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.

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.