Is Poli­tics the Mind­kil­ler? An In­con­clu­sive Test

SI’s Sum­mer 2012 Match­ing Drive Ends July 31st

E.T. Jaynes and Hugh Everett—in­cludes a pre­vi­ously un­pub­lished re­view by Jaynes of a pub­lished short ver­sion of Everett’s dissertation

Ir­ra­tional­ity Game II

PZ My­ers on the In­fea­si­bil­ity of Whole Brain Emulation

Evolu­tion­ary psy­chol­ogy as “the truth-kil­ler”

Low hang­ing fruit: Web­sites that sig­nifi­cantly im­prove your life?

We pros­e­cute CEOs for failing to do due dili­gence. But with peo­ple, we call it ‘faith’

Should LW have a sep­a­rate AI sec­tion?

Link: Glial cells shown to be in­volved in work­ing memory

[Link] Why prison doesn’t work and what to do about it

Malthu­sian copy­ing: mass death of un­happy life-lov­ing uploads

Why space stopped cap­ti­vat­ing minds ?

Muehlhauser-Hib­bard Dialogue on AGI

[LINK] In­fer­ring the rate of psy­chopa­thy from road­kill experiment

Zero-sum con­ver­sion: a cute trick for de­ci­sion problems

Brain struc­ture—scans re­veal an amaz­ingly reg­u­lar pattern

Wor­ld­viewNat­u­ral­ism.com: A “land­ing page” for sci­en­tific naturalism

Upload­ing: what about the car­bon-based ver­sion?

[SEQ RERUN] Ex­is­ten­tial Angst Factory

[Ap­pli­ca­tions Closed] The Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute is hiring re­mote LaTeX editors

Stupid Ques­tions Open Thread Round 3

[link] Pre­pared to wait? New re­search challenges the idea that we favour small re­wards now over big­ger later

New book on athe­ism, tran­shu­man­ism, and x-risk

Sum­mary thread for Coursera classes

[SEQ RERUN] Con­tam­i­nated by Optimism

[LINK] Nick Sz­abo: Be­ware Pas­cal’s Scams

Log­ging progress im­prov­ing con­scien­tious­ness and over­com­ing pro­cras­ti­na­tion at LessWrong

[SEQ RERUN] An­thro­po­mor­phic Optimism

Links about naturalism

[SEQ RERUN] Prob­a­bil­ity is Sub­jec­tively Objective

The Per­cep­tion-Ac­tion Cycle

Meetup : Salt Lake City: The Really Get­ting Bayes Game

July 2012 Me­dia Thread

[LINK] An­chor­ing Bias In Medicine (NYT)

[SEQ RERUN] Sort­ing Peb­bles Into Cor­rect Heaps

[Link] “First Is Best”—The se­rial po­si­tion effect /​ pri­macy effect

Meetup : Berkeley meetup: Ra­tion­al­ist group therapy

[SEQ RERUN] No Log­i­cal Pos­i­tivist I

Mass-mur­der­ing neu­ro­science Ph.D. student

The Prob­lem Of Apostasy

Open Thread, July 16-31, 2012

Meetup : Madi­son: Team Prob­lem-Solving

What Longevity Re­search Most Ex­cites You?

Bos­ton MA: Op­ti­mal Philan­thropy Meetup (July 6th)

[SEQ RERUN] The Gift We Give To Tomorrow

[SEQ RERUN] Ab­stracted Ideal­ized Dynamics

Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute—main­stream me­dia ex­po­sure in Australia

[SEQ RERUN] Can Coun­ter­fac­tu­als Be True?

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes July 2012