[LINK] Why Your Cus­tomers Would Be Hap­pier If You Charged More

What are the best books on evolu­tion­ary psy­chol­ogy?

Life-chang­ing de­ci­sions per­tain­ing to ed­u­ca­tion. Help.

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Brus­sels, Cam­bridge MA, Chicago, Madi­son, Melbourne, Salt Lake City, Syd­ney, Wash­ing­ton DC

[SEQ RERUN] The Ritual

Prin­ci­pals, agents, ne­go­ti­a­tion, and precommitments

New study on choice blind­ness in moral positions

A Math­e­mat­i­cal Ex­pla­na­tion of Why Char­ity Dona­tions Shouldn’t Be Diversified

Any ex­is­ten­tial risk an­gles to the US pres­i­den­tial elec­tion?

[SEQ RERUN] Cri­sis of Faith

A Cri­tique of Lev­er­age Re­search’s Con­nec­tion Theory

Co­op­er­a­tive Sur­plus Splitting

Meetup : Re­search Tri­an­gle Less Wrong

The util­ity-max­i­miz­ing com­plex­ity of con­scious beings

Think­ing in an­other lan­guage could re­duce biases

Let’s talk about politics

Meetup : Fort Col­lins, Colorado Meetup Thurs­day 7pm

Less Wrong Polls in Comments

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign, IL

Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 9/​17/​12

Brief Ques­tion about FAI approaches

[SEQ RERUN] Shut up and do the im­pos­si­ble!

Meetup : Berkeley meetup

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!