A Fer­vent Defense of Fre­quen­tist Statistics

Self-Con­grat­u­la­tory Rationalism

Dr. Jub­jub pre­dicts a crisis

Re­sults from MIRI’s De­cem­ber workshop

A brief sum­mary of effec­tive study methods

What It’s Like to No­tice Things

MIRI Re­search Guide

Look for the Next Tech Gold Rush?

False Friends and Tone Policing

Mechanism De­sign: Con­struct­ing Al­gorithms for Strate­gic Agents

Maybe you want to max­imise pa­per­clips too

[meta] Fu­ture mod­er­a­tion and in­ves­ti­ga­tion of down­vote abuse cases, or, I don’t want to deal with this stuff

New or­ga­ni­za­tion—Fu­ture of Life In­sti­tute (FLI)

Be­ware The Man Of One Study

Less Wrong Study Hall—Year 1 Retrospective

Bayes Academy: Devel­op­ment re­port 1

A List of Nuances

Be com­fortable with hypocrisy

Against util­ity functions

Con­found it! Cor­re­la­tion is (usu­ally) not cau­sa­tion! But why not?

Break­ing the vi­cious cycle

The Cow­pox of Doubt

A self-ex­per­i­ment in train­ing “notic­ing con­fu­sion”

Hal Fin­ney has just died.

Be­ware Triv­ial Fears

Asches to Asches

[Meta] The De­cline of Dis­cus­sion: Now With Charts!

A Vi­su­al­iza­tion of Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence

[meta] New LW mod­er­a­tor: Viliam_Bur

Two ar­gu­ments for not think­ing about ethics (too much)

The Power of Noise

White Lies

De­ci­sion Auc­tions aka “How to fairly as­sign chores, or de­cide who gets the last cookie”

Poli­tics is hard mode

What re­sources have in­creas­ing marginal util­ity?

LW client-side com­ment improvements

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

Fas­cists and Rakes

Down­vote stalk­ers: Driv­ing mem­bers away from the LessWrong com­mu­nity?

Book Re­view: How Learn­ing Works

A Guide to Ra­tional Investing

Knigh­tian un­cer­tainty in a Bayesian framework

[link] Why Self-Con­trol Seems (but may not be) Limited

MIRI’s tech­ni­cal re­search agenda

Mul­ti­ple Fac­tor Ex­pla­na­tions Should Not Ap­pear One-Sided

Stu­art Rus­sell: AI value al­ign­ment prob­lem must be an “in­trin­sic part” of the field’s main­stream agenda

Quan­tified Risks of Gay Male Sex

State of the Sols­tice 2014

I Will Pay $500 To Any­one Who Can Con­vince Me To Can­cel My Cry­on­ics Subscription

Liter­a­ture-re­view on cog­ni­tive effects of modafinil (my bach­e­lor the­sis)