How can we get more and bet­ter LW con­trar­i­ans?

The Quick Bayes Table

[link]Mass repli­ca­tion of Psy­chol­ogy ar­ti­cles planed.

[link] Why We Rea­son (psy­chol­ogy blog)

If you can’t be right, at least be relevant

[META] Karma count­ing problem

[SEQ RERUN] On Be­ing Decoherent

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 16, chap­ter 85

Vi­sual maps of the his­tor­i­cal ar­gu­ments in the topic, “Can com­put­ers think?”

[META] Alter­na­tives to rot13 and karma sinks

Meetup : Big Berkeley Meetup

Ques­tion: Be­ing un­cer­tain with­out wor­ry­ing?

Who’s afraid of im­pos­si­ble wor­lds?

Ques­tion about brains and big numbers

How ac­cu­rate is the quan­tum physics se­quence?

[SEQ RERUN] Where Ex­pe­rience Con­fuses Physicists

Ex­pla­na­tions of math­e­mat­i­cal explanation

The Blue School

Us­ing Peo­ple’s Ir­ra­tional­ity To Do Good by Les­lie John

Meetup : First Copen­hagen meetup

In­ter­est­ing ra­tio­nal­ist ex­er­cise about French election

Server Sky: lots of very thin com­puter satellites

In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sion vs. Co-op­er­a­tive Explosion

Knowl­edge value = knowl­edge qual­ity × do­main importance

Meetup : Tel Aviv, Israel

How was your meetup?

Open Thread, April 16 − 30, 2012

[SEQ RERUN] Where Physics Meets Experience

Be Happier

Meetup : São Paulo Meet Up 2

Meetup : Cam­bridge, MA Third Sun­day Meetup

Meetup : Cam­bridge, MA First Sun­day Meetup

More in­tu­itive pro­gram­ming languages

Meetup : Bu­dapest Meetup

‘Think­ing, Fast and Slow’ Chap­ter Sum­maries /​ Notes [link]

[SEQ RERUN] Which Ba­sis Is More Fun­da­men­tal?

Sugges­tions needed: good ar­ti­cles for a meetup discussion

Should “lat­est in­sights” ap­pear in the front page blurb?

Should the front page in­clude the phrase “lat­est in­sights”?

Our Phyg Is Not Ex­clu­sive Enough

Are Mag­i­cal Cat­e­gories Rel­a­tively Sim­ple?

De­ci­sion The­o­ries: A Semi-For­mal Anal­y­sis, Part III

Meetup : Fort Lauderdale

Meetup : Fort Lauderdale

[SEQ RERUN] The So-Called Heisen­berg Uncer­tainty Principle

Meetup : Pitts­burgh—Pre­sen­ta­tion on Anthropics

Cen­ter for Modern Ra­tion­al­ity cur­rently hiring: Ex­ec­u­tive as­sis­tants, Teach­ers, Re­search as­sis­tants, Con­sul­tants.

Weekly LW Mee­tups: At­lanta, Austin, Madi­son, Melbourne, Salt Lake City, Vancouver

In­tel­li­gence risk and dis­tance to endgame

Why I Moved from AI to Neu­ro­science, or: Upload­ing Worms