Coun­ter­fac­tual mug­ging: alien ab­duc­tion edition

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

Test to ex­per­i­ment with the Dis­cus­sion section

New Dis­cus­sion sec­tion on LessWrong!

What is the sound of one hand clap­ping?

Noth­ing wastes re­sources like sav­ing them

Per­sonal de­ci­sions the lead­ing cause of death

Open Thread Septem­ber, Part 3

Anti-akra­sia re­mote mon­i­tor­ing experiment

We have a new dis­cus­sion area

Post-de­ploy Test

Don’t judge a skill by its specialists

Vote Qual­ifi­ca­tions, Not Issues

What Makes My At­tempt Spe­cial?

A Player of Games

Poli­tics as Charity

(Vir­tual) Em­ploy­ment Open Thread

Let’s make a deal

Is Ra­tion­al­ity Max­i­miza­tion of Ex­pected Value?

Ra­tion­al­ity Case Study—Ad-36

Er­ror de­tec­tion bias in research

Less Wrong Should Con­front Wrong­ness Wher­ever it Appears

Melbourne Less Wrong Meetup

Fall 2010 Meta Thread

Ra­tion­al­ity Power Tools

Pop­u­lar moral­ity: spare those on the left

Ra­tional Health Optimization

The Mean­ing of Life

Com­part­men­tal­iza­tion in epistemic and in­stru­men­tal ra­tio­nal­ity

Open Thread, Septem­ber, 2010-- part 2

The con­scious tape

LW’s first job ad

Bayes’ rule =/​= Bayesian inference

Perfect procrastination

In­tel­li­gence Am­plifi­ca­tion Open Thread

Link: “You’re Not Be­ing Rea­son­able”

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

Cam­bridge Less Wrong Meetup Sun­day, Sep 19

The Affect Heuris­tic, Sen­ti­ment, and Art

In­tel­lec­tual Hip­sters and Meta-Contrarianism

I don’t clean be­cause the house is never dirty

Septem­ber 2010 South­ern Cal­ifor­nia Meetup

The Effec­tive­ness of Devel­op­ing World Aid

Re­minder: Weekly LW meet­ings in NYC

The Science of Cut­ting Peppers

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

Ig­no­rance of non-ex­is­tent preferences

Memetic Hazards in Videogames

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

Rea­son is not the only means of over­com­ing bias