Brains more com­pli­cated than pre­vi­ously thought

Think­ing Out­side The Sphere

What does a calcu­la­tor mean by “2”?

Link: Cry­on­ics and the Creation of a Durable Morality

Seat­tle, WA—Less Wrong Meetup—Sun­day Fe­bru­ary 20th, 2:00 PM

An Abor­tion Dialogue

Dawk­ins and Den­nett defend Adap­ta­tion­ism [Links]

Ken Jen­nings to give 50% of Wat­son com­peti­ton win­nings to VillageReach [link]

Sub­jec­tive Rel­a­tivity, Time Dila­tion and Divergence

Does Solomonoff always win?

Bridg­ing In­fer­en­tial Gaps and Ex­plain­ing Ra­tion­al­ity to Other People

What’s the sin­gle best in­tro­duc­tion to evolu­tion to give to a cre­ation­ist?

Over­com­ing the nega­tive sig­nal of not at­tend­ing col­lege.

Another Ar­gu­ment Against Eliezer’s Meta-Ethics

Other peo­ple’s pro­ce­du­ral knowl­edge gaps

Writ­ing re­views in­stead of collecting

[Link] “It’ll never work”: a col­lec­tion of failed predictions

When to scream “Er­ror!”

Up­date­less anthropics

[LINK] What are some stupid things smart peo­ple do?

Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity: Group Prob­lem Solv­ing Session

Some Con­sid­er­a­tions Against Short-Term and/​or Ex­plicit Fo­cus on Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Reduction

Agree­ment button

Fe­bru­ary 27 2011 South­ern Cal­ifor­nia Meetup

IBM’s “Wat­son” pro­gram to com­pete against “Jeop­ardy” cham­pi­ons tonight

LINK: An­ders Sand­berg, “An Overview of Models of Tech­nolog­i­cal Sin­gu­lar­ity”

post pro­posal: At­trac­tion and Se­duc­tion for Hetero­sex­ual Male Rationalists

Ra­tion­al­ist Hobbies

BOOK DRAFT: ‘Ethics and Su­per­in­tel­li­gence’ (part 2)

In­tro to Nat­u­ral­ist Me­taethics?

Spoiled Dis­cus­sion of Per­mu­ta­tion City, A Fire Upon The Deep, and Eliezer’s Mega Crossover

Not own­ing our beliefs

Is there a name for this bias?

Madi­son Less Wrong Meetup: Wed­nes­day, 16 Feb

Open Thread, Fe­bru­ary 2011

An­gles of Attack

Ex­tremely Coun­ter­fac­tual Mug­ging or: the gist of Trans­par­ent Newcomb

Helsinki LW Meetup—Sat March 5th

Toronto Less Wrong Meetup—Thurs­day Feb 17

Farm­ing­ton Hills, MI Less Wrong meetup: Sun­day, Fe­bru­ary 20

Why peo­ple re­ject science

Lon­don meetup, Sun­day 2011-03-06 14:00, near Holborn (re­minder)

Ex­er­cise and motivation

Re­vis­it­ing the An­thropic Trilemma II: ax­ioms and assumptions

In­spiring Rationalists

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Cam­bridge UK Meetup Satur­day 12 February

On The Effec­tive­ness of Ferriss

Con­ver­gence The­o­ries of Meta-Ethics

Sleep­ing anti-beauty and the pre­sump­tu­ous philosopher