Nat­u­ral Rights as Im­ped­i­ment to Ar­tifi­cial Intelligence

Book Re­view: Kazdin’s The Every­day Par­ent­ing Toolkit

The con­cept of be­lief and the na­ture of abstraction

Meetup : Less­wrong Boulder CO—Time­less De­ci­sion Theory

Find a study part­ner—April 2014 thread

What has .im­pact done so far?

Ex­pla­na­tions for Less Wrong ar­ti­cles that you didn’t understand

Meetup : Can­berra Meetup: Life hacks part 1

Meetup : Syd­ney Meetup—April

Meetup : Syd­ney So­cial Meetup—April (Bridge walk)

Wheat: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

The Ten Com­mand­ments of Rationality

Meetup : Tempe, AZ (ASU)

How valuable is vol­un­teer­ing?

In­creas­ing the pool of peo­ple with out­stand­ing accomplishments

In­tel­li­gence Am­plifi­ca­tion Interview

In­tro­duc­ing Skil­lshare.im

Effec­tive Effec­tive Altru­ism Fundrais­ing and Move­ment-Building

Log­i­cal ther­mo­dy­nam­ics: to­wards a the­ory of self-trust­ing un­cer­tain reasoning

Meetup : Philadelphia, PA: Goal Fac­tor­ing Exercise

Meetup Philadelphia: March 30, Ben Lan­dau-Tay­lor on Goal Factoring

What col­leges look for in ex­tracur­ricu­lar activities

Does re­li­gion help cure in­san­ity?

Meetup : Bos­ton—Schel­ling Day

Es­ti­mate Effect Sizes

[link] Cy­bathlon (an Olympics for bionic ath­letes)

Gun­shot vic­tims to be sus­pended be­tween life and death [link]

A small ra­tio­nal­ist win, and a ques­tion about promulgation

Two ar­gu­ments for not think­ing about ethics (too much)

Distri­bu­tion of knowl­edge and stan­dard­iza­tion in science

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cam­paign: Dis­cus­sion (Folk Wis­dom)

Meetup : Utrecht: More on effec­tive altruism

Out­line Sum­mary: The Pro­cras­ti­na­tion Equation

Meetup : Is­rael Less Wrong Meetup—So­cial and Board Games

The Prob­lem of “Win-More”

Meetup : Las Ve­gas/​Hen­der­son, NV

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC: Robin Han­son vis­its to talk about giving

Ra­tion­al­ist fic­tion: a Slice of Life IN HELL

[Link] Zack Wein­er­smith’s One-Liner Generator

Other minds and bats: the vam­pire Tur­ing test

Open thread, 24-30 March 2014

How to trade money and time

What le­gal ways do peo­ple make a profit that pro­duce the largest net loss in util­ity?

What is the most anti-al­tru­is­tic way to spend a mil­lion dol­lars?

Meetup : Helsinki Meetup

Meetup : LessWrong Ham­burg − 4

How can Cog­nito Men­tor­ing do the most good?

What are some sci­ence mis­takes you made in col­lege?

Meetup : Prince­ton NJ Meetup

Agents with Carte­sian child­hood and Phys­i­cal­ist adulthood