Ra­tion­al­ity quotes: Oc­to­ber 2010

Does in­clu­sive fit­ness the­ory miss part of the pic­ture?

Cam­bridge Less Wrong Meetup

Every­day Ques­tions Want­ing Ra­tional Answers

Rally to Re­store Rationality

Bayesian Bud­dhism: a path to op­ti­mal enlightenment

[LINK] Hu­mans are bad at sum­ming up a bunch of small numbers

How to bet­ter un­der­stand and par­ti­ci­pate on LW

Mone­tary In­cen­tives and Performance

Dis­cuss: Meta-Think­ing Skills

In­tel­li­gence ex­plo­sion in plain, vanilla, mixed berry, and coffee flavors

Is there evolu­tion­ary se­lec­tion for fe­male or­gasms?

Call for Volunteers

Not ex­actly the trol­ley problem

Sleep­ing Beauty as a de­ci­sion prob­lem (solved)

META: Who Have You Told About LW?

Berkeley LW Meet-up Satur­day Oc­to­ber 9

What I wish the in­ter­net had: phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal forum

Open Thread

Pas­cal’s Mug­ging as an epistemic problem

*Cry­oburn* by Bujold

Stand­ing Desks and Hunter-Gatherers

What hard­core sin­gu­lar­ity be­liev­ers should con­sider doing

There is no such thing as pleasure

A 50-minute in­tro­duc­tion to probability

I’ll be in NYC from Oct. 30 to Nov. 21

1993 AT&T “You Will” ads

“The cur­rent era is the only chance of set­ting up game rules”

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 4

Help: Which con­cepts are con­tro­ver­sial on LW

Video: Get­ting Things Done Author at DO Lectures

Deep Struc­ture Determinism

Haz­ing as Coun­ter­fac­tual Mug­ging?

Coun­ter­in­tu­itive World—Good in­tro to some topics

Dis­cuss: Have you ex­per­i­mented with Pavlo­vian con­di­tion­ing?

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

Of the Qran and its stylis­tic re­sources: de­con­struct­ing the per­sua­sive­ness Draft

Vi­pas­sana Med­i­ta­tion Open Thread

Un­der­stand­ing the Ev­i­dence for Killer Supplements

Help: Is there a quick and dirty way to ex­plain quan­tum im­mor­tal­ity?

Art and Rationality

Help: When are two com­pu­ta­tions iso­mor­phic?

What is known about con­scious­ness?

Where did my com­ments go?

Ben Go­ertzel: What Would It Take to Move Rapidly Toward Benefi­cial Hu­man-Level AGI?

Quixey Eng­ineer­ing Screen­ing Questions

Utility func­tion estimator

It’s a fact: male and fe­male brains are different

Why should you vote?

Dis­cuss: Origi­nal See­ing Practices