The Out­side View Of Hu­man Complexity

1001 Pre­dic­tionBook Nights

Mike Dar­win on Kurzweil, Techno-Op­ti­mism, and Delu­sional Stances on Cryonics

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Bal­ti­more, Hous­ton, Chicago, Melbourne, and Penn State

Guardian ar­ti­cle high­lights ob­ser­va­tional bi­ases in Knox investigators

Mike Dar­win on Steve Jobs’s hyp­o­crit­i­cal stance to­wards death

Link: WJS ar­ti­cle that uses Steve Jobs’ death to mock cry­on­ics and the Singularity

[SEQ RERUN] No One Knows What Science Doesn’t Know

Ap­ply­ing Bayesian Anal­y­sis to His­tory (post idea)

Mo­ral­ity is not about willpower

Karma and good discussions

Neu­ral Cor­re­lates of Con­scious Access

Key­log­ger virus strikes Amer­i­can UAV con­trol center

Meetup : Dublin, IE, Meetup

Re­pres­sion in the age of hu­man enhancement

Marsh et al. “Sero­tonin Trans­porter Geno­type (5-HTTLPR) Pre­dicts Utili­tar­ian Mo­ral Judg­ments”

[SEQ RERUN] Dou­ble Illu­sion of Transparency

Should I play World of War­craft?

Mul­ti­ply­ing 10-digit num­bers us­ing Flickr: The power of recog­ni­tion memory

[Link] Neu­ral Cor­re­lates of Con­fu­sion?

What are you work­ing on?

Up­com­ing book: “Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence and the End of the Hu­man Era”

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More shame­less ploys for job advice

[SEQ RERUN] Ex­plain­ers Shoot High, Aim Low!

Vol­un­teer needed to change the front page ‘Fea­tured Ar­ti­cles’ each week

Im­per­a­tive Cat­e­gories?

On self-deception

Meetup : Ot­tawa Meetup—Learn­ing Lin­ear Algebra

Freewill vs. Determinism

Re­pairing Yud­kowsky’s anti-zom­bie argument

Pas­cal’s wa­ger re-examined

[LINK] Robin Han­son on Carl Shul­man’s re­cent pa­per on Whole Brain Emulation

[LINK] A Re­view and Sum­mary of John Har­ris’s Case for Chem­i­cal Enhancement

Why are you down­vot­ing?

[SEQ RERUN] Ex­pect­ing Short In­fer­en­tial Distances

Another Mechanism for the Placebo Effect?

Meetup : Cam­bridge, MA Sun­day meetup

Re-eval­u­ate old beliefs

Not By Em­pa­thy Alone

Pri­vate Manned Moon­base in the 1990s, Yet Another Plan­ning Fallacy

Prize for the best in­tro­duc­tion to the LessWrong source ($250)

The Na­tional In­sti­tute of Theology

Peter Thiel warns of up­com­ing (and cur­rent) stagnation

Pod­casts with Robin Han­son 2

Ap­ply your knowl­edge: pick half a number

Lec­tur­ing con­gress­men on cog­ni­tive biases

Ig No­bel for the anti-akra­sia guy

Another “Oops” mo­ment [link]

Reli­gion, hap­piness, and Bayes