What Cu­ri­os­ity Looks Like

Nick Bostrom TED talk on world’s biggest problems

Less wrong has a fi­toc­racy group (in­vites)

More in­tu­itive ex­pla­na­tions!

Ex­plained: Gödel’s the­o­rem and the Banach-Tarski Paradox

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Fort Col­lins and Melbourne

[SEQ RERUN] The Parable of Hemlock

Roger Willi­ams (Author of Me­ta­mor­pho­sis of Prime In­tel­lect) on Singularity

Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute Ex­ec­u­tive Direc­tor Q&A #2

[link] Post-doc po­si­tion available at FHI

[POLL] Wis­dom of the Crowd experiment

Re­quest for ad­vice- Read­ing on politics

Meetup : Seat­tle Board Games

Ba­con­mas: The holi­day for the sciences

[Link] Eval­u­at­ing ex­perts on expertise

Giv­ing: is money bet­ter than op­tions?

Quan­tified Health Prize Dead­line Extended

Quixey is hiring a writer

[SEQ RERUN] The Parable of the Dagger

[Link] ASPERGERS/​PUA offi­cial uni­ver­sity re­search project

East Coast Megameetup II: Re­quest for Talks

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Pro­fes­sional Pa­tients: Fraud that ru­ins studies

[LINK] An­tide­pres­sants: Bad Drugs… Or Bad Pa­tients?

Anger To Warm Fuzzies With DNS

[META] ‘Ra­tional’ vs ‘Op­ti­mized’

[Link] Duolingo

HPMoR.com

Vi­su­al­iz­ing effect sizes

Meetup : Fort Col­lins, Colorado Meetup

[link] Anger as an­ti­dote to Con­fir­ma­tion Bias

Meetup : At­lanta, GA

Utili­tar­i­ans prob­a­bly wast­ing time on recreation

Meetup : Austin, TX

[META] Trackbacks

De­scribe your per­sonal Mount Stupid

Meetup : First Syd­ney 2012 meetup.

Sim­ple the­ory of IMDB bias

[SEQ RERUN] New­comb’s Prob­lem and Re­gret of Rationality

An in­ducible group-”med­i­ta­tion” for use in ra­tio­nal­ity dojos

[SEQ RERUN] Some­thing to Protect

[META] In­tro­duc­tion thread at­ti­tudes and discussions

An eth­i­cal de­bate that’s turn­ing very sour

Ad­vice Re­quest: Ba­con­mas Website

Jan­uary 2012 Me­dia Thread

How con­fi­dent should we be?

New­comb’s prob­lem—one boxer’s in­tro­spec­tion.

Ra­tion­al­ity quotes Jan­uary 2012

New Year’s Pre­dic­tion Thread (2012)

So You Want to Save the World