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.

Meetup : Hous­ton Meetup 9/​11

How mem­ory works—video lec­ture from Stanford

La­tex sup­port?

Case Study: Read­ing Edge’s fi­nan­cial filings

[SEQ RERUN] The Lens That Sees Its Flaws

[LINK] Peo­ple are bi­ased against creativity

Pri­soner’s Dilemma Tour­na­ment Results

De­ci­sion The­ory Para­dox: An­swer Key

Meetup : UMD, So­cial Effec­tive­ness and Cal­ibra­tion Exercises

The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Tri­als of Amanda Knox

[SEQ RERUN] What is Ev­i­dence?

The Car­bo­hy­drate Hy­poth­e­sis of Obe­sity: A Crit­i­cal Examination

What Direct In­struc­tion is

Pod­cast on Cry­on­ics by ‘Stuff you should know’

[Link] “How to seem good at ev­ery­thing: Stop do­ing stupid shit”

Make ev­i­dence charts, not re­view pa­pers? [Link]

Hack­ing on LessWrong Just Got Easier

Elqayam & Evans (2011) ar­gue against a cer­tain kind of nor­ma­tivism about rationality

On Eliezer’s post “The Cluster Struc­ture of Thingspace”

Table of cog­ni­tive tasks that do and do not show cor­re­la­tions with cog­ni­tive ability

[SEQ RERUN] Bur­den­some Details

July 2011 re­view of ex­per­i­men­tal philosophy

What is the most ra­tio­nal view of Peak Oil and its near term con­se­quences?

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