How I Be­came More Ambitious

A New In­ter­pre­ta­tion of the Marsh­mal­low Test

Sys­tem Ad­minis­tra­tor Ap­pre­ci­a­tion Day—Thanks Trike!

Model Com­bi­na­tion and Adjustment

The Robots, AI, and Unem­ploy­ment Anti-FAQ

To re­duce as­tro­nom­i­cal waste: take your time, then go very fast

Four Fo­cus Areas of Effec­tive Altruism

Why Eat Less Meat?

Re­pos­i­tory repository

“Stupid” ques­tions thread

Low-hang­ing fruit: im­prov­ing wikipe­dia entries

In­fer­en­tial credit history

Gains from trade: Slug ver­sus Galaxy—how much would I give up to con­trol you?

Pri­soner’s dilemma tour­na­ment results

In­stru­men­tal ra­tio­nal­ity/​self help re­sources

Seed Study: Polypha­sic Sleep in Ten Steps

Mak­ing Ra­tion­al­ity Gen­eral-Interest

Less Wrong Lon­don New Ar­rival In­te­gra­tion Task Force

Writ­ing Style and the Typ­i­cal Mind Fallacy

Why I’m Skep­ti­cal About Un­proven Causes (And You Should Be Too)

Use­ful Ques­tions Repository

Against easy su­per­in­tel­li­gence: the un­fore­seen fric­tion argument

Valuable eco­nomics knowl­edge available, iron­i­cally, for free

MIRI’s 2013 Sum­mer Match­ing Challenge

For Hap­piness, Keep a Grat­i­tude Journal

Three Ap­proaches to “Friendli­ness”

Notes/​blog posts on two re­cent MIRI papers

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes from peo­ple as­so­ci­ated with LessWrong

Some high­lights from Nate Silver’s “The Sig­nal and the Noise”

Ev­i­den­tial De­ci­sion The­ory, Selec­tion Bias, and Refer­ence Classes

Akra­sia Tac­tics Re­view 2: The Akra­sia Strikes Back

Ar­gu­ments Against Speciesism

Wel­come to Less Wrong! (6th thread, July 2013)

Caught in the glare of two an­thropic shadows

[META] Open threads (and repos­i­tory threads) are un­der­uti­lized.

Su­per­ra­tional­ity and net­work flow control

“Can we know what to do about AI?”: An Introduction

Com­par­a­tive and ab­solute ad­van­tage in AI

Nor­bert Wiener’s pa­per “Some Mo­ral and Tech­ni­cal Con­se­quences of Au­toma­tion”

Progress on au­to­mated math­e­mat­i­cal the­o­rem prov­ing?

Notes on “The Limits to Growth” and sur­round­ing material

The failure of counter-ar­gu­ments argument

See Eliezer talk with PZ My­ers and David Brin (and me) about im­mor­tal­ity this Sunday

Es­ti­mat­ing the kol­mogorov com­plex­ity of the known laws of physics?

In­tro­duc­ing Fa­mil­iar, a quan­tified rea­son­ing as­sis­tant (feed­back sought!)

Deal­ing with Ad­minis­tra­tive Stress

Open thread, July 16-22, 2013

Op­ti­mize Your Settings

[LINK] Anal­y­sis of why ex­clud­ing hos­tile peo­ple is worth it

The Empty White Room: Sur­real Utilities