Why not be awful?

Break your habits: be more empirical

Call for Volunteers

Cam­bridge Less Wrong Meetup

Ra­tional Ter­ror­ism or Why shouldn’t we burn down to­bacco fields?

Scope in­sen­si­tivity in juries

Utility func­tion estimator

Hu­man­ity be­comes more un­tili­tar­ian with time

Ran­dom fic idea

The Sin­gu­lar­ity in the Zeitgeist

Coun­ter­in­tu­itive World—Good in­tro to some topics

Where did my com­ments go?

cred­i­bil­ity.com

6 Minute In­tro to Evolu­tion­ary Psychology

Au­to­mated the­o­rem proving

The meta-eval­u­a­tion question

Cod­ing Ra­tion­ally—Test Driven Development

Can you en­ter the Ma­trix? The de­liber­ate simu­la­tion of sen­sory in­put.

Ex­pec­ta­tion-Based Akra­sia Management

Reflec­tions on a Per­sonal Public Re­la­tions Failure: A Les­son in Communication

Pro­posal for a struc­tured agree­ment tool

Are you do­ing what you should be do­ing?

Which parts of philos­o­phy are worth study­ing from a prag­matic per­spec­tive?

How do you or­ga­nize your re­search?

Tell me what I don’t know about life in­surance.

Messy Science

Hu­man in­abil­ity to as­sign nu­mer­i­cal probabilities

US sci­en­tists find po­ten­tially hab­it­able planet near Earth

Re­quest for rough draft re­view: Nav­i­gat­ing Identityspace

Ex­perts vs. parents

Brain storm: What is the the­ory be­hind a good poli­ti­cal mechanism?

Hy­po­thet­i­cal—Moon Sta­tion Government

Per­mis­sion for mind up­load­ing via on­line files

Nootrop­ics and Cog­ni­tive-en­hance­ment Dis­cus­sion Area

The Direct Democ­racy Experiment

Coun­ter­fac­tual mug­ging: alien ab­duc­tion edition

Why learn­ing pro­gram­ming is a great idea even if you’d never want to code for a living

Test to ex­per­i­ment with the Dis­cus­sion section

New Dis­cus­sion sec­tion on LessWrong!

What is the sound of one hand clap­ping?

Noth­ing wastes re­sources like sav­ing them

Per­sonal de­ci­sions the lead­ing cause of death

Open Thread Septem­ber, Part 3

Anti-akra­sia re­mote mon­i­tor­ing experiment

We have a new dis­cus­sion area

Post-de­ploy Test

Don’t judge a skill by its specialists

Vote Qual­ifi­ca­tions, Not Issues

What Makes My At­tempt Spe­cial?

A Player of Games