Philo­soph­i­cal Landmines

Imi­ta­tion is the Sincer­est Form of Argument

A brief his­tory of eth­i­cally con­cerned scientists

Offi­cial LW un­cen­sored thread (on Red­dit)

Pin­point­ing Utility

The Sin­gu­lar­ity Wars

Ra­tion­al­ist Lent

Memetic Tribalism

The Fun­da­men­tal Ques­tion—Ra­tion­al­ity com­puter game design

Learn­ing crit­i­cal think­ing: a per­sonal example

Nat­u­ral­ism ver­sus un­bounded (or un­max­imis­able) util­ity options

An at­tempt to dis­solve sub­jec­tive ex­pec­ta­tion and per­sonal identity

S.E.A.R.L.E’s COBOL room

Three Axes of Prohibitions

Think Like a Supervillain

LW Women: LW Online

Great ra­tio­nal­ity posts by LWers not posted to LW

[Link] Power of Suggestion

Vi­sual Men­tal Imagery Training

[sug­ges­tion] New Meetup Tab

[Link] The Stan­ford Su­per­man Ex­per­i­ment: An­chor­ing Em­pa­thy?

The Wrong­ness Iceberg

What are your rules of thumb?

[Link] False mem­o­ries of fabri­cated poli­ti­cal events

Offer: I’ll match dona­tions to the Against Malaria Foundation

“What-the-hell” Cog­ni­tive Failure Mode: a Separate Bias or a Com­bi­na­tion of Other Bi­ases?

VNM agents and lot­ter­ies in­volv­ing an in­finite num­ber of pos­si­ble outcomes

Save the princess: A tale of AIXI and util­ity functions

Me­mory, nu­tri­tion, mo­ti­va­tion, and genes

[LINK] Open Source Soft­ware Devel­oper with Ter­mi­nal Ill­ness Hopes to Opt Out of Death

[LINK] The Cry­op­reser­va­tion of Kim Suozzi

Self-as­sess­ment in ex­pert AI predictions

Cryo: Le­gal fees of $2500

Link: blog on effec­tive altruism

[LINK] “Scott and Scurvy”: a re­minder of the messi­ness of sci­en­tific progress

[Link] To­masik’s “Quan­tify with Care”

[LINK] Western­ers may be ter­rible ex­per­i­men­tal psy­chol­ogy subjects

Idea: Self-Im­prov­ing Task Man­age­ment Software

Why Bayes? A Wise Ruling

CEA does not seem to be cred­ibly high impact

Call for dis­cus­sion: Sig­nal­ling and/​vs. accomplishment

Fea­ture re­quest: Green glow for “con­tinue this thread”

Does evolu­tion se­lect for mor­tal­ity?

A Series of In­creas­ingly Per­verse and Destruc­tive Games

How to offend a ra­tio­nal­ist (who hasn’t thought about it yet): a life lesson

Higher than the most high

Hu­mor: GURPS Friendly AI

Im­prov­ing Hu­man Ra­tion­al­ity Through Cog­ni­tive Change (in­tro)

Need help with an MLP fan­fic­tion with a tran­shu­man­ist theme.

Givewell Sur­vey—Op­por­tu­nity to in­fluence their research