[link] Scott Aaron­son on free will

[Link] Sta­tus Anxiety

Are imag­i­nary and com­plex num­bers of decibans mean­ingful?

Weak ev­i­dence that eat­ing veg­eta­bles makes you live longer

Meetup : Ra­tion­al­ist House­warm­ing at Isen­gard (Melbourne)

Use­ful Con­cepts Repository

All De­bates Are Brav­ery Debates

An­ti­ci­pat­ing crit­i­cal transitions

Ex­er­cise isn’t nec­es­sar­ily good for people

So­cial Im­pact, Effec­tive Altru­ism, and Mo­ti­vated Cognition

Some clar­ifi­ca­tions con­cern­ing my “many weak ar­gu­ments” post

Weekly LW Meetups

Ro­bust Co­op­er­a­tion in the Pri­soner’s Dilemma

Pri­soner’s Dilemma (with visi­ble source code) Tournament

Model Sta­bil­ity in In­ter­ven­tion Assessment

Failure in the mar­ket­place of ideas

Tiling Agents for Self-Mod­ify­ing AI (OPFAI #2)

Many Weak Ar­gu­ments and the Typ­i­cal Mind

Meetup : [NYC] Self Im­prove­ment—Pro­duc­tivity Apps

CFAR work­shop, June 15th, Salt Lake City UT

Meetup : Se­cond Bris­tol meetup & mailing list for fu­ture meetups

Ideas wanted: democ­racy in an Em world

Ma­hatma Arm­strong: CEVed to death.

[link] The Eco­nomics of So­cial Status

A Vi­able Alter­na­tive to Typing

Meetup : Zendo and discussion

Ap­plied art of ra­tio­nal­ity: Richard Feyn­man steel­man­ning his mother’s concerns

Meetup : Berkeley: Board games

Other pre­spec­tive on re­solv­ing the Pri­soner’s dilemma

Why eco­nomics is not a moral­ity tale

David Brooks from the NY Times writes on earn­ing-to-give

2013 June-Au­gust Life Hacks Thread

Many Weak Ar­gu­ments vs. One Rel­a­tively Strong Argument

Meetup : West LA Meetup—Quan­tify­ing and Mea­sur­ing for Self-Experimentation

The Use of Many In­de­pen­dent Lines of Ev­i­dence: The Basel Problem

Does model the­ory [psy­chol­ogy] pre­dict any­thing? (book: “How We Rea­son” (2009))

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes June 2013

Meetup : Bratis­lava Meetup IV.

Risques ex­is­ten­tiels en Français

How much was cre­at­ing Google worth?

Earn­ing to Give vs. Altru­is­tic Ca­reer Choice Revisited

Re­duc­tion­ism se­quence now available in au­dio format

Open Thread, June 2-15, 2013

Karma as Money

June 2013 Me­dia Thread

Two Weeks of Med­i­ta­tion can Re­duce Mind Wan­der­ing and Im­prove Men­tal Perfor­mance.

A dis­claimer about my effec­tive philan­thropy posts (in con­nec­tion with as­tro­nom­i­cal waste)

Jaan Tal­linn: A Skype founder on biomon­i­tors, ex­is­ten­tial risk and simu­lated realities

A World War I ex­am­ple show­ing the dan­ger of de­ceiv­ing your own side

Will the world’s elites nav­i­gate the cre­ation of AI just fine?