Less­wrongers from the Ger­man-speak­ing world, unite!

Rap­ture/​Pet Insurance

Ot­tawa LW meetup, May 26, 7pm; Bayes study group, May 26, 9am

The Ad­van­tages of Be­ing Technical

[LINKs] Bit­coin hits main­stream; in­tel­li­gent tech­ni­cal critique

The Aliens have Landed!

How to (un)be­come a crank

On the An­thropic Trilemma

[SEQ RERUN] Tsuyoku vs. the Egal­i­tar­ian Instinct

Ex­am­ple de­ci­sion the­ory prob­lem: “Agent simu­lates pre­dic­tor”

Greg Egan and the Incomprehensible

What both­ers you about Less Wrong?

Should I be afraid of GMOs?

Ho­mo­mor­phic en­cryp­tion and Bitcoin

[LINK] Pixar works to make the fu­ture better

Trav­el­ing to Europe

[LINK] Hu­man Brain Pro­ject aims to em­u­late brain by 2024

Ra­tion­al­ist Horo­scopes: Low-hang­ing util­ity gen­er­a­tor?

A Game­play Ex­plo­ra­tion of Yud­kowsky’s “Twelve Virtues”

[SEQ RERUN] Tsuyoku Nar­i­tai! (I Want To Be­come Stronger)

Suffer­ing as at­ten­tion-al­lo­ca­tional conflict

[Fic­tion] It’s a strange feel­ing, to be free

[Links] The struc­ture of ex­plo­ra­tion and exploitation

The greater a tech­nol­ogy’s com­plex­ity, the more slowly it im­proves?

Ad­vice needed: Less Wrong Meetup Les­son plan on Communication

[LINK] Sub­cul­ture roles (by Brad Hicks)

LINK: Sub­cul­ture roles (by Brad Hicks)

Tri­an­gle NC Meetup—May 20th 6pm

Liv­ing For­ever is Hard, or, The Gom­pertz Curve

DC Meetup: May 22nd

[SEQ RERUN] Self-de­cep­tion: Hypocrisy or Akra­sia?

How and Why to Granularize

Space-worthiness

Pas­cal’s Mug­ging—Pe­nal­iz­ing the prior prob­a­bil­ity?

How some al­gorithms feel from inside

Beyond Smart and Stupid

Values vs. parameters

Coloniza­tion mod­els: a tu­to­rial on com­pu­ta­tional Bayesian in­fer­ence (part 2/​2)

Coloniza­tion mod­els: a pro­gram­ming tu­to­rial (Part 1/​2)

Off-topic: Rus­sian ma­chine translation

Life Ex­ten­sion through Diet Modification

Fine-tuned for In­ter­est­ing­ness vs. Ram­sey’s Theorem

[SEQ RERUN] Chrono­phone Motivations

[LINK] Two ar­ti­cles on Bitcoin

Fu­ture Filters [draft]

Ban­ga­lore Meetup: 28th May

Con­cep­tual Anal­y­sis and Mo­ral Theory

Hous­ton Hack­erspace Meetup: Sun­day May 22, 5:00PM

Prob­a­bil­ity up­dat­ing ques­tion − 99.9999% chance of tails, heads on first flip

Co­er­cion is far