LessWrong help desk—free pa­per down­loads and more

Meetup : Win­ter Sols­tice Megameetup—NYC

Meetup : Brus­sels meetup

Rais­ing the waterline

[Book Re­view] “The Sig­nal and the Noise: Why So Many Pre­dic­tions Fail—But Some Don’t.”, by Nate Silver

[SEQ RERUN] Aiming at the Target

[LINK] Learn­ing with­out prac­tice, through fMRI induction

Giulio Tononi’s “In­te­grated In­for­ma­tion The­ory” of Consciousness

On­line Op­ti­mal Philan­thropy Meetup: Tue 10/​9, 8pm ET

[LINK] The half-life of a fact

Ra­tion­al­ity: Ap­pre­ci­at­ing Cog­ni­tive Algorithms

Skill: The Map is Not the Territory

[link] Pei Wang: Mo­ti­va­tion Man­age­ment in AGI Systems

What I Learned About Meetup Organization

Meetup : Sofia, Bul­garia Meetup

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC Show and tell meetup: Economics

[Link] In­side the Cold, Calcu­lat­ing Mind of LessWrong?

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Ber­lin, Melbourne, Moscow, Pur­due, Vienna, Wash­ing­ton DC

[Link] Tech­nol­ogy will de­stroy hu­man nature

We won’t be able to recog­nise the hu­man Gödel sentence

Hang­man as anal­ogy for Nat­u­ral Selection

“Hide com­ments in down­voted threads” is now active

[SEQ RERUN] Belief in Intelligence

Walk­ing and Chew­ing Gum

[LINK] Differ­ent heuris­tics at differ­ent de­ci­sion speeds

[SEQ RERUN] Ex­pected Creative Surprises

De­liber­ate Prac­tice for De­ci­sion Making

Fun fact: in med­i­cal school, we had a mini-les­son on com­mon cog­ni­tive er­rors in medicine

[Link] Knowl­edge, not opinion, in­for­ma­tion ex­trac­tion, not persuasion

Cog­ni­tive bias and conservatism

[Link] No­bel lau­re­ate challenges psy­chol­o­gists to clean up their act

[Link] The real end of science

Par­ent­ing and Happiness

Tak­ing “cor­re­la­tion does not im­ply cau­sa­tion” back from the internet

Meetup : Differ­ent lo­ca­tion: Berkeley meetup

[SEQ RERUN] In­ner Goodness

When does some­thing stop be­ing a “self-con­sis­tent idea” and be­come sci­en­tific fact?

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Oc­to­ber 2012

The Use­ful Idea of Truth

The difficulty in pre­dict­ing AI, in three lines

Meetup : Fort Col­lins, Colorado Meetup Thurs­day 7pm *New Place*

Meetup : Bielefeld Meetup, Oc­to­ber 9th

Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 10/​1/​12

[SEQ RERUN] Which Parts Are “Me”?

[LINK] Higher in­tel­li­gence cor­re­lates with greater cooperation

Oc­to­ber 2012 Me­dia Thread

Open Thread, Oc­to­ber 1-15, 2012

[SEQ RERUN] Ethics Notes

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign, IL

Meetup : DC Meetup: Boardgames