The Self-Re­in­forc­ing Binary

Risk is not em­piri­cally cor­re­lated with return

Can cry­opro­tec­tant tox­i­c­ity be crowd-sourced?

Com­pe­ti­tion to write the best stand-alone ar­ti­cle on effi­cient charity

Agents of No Mo­ral Value: Con­strained Cog­ni­tion?

The true pris­oner’s dilemma with skewed pay­off matrix

Pseu­dolike­li­hood as a source of cog­ni­tive bias

What I’ve learned from Less Wrong

Games Peo­ple Play

Ra­tion­al­ity and be­ing child-free

Com­mon Sense Athe­ism sum­ma­riz­ing the Sequences

Help with (pseudo-)ra­tio­nal film characters

Fic­tion: “Chicken Lit­tle” by Cory Doctorow

Ad­vice for a Bud­ding Rationalist

Yes, a blog.

Goals for which Less Wrong does (and doesn’t) help

The Benefits of Two Reli­gious Educations

Another ra­tio­nal­ist pro­tag­o­nist takes on “magic”

“Tar­get au­di­ence” size for the Less Wrong sequences

Weird char­ac­ters in the Sequences

IQ Scores Fail to Pre­dict Aca­demic Perfor­mance in Chil­dren With Autism

Ra­tion­al­ist Di­plo­macy, Game 2, Game Over

Sus­pended An­i­ma­tion Inc. ac­cused of incompetence

Im­perfect Levers

How would you spend 30 mil­lion dol­lars?

‘Space-Time Cloak’ to Con­ceal Events

Rolf Nel­son: How to de­ter a rogue AI by us­ing your first-mover ad­van­tage

Zero Bias

Refer­ence Points

The­o­ret­i­cal “Tar­get Au­di­ence” size of Less Wrong

Pitts­burgh meetup Nov. 20

Anti-Akra­sia Reprise

Crit­i­cisms of CEV (re­quest for links)

Are we more akratic than av­er­age?

Jerusalem meetup Nov. 20

Ar­ti­cle on quan­tified lifel­og­ging (Slate.com)

Catas­trophic risks from ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence (Onion Videos)

The curse of gift­ed­ness:

Do you vi­su­al­ize Omega?

Eth­i­cal Treat­ment of AI

Bayesian Nights (Ra­tion­al­ist Story Time)

Bayesian Nights (Ra­tion­al­ist Story Time)

The dan­ger of liv­ing a story—Sin­gu­lar­ity Tropes

Fixed­ness From Frailty

META: ar­ti­cle search by au­thor (Re­solved)

Another at­tempt to ex­plain UDT

Hu­mans don’t gen­er­ally have util­ity functions

Men­tal focus

Hi—I’m new here—some questions

Telepa­thy Ex­ists (no, not the Bem study)