Best of Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes 2009/​2010

How Pas­cal’s Wager Saved My Soul

When and how psy­cholog­i­cal data is col­lected af­fects the kind of stu­dents who volunteer

An In­tu­itive Ex­pla­na­tion of Eliezer Yud­kowsky’s In­tu­itive Ex­pla­na­tion of Bayes’ Theorem

Cryp­to­graphic Boxes for Un­friendly AI

Brain blog­ger survey

Link: Fac­ing the Mind-Killer

Ev­i­dence for sur­pris­ing ease of de-nu­cle­ariza­tion

Folk gram­mar and morality

Tur­ing Test Tour­na­ment For Funding

TrailMemes for Sequences

Weird­topias in sci­ence fiction

The prob­lem of mankind in­de­struc­tibil­ity in dis­as­trously un­pre­dictable environment

“Ir­ra­tional­ity in Ar­gu­ment”

Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute pitch and new pro­ject plus other or­ga­ni­za­tions in our ecosystem

High Failure-Rate Solutions

De­cem­ber 2010 South­ern Cal­ifor­nia Meetup

What do you mean by ra­tio­nal­ism?

Does anti-dis­crim­i­na­tion look like dis­crim­i­na­tion?

User­name switch karma dona­tion request

Ex­pan­sion of “Cached thought” wiki entry

Link: “A Bayesian Take on Ju­lian As­sange”

Con­fi­dence lev­els in­side and out­side an argument

Vary­ing amounts of sub­jec­tive experience

Link: My some­thing-like-Friendli­ness-re­search blog

(Some) Sin­gu­lar­ity Sum­mit 2010 videos now up

Bul­ly­ing the Integers

Dis­rup­tion of the right tem­poropari­etal junc­tion with tran­scra­nial mag­netic stim­u­la­tion re­duces the role of be­liefs in moral judgments

Why fo­cus on mak­ing robots nice?

In­tro­duc­tion to Game The­ory (Links)

One Chance (a short flash game)

Friendly AI Re­search and Taskification

Honours Dissertation

Would the world be bet­ter off with­out 50% of the peo­ple in it?

Ex­po­nen­ti­a­tion goes wrong first

Karma Mo­ti­va­tion Thread

Brain­storm­ing: neat stuff we could do on LessWrong

What top­ics would you like to see more of on LessWrong?

What is Evil about cre­at­ing House Elves?

Read­ing Level of Less Wrong

Within the next rich hint per­sonal can solve your value Pan­dora low-cost Pan­dora diamond

Moder­a­tion of ap­par­ent trolling

Bayesian ap­proach: UFO vs. AI hypotheses

Test­ing the effec­tive­ness of an effort to help

$100 for the best ar­ti­cle on effi­cient charty—the win­ner is …

Books on evolu­tion of conscience

Any LessWrongers in Cal­gary?

The Long Now

Should LW have a pub­lic cen­sor­ship policy?

Why Eliezer Yud­kowsky re­ceives more up­votes than others