How can peo­ple be ac­tu­ally con­verted?

The Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute needs re­mote re­searchers (writ­ing skill not re­quired)

Cargo Cult Language

Cu­ri­ous au­thors and ’zines?

Fe­bru­ary 2012 Me­dia Thread

What are you work­ing on? Fe­bru­ary 2012

[Link] Cog­ni­tive Sciences Stack Ex­change opened

On­line Mee­tups (Megameetup Telep­res­ence Re­sults)

What are some cool things a LWer can do at Yale, Brown, and UChicago?

[SEQ RERUN] Ar­gu­ing “By Defi­ni­tion”

East Coast Megameet Google Han­gout, to­day at 3PM

Top 5 re­grets of the dy­ing [link]

Quan­tifi­ca­tion of eye­wit­ness re­li­a­bil­ity?

Is Sunk Cost Fal­lacy a Fal­lacy?

[SEQ RERUN] Sneak­ing in Connotations

less­wrong.ru do­main for trans­la­tion pro­ject?

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Cam­bridge, Hous­ton, Melbourne, Pitts­burgh, Van­cou­ver, Waterloo

Fire­place Delu­sions [LINK]

Meetup : Salt Lake City Meetup #2

For­mu­las of ar­ith­metic that be­have like de­ci­sion agents

One last roll of the dice

What will ra­tio­nal­ity look like in the fu­ture?

Ques­tion on math in “A Tech­ni­cal Ex­pla­na­tion of Tech­ni­cal Ex­pla­na­tion”

Ele­va­tor pitches/​re­sponses for ra­tio­nal­ity /​ AI

What math should I learn?

Knowl­edge ready for Ankification

Two Kinds of Ir­ra­tional­ity and How to Avoid One of Them

Teach­ing ra­tio­nal­ity made me bet­ter (at re­search and other things)

Look­ing for in­for­ma­tion on cryonics

On Say­ing the Obvious

[SEQ RERUN] Cat­e­go­riz­ing Has Consequences

Mini-Re­view: ‘The Oxford Hand­book of Philos­o­phy of Cog­ni­tive Science’

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Fe­bru­ary 2012

Au­to­matic pro­gram­ming, an example

Mini-re­view: ‘Prov­ing His­tory: Bayes’ The­o­rem and the Quest for the His­tor­i­cal Je­sus’

von Neu­mann probes and Dyson spheres: what ex­plo­ra­tory en­g­ineer­ing can tell us about the Fermi paradox

[Link] Re­con­struct­ing Speech from Hu­man Au­di­tory Cortex

De­cid­ing what to think about; is it worth­while to have uni­ver­sal util­ity func­tion?

State your phys­i­cal ac­count of ex­pe­rienced color

Open Thread, Fe­bru­ary 1-14, 2012

Writ­ing ra­tio­nal­ist fic­tion: Im­prov­ing an ex­ist­ing set­ting?

Another Real World Ex­am­ple of Cog­ni­tive Bias

Hugo Awards—HP:MoR (part 2)

“The Con­di­tional Fal­lacy in Con­tem­po­rary Philos­o­phy”

Ex­is­ten­tial risk for non-consequentialists

Is risk aver­sion re­ally ir­ra­tional ?

Dar­win Day: Good Evolu­tion Games?

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Do­ing Science! Open Thread Ex­per­i­ment Results

Risk aver­sion vs. con­cave util­ity function