An­nounc­ing The Effec­tive Altru­ism Forum

Flashes of Nondecisionmaking

“Fol­low your dreams” as a case study in in­cor­rect thinking

Unem­ploy­ment explanations

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

No­body Is Perfect, Every­thing Is Commensurable

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence Read­ing Group—Sec­tion 1: Past Devel­op­ments and Pre­sent Capabilities

Skills and Antiskills

Why I haven’t signed up for cryonics

Pro­duc­tivity tool: race!

Un­pop­u­lar ideas at­tract poor ad­vo­cates: Be charitable

What false be­liefs have you held and why were you wrong?

Change Con­texts to Im­prove Arguments

Strat­e­gyproof Mechanisms: Possibilities

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

LINK: In fa­vor of nice­ness, com­mu­nity, and civilisation

Cre­dence Cal­ibra­tion Ice­breaker Game

Two Dark Side Statis­tics Papers

Knigh­tian un­cer­tainty: a re­jec­tion of the MMEU rule

“Smarter than us” is out!

Best of Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes, 2013 Edition

Train­ing Reflec­tive Attention

New pa­per from MIRI: “Toward ideal­ized de­ci­sion the­ory”

The Cor­rect Use of Analogy

[link] Why Psy­chol­o­gists’ Food Fight Matters

Ar­gu­ments and rele­vance claims

In­cen­tive com­pat­i­bil­ity and the Reve­la­tion Principle

The Prob­lem of “Win-More”

The Cry­on­ics Strat­egy Space

[LINK] Why I’m not on the Ra­tion­al­ist Masterlist

Fund­ing can­ni­bal­ism mo­ti­vates con­cern for overheads

A Parable of Elites and Takeoffs

En­tropy and Temperature

“And that’s okay”: ac­cept­ing and own­ing reality

My third-of-life crisis

In the grim dark­ness of the far fu­ture there is only war con­tinued by other means

Why “Chang­ing the World” is a Hor­rible Phrase

“Solv­ing” self­ish­ness for UDT

I’m hold­ing a birth­day fundraiser

Causal de­ci­sion the­ory is unsatisfactory

Fifty Shades of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Separat­ing the roles of the­ory and di­rect em­piri­cal ev­i­dence in be­lief for­ma­tion: the ex­am­ples of min­i­mum wage and an­thro­pogenic global warming

I like sim­plic­ity, but not THAT much

The Study of Anglophysics

A Story of Kings and Spies

Re­cent up­dates to gw­ern.net (2013-2014)

[LINK] Scott Aaron­son on In­te­grated In­for­ma­tion Theory

An­nounc­ing the 2014 pro­gram equil­ibrium iter­ated PD tournament

What we learned about Less Wrong from Cog­nito Men­tor­ing advising

Us­ing ma­chine learn­ing to pre­dict ro­man­tic com­pat­i­bil­ity: em­piri­cal results