Why CFAR?

A cri­tique of effec­tive altruism

Build­ing Phenomenolog­i­cal Bridges

Med­i­ta­tion: a self-experiment

How the Grinch Ought to Have Stolen Christmas

Re­view of Scott Adams’ “How to Fail at Al­most Every­thing and Still Win Big”

Per­sonal ex­am­ples of se­man­tic stopsigns

The Statis­ti­cian’s Fallacy

Doubt, Science, and Mag­i­cal Crea­tures—a Child’s Perspective

The Limits of In­tel­li­gence and Me: Do­main Expertise

The Lo­gi­cian And The God-Emperor

Luck I: Find­ing White Swans

Nat­u­ral­is­tic trust among AIs: The parable of the the­sis ad­vi­sor’s theorem

Anony­mous feed­back forms revisited

Kurzban et al. on op­por­tu­nity cost mod­els of men­tal fa­tigue and re­source-based mod­els of willpower

MIRI’s Win­ter 2013 Match­ing Challenge

What is the Main/​Dis­cus­sion dis­tinc­tion, and what should it be?

Donat­ing to MIRI vs. FHI vs. CEA vs. CFAR

Walk­through of the Tiling Agents for Self-Mod­ify­ing AI paper

Cri­tiquing Gary Taubes, Part 1: Main­stream Nutri­tion Science on Obesity

Ex­am­ples in Mathematics

In­ter­na­tional co­op­er­a­tion vs. AI arms race

[Meta] Post-meetup re­ports and discussion

Worse than Worthless

Walk­through of “Defin­abil­ity of Truth in Prob­a­bil­is­tic Logic”

In Praise of Tribes that Pre­tend to Try: Counter-”Cri­tique of Effec­tive Altru­ism”

an eth­i­cal puz­zle about brain emulation

Lo­cal truth

De­cem­ber Monthly Brag­ging Thread

Ri­tual Re­port: Bos­ton Sols­tice Celebration

CFAR has a matched-dona­tions fundraiser go­ing on [LINK]

[Link] Anti-age­ing com­pound set for hu­man trials

[LINK] Med­i­ta­tion Can De­bias The Mind

Cir­cu­lar be­lief updating

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes De­cem­ber 2013

Rea­sons to believe

On­line vs. Per­sonal Conversations

Think­ing Fast and Slow for Kin­dle $3 at Amazon

Karma awards for proofread­ers of the Less Wrong Se­quences ebook

Luck II: Ex­pect­ing White Swans

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 28, chap­ter 99-101

Open thread for De­cem­ber 17-23, 2013

[Link] Good Judg­ment Pro­ject, Sea­son Three

CFAR Win­ter 2013 Fundraiser

Cri­tiquing Gary Taubes, Part 3: Did the US Govern­ment Give Us Ab­surd Ad­vice About Su­gar?

Snow­d­eniz­ing UFAI

Open thread for De­cem­ber 9 − 16, 2013

How to not be a fatal­ist? Need help from peo­ple who care about true be­liefs.

Meetup : Lon­don Prac­ti­cal Meetup—Cal­ibra­tion Train­ing!

De­cem­ber 2013 Me­dia Thread