How to Find a Per­sonal As­sis­tant to Pro­duce More? Transhumanism

Septem­ber 2012 Me­dia Thread

Fic­tion recom­men­da­tion: “Spur” by Phil Geusz

Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 9/​3/​12

Illus­tra­tion pro­posal for Meth­ods of Rationality

[SEQ RERUN] Hor­rible LHC Inconsistency

How To Ac­tu­ally Change Your Mind eBook (In Order)

Meetup : Berkeley meetup: board game night

Bayesian Con­spir­acy Check-in Post

What’s your “ra­tio­nal­ist ar­gu­ing” ori­gin story?

Call For Agree­ment: Should LessWrong have bet­ter pro­tec­tion against cul­tural col­lapse?

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Septem­ber 2012

[SEQ RERUN] How Many LHC Failures Is Too Many?

Less Wrong ar­ti­cles cat­e­go­rized by read­ing difficulty

Dragon Ball’s Hyper­bolic Time Chamber

Meetup : Cam­bridge (MA) third-Sun­days Meetup

Meetup : Cam­bridge (MA) first-Sun­days meetup

Meetup : Cam­bridge (MA) third-Sun­days meetup

How to tell apart sci­ence from pseudo-sci­ence in a field you don’t know ?

SI is look­ing to hire some­one to finish a De­ci­sion The­ory FAQ

[SEQ RERUN] Say It Loud

Prevent­ing dis­cus­sion from be­ing wa­tered down by an “end­less Septem­ber” user in­flux.

Meetup : Madi­son: Cached Selves

Meta: What do you think of a karma vote check­list?

Open Thread, Septem­ber 1-15, 2012

[SEQ RERUN] The Sheer Folly of Cal­low Youth

Deal­ing with meta-dis­cus­sion and the sig­nal to noise ra­tio

How do we re­ally es­cape Pri­son­ers’ Dilem­mas?

[Link] Quan­tity Always Trumps Quality

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Dorset, Ohio

Deal­ing with trol­ling and the sig­nal to noise ratio

Whole Brain Emu­la­tion : the gen­tle­man’s choice for Friendly AI. Feed­back needed, edit­ing’s a mess.

[SEQ RERUN] A Prodigy of Refutation

Meetup : Washig­ton DC (prob­a­bly) mini­camp meetup

[Link] Short story by Yvain

Utility func­tions and quan­tum mechanics

Do you BayesBlog? Richard Car­rier is look­ing for links

Coun­ter­fac­tual re­siliency test for non-causal models

[META] Karma for last 30 days?

[SEQ RERUN] Raised in Technophilia

Benefits of Calorie Restric­tion Linked To Other Factors

What Are You Do­ing for Self-Quan­tifi­ca­tion?

[LINK] A Meta-In­duc­tive Ap­proach to Hume’s Prob­lem of Induction

[SEQ RERUN] My Best and Worst Mistake

What’s the Value of In­for­ma­tion?

Is felt prefer­ence a use­ful in­di­ca­tor? (A ram­ble)

Ex­pected util­ity and util­ity af­ter time

11 minute TED talk is about in­stru­men­tal rationality

Ri­gor­ous aca­demic ar­gu­ments on whether AIs can re­place all hu­man work­ers?

Meetup : Berkeley meetup: Cannabis, De­ci­sion-Mak­ing, And A Chance To Change Your Mind