My fa­vorite pop­u­lar sci­en­tific self-help books

Athe­isim Red­dit Rage Comic

Free On­line Stan­ford Courses: AI and Ma­chine Learning

Lan­guage, Color Per­cep­tion, and Men­tal Maps

Dub­step and al­gorith­mic in­for­ma­tion theory

Word Pronunciation

Old OB re­post: Share like­li­hood ra­tios, not pos­te­rior beliefs

Prob­a­bly-in­com­pre­hen­si­ble de­ci­sion the­ory ex­po­si­tion and speculation

[SEQ RERUN] How to Con­vince Me That 2 + 2 = 3

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Ot­tawa, West LA, Orange County, Wash­ing­ton DC, Melbourne, Shanghai

Ra­tional Communication

Statis­ti­cal er­ror in half of neu­ro­science papers

Tool ideology

Liv­ing For­ever is Hard, part 2: Adult Longevity

Op­ti­mal User-End In­ter­net Se­cu­rity (Or, Ra­tional In­ter­net Brows­ing)

What are good tech­niques and re­sources for teach­ing bayes the­o­rem hands on?

[SEQ RERUN] Oc­cam’s Razor

JSTOR gives pub­lic ac­cess to pre-1870 publications

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 9

Part­ners in schol­ar­ship—Search and Find

Schol­ar­ship Booster: My fa­vorite journals

An at­tempt to ‘ex­plain away’ virtue ethics

“Friends do not let friends com­pute p val­ues.”

Hu­man con­scious­ness as a tractable sci­en­tific problem

Meetup : Seat­tle Biweekly Meetup: Oc­cam’s Ra­zor, Rep­e­ti­tion and Time’s Up

[Story] Rejection

Op­ti­mal User-End In­ter­net Se­cu­rity (Or, Ra­tional In­ter­net Brows­ing)

Meetup : Van­cou­ver Ra­tion­al­ists: LAN Party + Board Games + Dis­cus­sion at Waves Cafe: Septem­ber 10th 3:00 to 5:00PM

[Link] New arm of GiveWell Re­search: GiveWell Labs

New arm of GiveWell Re­search: GiveWell Labs [Link]

Pres­sure to pub­lish in­creases sci­en­tists’ vuln­er­a­bil­ity to pos­i­tive bias

Meetup : Fort Col­lins, Colorado Meetup

[Ques­tion] Do you know a good game or demo for demon­strat­ing sunk costs?

Ra­tion­al­ity Boot [Mini]Camp… night class style?

Rough calcu­la­tions: Fermi and the art of guessing

Video: You Are Not So Smart

[SEQ RERUN] Ein­stein’s Arrogance

Why do peo­ple com­mit math­e­mat­i­cal mis­takes? What are the mechanisms be­hind them?

Is That Your True Re­jec­tion? by Eliezer Yud­kowsky @ Cato Unbound

Meetup : Ot­tawa Weekly Meetup

Can we rely on busi­ness as usual to get us to the fu­ture?

Do­ing med­i­cal re­search with (a lot) of per­sonal money [link]

A 2011 sum­mary of mod­ern in­tel­li­gence tests

The be­gin­nings of a test for Ra­tion­al­ity Quotient

Jour­nal ar­ti­cle about poli­tics and mindkilling

Safety can be dangerous

[SEQ RERUN] How Much Ev­i­dence Does It Take?

[Ques­tion] What’s your Ele­va­tor Pitch For Ra­tion­al­ity?

Free re­search help, edit­ing and ar­ti­cle down­loads for LessWrong

Another ‘prize’ sug­ges­tion.