Mod­ify­ing Univer­sal In­tel­li­gence Measure

A Less Mys­te­ri­ous Mind­ful­ness Exercise

The Nanny State Didn’t Show Up, You Hired It [LINK]

Which ques­tions about on­line classes would you ask Peter Norvig?

[LINK] “Junk” DNA re­vealed as in­for­ma­tion pro­cess­ing sys­tem?

The Bayesian Agent

[SEQ RERUN] Make an Ex­traor­di­nary Effort

[LINK] ‘Blue Brain’ Pro­ject Ac­cu­rately Pre­dicts Con­nec­tions Between Neurons

Meetup : Ber­lin Meetup

[SEQ RERUN] On Do­ing the Impossible

Gaug­ing in­ter­est for an Auck­land meetup group.

Recom­men­da­tions for good au­dio books?

The raw-ex­pe­rience dogma: Dis­solv­ing the “qualia” problem

Meta: What tool turns rich text into clean HTML?

Prob­lems with foren­sics, in­clud­ing bias af­fect­ing DNA testimony

[SEQ RERUN] My Bayesian Enlightenment

[LINK] Mo­ti­va­tional Ver­sus Metabolic Effects of Car­bo­hy­drates on Self-Control

Scien­tists make mon­keys smarter us­ing brain im­plants [link]

Us­ing LW-style Multi-Wor­lds as source of technobabble

[study] Ego de­ple­tion might dis­ap­pear with age

High School Lectures

Open Thread, Septem­ber 15-30, 2012

Video (11 min): fal­la­cies in nu­tri­tion and can­cer re­search.

In­tro­duc­ing Simplexity

Eliezer’s Se­quences and Main­stream Academia

The Rosen­han Experiment

Meetup : Van­cou­ver!

[Link] Scott Adam’s “God’s De­bris”

Meetup : Pitts­burgh: Mind Hack Show and Tell

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Ohio

How about test­ing our ideas?

[SEQ RERUN] Beyond the Reach of God

Ex­per­i­men­tal psy­chol­ogy on word confusion

Ques­tion on de­co­her­ence and vir­tual particles

Fal­la­cies of reifi­ca­tion—the placebo effect

[SEQ RERUN] Use the Try Harder, Luke

[LINK] Me­te­o­rol­o­gists are Epistem­i­cally Rational

Meetup : Dc Zendo meetup

Re­quest for a cry­on­ics de­ci­sion flowchart

Un­der-ac­knowl­edged Value Differences

Liv­ing ac­com­mo­da­tions for my pos­si­bly de­con­verted Mor­mon friend

Meetup : Melbourne so­cial meetup

The Yud­kowsky Am­bi­tion Scale

Meetup : West LA Meetup—“The Un­rea­son­able Effec­tive­ness of Math­e­mat­ics in the Nat­u­ral Sciences”

Meta: LW Policy: When to pro­hibit Alice from re­ply­ing to Bob’s ar­gu­ments?

Meetup : Madi­son: Read­ing Group, See­ing with Fresh Eyes

[SEQ RERUN] Try­ing to Try

Ran­dom LW-par­o­dy­ing State­ment Generator

[LINK] In­terfluidity on “Ra­tional Astrolo­gies”

Per­sonal in­for­ma­tion management