Why not fake height?

The Psy­cholog­i­cal Diver­sity of Mankind

What is bunk?

Mov­ing marginal mothers

Beauty quips, “I’d shut up and mul­ti­ply!”

Cog­ni­tive Bias Song

An­tag­o­niz­ing Opi­oid Re­cep­tors for (Preven­tion of) Fun and Profit

The Cameron Todd Willing­ham test

Ex­pe­riences are friends

But Some­body Would Have Noticed

Hu­man val­ues differ as much as val­ues can differ

Con­no­ta­tions are indelible

En­joy ≠ want, but why should wants sub­mit?

Ra­tion­al­ity quotes: May 2010

Open Thread: May 2010

Why is bad teach­ing at­tached to uni cer­tifi­ca­tion?

Aver­ag­ing value sys­tems is worse than choos­ing one

Who ob­serves be­ing you, and do they cheat in SIA?

What are our do­mains of ex­per­tise? A mar­ket­place of in­sights and issues

Jin­netic Eng­ineer­ing, by Richard Stallman

Pos­si­bil­ities for con­vert­ing use­less fun into util­ity in On­line Gaming

MathOverflow as an ex­am­ple for LessWrong

An­thropic summary

What is miss­ing from ra­tio­nal­ity?

At­ten­tion Less Wrong: We need an FAQ

Pro­posed New Fea­tures for Less Wrong

Only hu­mans can have hu­man values

Who is your fa­vorite ra­tio­nal­ist?

Re­port from Hu­man­ity+ UK 2010

Nav­i­gat­ing dis­agree­ment: How to keep your eye on the ev­i­dence

The role of math­e­mat­i­cal truths

23andme genome anal­y­sis - $99 to­day only

Sys­tems and stories

Too busy to think about life

Liv­ing Large—availa­bil­ity of life

Fus­ing AI with Superstition

Eight Short Stud­ies On Excuses

CogSci books

The Red Bias

Friendly, but Dumb: Why for­mal Friendli­ness proofs may not be as safe as they appear

The (Boltz­mann) Brain-In-A-Jar

The Fun­da­men­tal Question

a meta-anti-akra­sia strat­egy that might just work

Might law save us from un­car­ing AI?

VNM ex­pected util­ity the­ory: uses, abuses, and interpretation

Elud­ing At­ten­tion Hijacks

At­ten­tion Lurk­ers: Please say hi

When is forced or­gan self­ish­ness good for you?

The Con­cepts Problem

Self-in­di­ca­tion as­sump­tion is wrong for in­ter­est­ing reasons