On learn­ing difficult things

Wait vs In­ter­rupt Culture

2013 Less Wrong Cen­sus/​Survey

Yes, Virginia, You Can Be 99.99% (Or More!) Cer­tain That 53 Is Prime

I no­tice that I am con­fused about Iden­tity and Resurrection

A di­a­gram for a sim­ple two-player game

No Univer­sally Com­pel­ling Ar­gu­ments in Math or Science

The dan­gers of zero and one

2013 Cen­sus/​Sur­vey: call for changes and additions

Book Re­view: Com­putabil­ity and Logic

[link] Psy­chol­o­gists strike a blow for reproducibility

Lone Ge­nius Bias and Re­turns on Ad­di­tional Researchers

Aca­demic Cliques

Hal­loween thread—ra­tio­nal­ist’s hor­rors.

Help the Brain Preser­va­tion Foundation

Notic­ing some­thing com­pletely ab­surd about yourself

From Philos­o­phy to Math to Engineering

LessWrong Study Hall will be pass­word-protected

Main­stream Episte­mol­ogy for LessWrong, Part 1: Feld­man on Evidentialism

The Ineffi­ciency of The­o­ret­i­cal Discovery

Self-serv­ing meta: Who­ever keeps block-down­vot­ing me, is there some way to ne­go­ti­ate peace?

Quan­tum ver­sus log­i­cal bombs

Hap­piness and Pro­duc­tivity. Liv­ing Alone. Liv­ing with Friends. Liv­ing with Fam­ily.

MIRI course list study pairs

A model of AI development

Kid­nap­ping and the game of Chicken

Meetup: Some­where you do not live even close to

On Wal­mart, And Who Bears Re­spon­si­bil­ity For the Poor

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Cry­on­ics, Con­test Results

The Witch­ing Hour

Lon­don LW CoZE ex­er­cise report

How to have high-value conversations

Re­duced im­pact AI: no back channels

[Link] Lost and Found

The Evolu­tion­ary Heuris­tic and Ra­tion­al­ity Techniques

Prob­a­bil­ity and rad­i­cal uncertainty

What can we learn from freema­sonry?

Non-stan­dard cryo ideas

Be Skep­ti­cal of Cor­re­la­tional Studies

Buy­ing Debt as Effec­tive Altru­ism?

How to choose a coun­try/​city?

Re­search on un­con­scious vi­sual processing

The Restora­tion of William: the skele­ton of a short story about re­s­ur­rec­tion and identity

A Work­flow with Spaced Repetition

The Ape Con­straint dis­cus­sion meet­ing.

Some thoughts on re­la­tions be­tween ma­jor eth­i­cal systems

CRISPR opens up new ge­netic en­g­ineer­ing potential

[Link] Bet Your Friends to Be More Right

Brain Preser­va­tion Foun­da­tion ask me any­thing on Red­dit 7:00PM EST Thurs­day Nov 21

Weak re­pug­nant con­clu­sion need not be so re­pug­nant given fixed resources