Vi­su­al­iz­ing Bayesian In­fer­ence [link]

Rant­ing about Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Democracy

Be­ing a teacher

Kinect self-aware­ness hack

Science Jour­nal­ism and How To Pre­sent Prob­a­bil­ities [Link]

How I Lost 100 Pounds Us­ing TDT

Hand­ed­ness Bias

Ra­tion­al­ist Lord of the Rings fan­fic­tion, newly trans­lated from Russian

‘The Economist’ hosts a de­bate on AI and the sin­gu­lar­ity (with video)

Map and Ter­ri­tory and “Paths”

Map and Ter­ri­tory and “Paths”

What ex­actly IS the over­pop­u­la­tion ar­gu­ment (in re­gards to im­mor­tal­ity)?

Move mee­tups to the side­bar?

Or­gan dona­tion ver­sus cryonics

Cry­on­ics in Aus­tralia: How do you ac­tu­ally do it?

If ‘birth’ is worth noth­ing, births are worth anything

Kan­tian baby rats

Bayesi­anism in the face of unknowns

Tweet­able Ra­tion­al­ity

Mak­ing Rea­son­ing Ob­vi­ously Lo­cally Correct

What other causes are rele­vant to LessWrong?

Cry­on­ics and the im­por­tance of body to cognition

Con­sult­ing Op­por­tu­nity for Bud­ding Econometricians

Public ser­vice an­nounce­ment—Bay Area tsunami warn­ing!

Some Reflec­tions on Branch­ing vs Probability

A Thought Ex­per­i­ment on Pain as a Mo­ral Disvalue

AGI and Friendly AI in the dom­i­nant AI textbook

Off-topic Thread

Columbia Univer­sity Meetup

Non-per­sonal prefer­ences of never-ex­isted people

Plant Seeds of Rationality

The Limits of Curiosity

Magic Ar­ti­cles I’ve Written

[Video] AI Box Ex­per­i­ment on BBC’s “Look Around You”

Agree­ment on anthropics

[Link] Your genes, your rights – FDA’s Jeffrey Shuren not a fan

Col­lege Selec­tion Advice

Bet­ter late than never: Toronto meetup March 10

How SIAI could pub­lish in main­stream cog­ni­tive sci­ence journals

Eliezer passes 100,000 karma points

Ben Go­ertzel on Charity

[Link] The New Humanism

John Baez on Charity

Lokhorst, ‘Com­pu­ta­tional Meta-ethics’ (2011)

Less Wrong at Burn­ing Man 2011

Why not just write failsafe rules into the su­per­in­tel­li­gent ma­chine?

How best to show dy­ing is bad

How to im­prove the pub­lic per­cep­tion of the SIAI and LW?

[link] Why an In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sion is Probable

Open Thread, March 2011