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Who owns LessWrong?

[pa­per draft] Co­a­lesc­ing minds: brain up­load­ing-re­lated group mind scenarios

Free Tu­tor­ing in Math/​Programming

Weak sup­port­ing ev­i­dence can un­der­mine belief

Hall, “Ethics for Self-Im­prov­ing Machines” (2011)

‘New­comblike’ Video Game: Frozen Synapse

[SEQ RERUN] Hold Off On Propos­ing Solutions

Meetup : Bal­ti­more meetup

The effects of re­li­gion (draft)

Wanted: backup plans for “seed AI turns out to be easy”

Re­v­ersed stu­pidity some­times pro­vides use­ful information

Meetup : Hous­ton Meetup—Satur­day, Oc­to­ber 1

Quixey—startup ap­ply­ing LW-style ra­tio­nal­ity—hiring engineers

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes With At­tri­bu­tions Hid­den: from Mein Kampf to Men****x

Meetup : Chicago Meetup

[SEQ RERUN] The Log­i­cal Fal­lacy of Gen­er­al­iz­ing from Fic­tional Evidence

Ye­hweh and the Meth­ods of Rationality

Con­cepts Don’t Work That Way

$100 off for Less Wrong: Sin­gu­lar­ity Sum­mit 2011 on Oct 15 − 16 in New York

A Ra­tion­al­ist’s Tale

Cry­onic sus­pen­sion where?

MIT Challenge: blog­ger to at­tempt CS cur­ricu­lum on own

Paid DC in­tern­ship for autis­tics with tech­ni­cal skills who are re­cent col­lege graduates

Prim­ing with Hy­po­thet­i­cal questions

Ed­ward Nel­son claims proof of in­con­sis­tency in Peano Arithmetic

[SEQ RERUN] How to Seem (and Be) Deep

How to in­cen­tivize peo­ple do­ing use­ful stuff on Less Wrong

Sur­vey on X-risk: Feed­back needed

Bio­p­reser­va­tion (of the cells of nearly-ex­tinct an­i­mals) in hopes that fu­ture tech can re­store them

My ra­tio­nal­ity story: Goals aren’t what you think they are

Stanis­lav Petrov Day

Meetup : Melbourne, prac­ti­cal ra­tio­nal­ity, Fri­day 7th Oc­to­ber, 7pm

Epistemic Utility Ar­gu­ments for Prob­a­bil­ism [Link]

Hard prob­lem? Hack away at the edges.

[gooey re­quest-for-help] I don’t know what to do.

[SEQ RERUN] Origi­nal Seeing

LessWrong gam­ing community

LessWrong gam­ing community

How Likely Is Cry­on­ics To Work?

Guardian An­gels: Discrete Ex­trap­o­lated Volitions

A boltz­mann brain ques­tion.

Con­vinc­ing my dad to sign up for Al­cor: Ad­vice?

Ideas for heuris­tics and bi­ases re­search topic?

What if we make bet­ter de­ci­sions when we trust our gut in­stincts? [Link]

Meetup : Fort Col­lins, Colorado Meetup Wed­nes­day Sept 28 7pm

SIAI vs. FHI achieve­ments, 2008-2010

Cog­ni­tive Neu­ro­science, Ar­row’s Im­pos­si­bil­ity The­o­rem, and Co­her­ent Ex­trap­o­lated Volition

Trou­ble with Bayes The­o­rem? (The ac­tual math is con­fus­ing)

[SEQ RERUN] The “Out­side the Box” Box