prospects for physics majors

Be­ware tech­nolog­i­cal won­der­land, or, why text will dom­i­nate the fu­ture of com­mu­ni­ca­tion and the Internet

Us­ing the log­a­r­ith­mic timeline to un­der­stand the future

SHRDLU, un­der­stand­ing, an­thro­po­mor­phi­sa­tion and hind­sight bias

The failed simu­la­tion effect and its im­pli­ca­tions for the op­ti­miza­tion of ex­tracur­ricu­lar activities

Ther­mo­dy­nam­ics of In­tel­li­gence and Cog­ni­tive Enhancement

LessWrongWiki User Pages Un­deruti­lized; Tag Proposal

How Tim O’Brien gets around the log­i­cal fal­lacy of gen­er­al­iza­tion from fic­tional evidence

A sum­mary and broad points of agree­ment and dis­agree­ment with Cal New­port’s book on high school extracurriculars

Bostrom ver­sus Transcendence

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes April 2014

Euro­pean Com­mu­nity Week­end in Ber­lin Im­pres­sions Thread

[LINK] The er­rors, in­sights and les­sons of fa­mous AI predictions

Er­gonomics Revisited

How rele­vant are the les­sons from Megamis­takes to fore­cast­ing to­day?

Cog­nito Men­tor­ing and zero-sum competition