Hu­mans are not au­to­mat­i­cally strategic

In­tel­lec­tual Hip­sters and Meta-Contrarianism

Self-Im­prove­ment or Shiny Dis­trac­tion: Why Less Wrong is anti-In­stru­men­tal Rationality

Memetic Hazards in Videogames

Some­thing’s Wrong

Com­part­men­tal­iza­tion in epistemic and in­stru­men­tal ra­tio­nal­ity

More art, less stink: Tak­ing the PU out of PUA

The Affect Heuris­tic, Sen­ti­ment, and Art

A “Failure to Eval­u­ate Re­turn-on-Time” Fallacy

Er­ror de­tec­tion bias in research

Don’t judge a skill by its specialists

Anti-akra­sia re­mote mon­i­tor­ing experiment

In­tel­li­gence Am­plifi­ca­tion Open Thread

The Science of Cut­ting Peppers

Bayes’ rule =/​= Bayesian inference

(Vir­tual) Em­ploy­ment Open Thread

What Makes My At­tempt Spe­cial?

Poli­tics as Charity

Fru­gal­ity and work­ing from finite data

Con­trol­ling Con­stant Programs

The Effec­tive­ness of Devel­op­ing World Aid

Less Wrong Should Con­front Wrong­ness Wher­ever it Appears

Ra­tion­al­ity Case Study—Ad-36

A Player of Games

Ra­tion­al­ity Power Tools

New Dis­cus­sion sec­tion on LessWrong!

Ex­perts vs. parents

Ra­tional Health Optimization

Steps to Achieve­ment: The Pit­falls, Costs, Re­quire­ments, and Timelines

Link: “You’re Not Be­ing Rea­son­able”

Rea­son­ably Fun

Why learn­ing pro­gram­ming is a great idea even if you’d never want to code for a living

The con­scious tape

Septem­ber 2010 South­ern Cal­ifor­nia Meetup

We have a new dis­cus­sion area

The Mean­ing of Life

Per­sonal de­ci­sions the lead­ing cause of death

Vote Qual­ifi­ca­tions, Not Issues

Septem­ber Less Wrong Meetup aka Eliezer’s Bayesian Birth­day Bash

Re­minder: Weekly LW meet­ings in NYC

Berkeley LW Meet-up Sun­day Septem­ber 5

Melbourne Less Wrong Meetup

Fall 2010 Meta Thread

Rea­son is not the only means of over­com­ing bias

AI in­differ­ence through util­ity manipulation

Ra­tion­al­ity quotes: Septem­ber 2010

Less Wrong: Open Thread, Septem­ber 2010

Nootrop­ics and Cog­ni­tive-en­hance­ment Dis­cus­sion Area

Open Thread, Septem­ber, 2010-- part 2

LW’s first job ad