Ra­tion­al­ity At­trac­tors in Personspace

Meetup : Mu­nich Meetup, Satur­day Septem­ber 10th, 2PM

Open Thread: Septem­ber 2011

How to hack one’s self to want to want to … hack one’s self.

[LINK] Re­port on the Fourth Con­fer­ence on Ar­tifi­cial Gen­eral In­tel­li­gence

Ro­man­tic efficiency

Gen­der differ­ences in spa­tial rea­son­ing ap­pear to be nurture

Im­pact of In­dia-Pak­istan nu­clear war on x-risk?

A prize to be­come artist in res­i­dence at CERN

Can’t buy me in­stant gratification

[SEQ RERUN] Con­junc­tion Con­tro­versy (Or, How They Nail It Down)

What are good top­ics for liter­a­ture re­view prizes?

[Link] The mis­mea­sure of morals: An­ti­so­cial per­son­al­ity traits pre­dict util­i­tar­ian re­sponses to moral dilemmas

[Link] The Typ­i­cal Mind Fal­lacy, Illustrated

Pro­posal: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Thread With At­tri­bu­tions in rot13

Mini-camp was in­deed awe­some, and so was Luke (just add Bayes)

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Septem­ber 2011

Con­se­quen­tial­ism Need Not Be Nearsighted

Con­trar­i­ans judged mad af­ter be­ing proven right (John Hemp­ton)

Another treat­ment of Direct In­struc­tion get­ting more into the tech­ni­cal de­tails of the theory

Meetup : Orange County Athe­ist Meetup Thurs­day Septem­ber 8

Job Post­ings?

LW Septem­ber We­bDi­plo­macy Games: Start­ing soon!

Meetup : Austin, TX

Cor­re­spon­dence Bias Rev­er­sal?

2011 Sum­mer Match­ing Challenge Suc­cess!

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Is Ra­tion­al­ity Teach­able?

Col­lege course on the Singularity

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Par­tial rewrite of the “Direct In­struc­tion” thing

Meetup : DC Meetup: NoVa

[SEQ RERUN] Con­junc­tion Fallacy

How come ev­ery­one that dis­agrees with me is wrong?

Meetup : Berkeley weekly meetup

Are there bet­ter ways of iden­ti­fy­ing the most cre­ative sci­en­tists?

[LINK] The Illu­sion of Asym­met­ric Insight

Meetup : Ot­tawa Weekly Mon­day LessWrong Meetup

Scien­tifi­cally op­ti­miz­ing ed­u­ca­tion: Hard prob­lem, or solved prob­lem? In­tro­duc­ing the The­ory of Direct Instruction

[SEQ RERUN] Kah­ne­man’s Plan­ning Anecdote

How likely is Peter Thiel’s in­vest­ment into seast­eading to pay off?

My in­ten­tions for my metaethics sequence

Fre­quen­tist vs Bayesian break­down: in­ter­pre­ta­tion vs inference

Ask LW: Pre­dic­tionBook.com and log­i­cal uncertainty

[LINK] “Aca­demic pub­lish­ers make Mur­doch look like a so­cial­ist” says Ge­orge Mon­biot

Can You Build a Bet­ter Paper Clip?

That cat: not dead and alive

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Defrag con­fer­ence scholarships

Philo­soph­i­cal apolo­get­ics book sug­gests re­plac­ing Bayes the­o­rem with “In­fer­ence to the Best Ex­pla­na­tion” (IBE)