Are stereo­types ever ir­ra­tional?

Start­ing point for calcu­lat­ing in­fer­en­tial dis­tance?

Longterm/​Difficult to mea­sure charities

Two pub­lic­ity ideas

One ar­gu­ment in fa­vor of limited life spans

Aieee! The stupid! it burns!

How Greedy Bas­tards Have Saved More Lives Than Mother Theresa Ever Did

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes: De­cem­ber 2010

Defi­ni­tions, char­ac­ter­i­za­tions, and hard-to-ground variables

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So­cial Presuppositions

Hard To See What

Cheat codes

Smart peo­ple who are usu­ally wrong

Philadelphia Meetup: Dec 5 or 6

A pos­si­ble ex­am­ple of failure to ap­ply les­sons from Less Wrong

Is am­bi­tion ra­tio­nal?

Ask and Guess

How to Save the World

Gen­der Iden­tity and Rationality

Defect­ing by Ac­ci­dent—A Flaw Com­mon to An­a­lyt­i­cal People

Aspie toy: the Neocube

Bro­ken win­dow fal­lacy and eco­nomic illiter­acy.

The Boundaries of Biases

Public rationality

Con­vinc­ing An Illog­i­cal Being

New Di­plo­macy Game in need of two more.

Where are other places to meet ra­tio­nal­ity-minded peo­ple?

Un­solved Prob­lems in Philos­o­phy Part 1: The Liar’s Paradox

The neck­laces are known ba­si­cally for their deep faith based con­no­ta­tions.

Does TDT pay in Coun­ter­fac­tual Mug­ging?

Blood Feud 2.0

In­di­vi­d­u­als an­gry with hu­man­ity as a pos­si­ble ex­is­ten­tial risk?

On Lot­tery Tickets

On Lot­tery Tickets

Belief in Belief vs. Internalization

Fine-Tuned Mind Projection

“Nahh, that wouldn’t work”

What would an ul­tra-in­tel­li­gent ma­chine make of the great filter?

Sin­gu­lar­ity Non-Fic­tion Com­pila­tion to be Written

[LINK] The Top Ten Daily Con­se­quences of Hav­ing Evolved

Su­per­in­tel­li­gent AI men­tioned as a pos­si­ble risk by Bill Gates

We’re all for­get­ting how to read ana­log clocks. Or are we?

Link: Com­pare your moral val­ues to the gen­eral population

META: Mislead­ing er­ror mes­sage on us­ing wrong username

The Sin of Persuasion

Link: Writ­ing ex­er­cise closes the gen­der gap in uni­ver­sity-level physics

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 6

I didn’t want to have to do this but...

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