New book on athe­ism, tran­shu­man­ism, and x-risk

Valuable Things to Know While Dis­cussing Mo­ral Philosophy

What Is Sig­nal­ing, Really?

[SEQ RERUN] Math is Sub­junc­tively Objective

What Is Op­ti­mal Philan­thropy?

Ra­tional Ethics

Moder­ate al­co­hol con­sump­tion in­versely cor­re­lated with all-cause mortality

Use­ful maxims

Kurzweil’s pre­dic­tions: good ac­cu­racy, poor self-calibration

An In­tu­itive Ex­pla­na­tion of Solomonoff Induction

[SEQ RERUN] Can Coun­ter­fac­tu­als Be True?

Ra­tion­al­ity and Cancer

Meetup : Van­cou­ver Big Monthly

Re­ply to Holden on The Sin­gu­lar­ity Institute

SI vis­it­ing fel­low Diego Caleiro gives a TED talk on Friendly AI

Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 7/​9/​12

Cul­tural norms in choice of mate

[SEQ RERUN] When (Not) To Use Probabilities

Steam Greenlight

Dual N-Back browser-based “game” in pub­lic alpha-test­ing state.

Low hang­ing fruit: Web­sites that sig­nifi­cantly im­prove your life?

Should LW have a sep­a­rate AI sec­tion?

Muehlhauser-Hib­bard Dialogue on AGI

How Bayes’ the­o­rem is con­sis­tent with Solomonoff induction

Ad­vice On Get­ting A Soft­ware Job

Value of a Com­pu­ta­tional Pro­cess?

[link] Cargo Cult Debugging

Meetup : Ed­in­burgh sum­mer meetup

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC Cal­ibra­tion Games meetup

Nick Bostrom’s TED talk and set­ting priorities

[SEQ RERUN] Fake Norms, or “Truth” vs. Truth

Ra­tion­al­ity Games & Apps Brainstorming

Meetup : Fort Col­lins, Colorado Meetup Thurs­day 7pm

Mo­ral­ity open thread

[SEQ RERUN] Should We Ban Physics?

Links about naturalism

To Learn Crit­i­cal Think­ing, Study Crit­i­cal Thinking

Stupid Ques­tions Open Thread Round 3

[SEQ RERUN] Ex­is­ten­tial Angst Factory

In­ter­lude for Be­hav­ioral Economics

Trans­parency in In­surance (Edit: Solu­tion found)

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Cali, Columbia; Melbourne; Pitts­burgh; St. Petersburg

Meetup : Berkeley meta-meetup

Meetup : Madi­son: Prob­a­bil­ity Calibration

Nega­tive and Pos­i­tive Selection

[SEQ RERUN] Could Any­thing Be Right?

On the Care and Feed­ing of Young Ra­tion­al­ists—Re­vis­ited[Draft] [Re­quest for Feed­back]

Less Wrong views on moral­ity?

Meetup : First New Jersey Meetup

Should you try to do good work on LW?