Eval­u­at­ing GiveWell as a startup idea based on Paul Gra­ham’s philosophy

How rele­vant are the les­sons from Megamis­takes to fore­cast­ing to­day?

Quote dump for “megamis­takes”

Meetup : Christchurch, NZ Inau­gu­ral Meetup

Bot­world: a cel­lu­lar au­toma­ton for study­ing self-mod­ify­ing agents em­bed­ded in their environment

Sup­ply, de­mand, and tech­nolog­i­cal progress: how might the fu­ture un­fold? Should we be­lieve in run­away ex­po­nen­tial growth?

Weekly LW Meetups

Meetup: Philadelphia, April 12, 1PM

Meetup : Phoenix/​ASU Less Wrong

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign Scan­tily At­tended Mee­tups Rerun

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC Games meetup

Meetup : LW Ot­tawa meetup

Bleg: Read and learn, or be­come an ac­tivist?

The value of the on­line hive mind

Meetup : So­cial­is­ing in the Sun, Lon­don 13/​04

How much does where you go to col­lege af­fect earn­ings?

Schel­ling Day 2.0

Recom­men­da­tions for donat­ing to an anti-death cause

The failed simu­la­tion effect and its im­pli­ca­tions for the op­ti­miza­tion of ex­tracur­ricu­lar activities

Google vs Wikipe­dia, for-profit vs not-for-profit

Open Thread April 8 - April 14 2014

Be com­fortable with hypocrisy

Solomonoff in­duc­tion on a ran­dom string

HPMOR hy­poth­e­sis: Harry will use Time­less De­ci­sion The­ory to re­solve some of the time-turner paradoxes

A sum­mary and broad points of agree­ment and dis­agree­ment with Cal New­port’s book on high school extracurriculars

Con­tro­versy—Healthy or Harm­ful?

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes April 2014

Pol­ling Thread

Meetup : Utrecht: Be­havi­oural eco­nomics, game the­ory...

The Case For Free Will or Why LessWrong must com­mit to self determination

Siren wor­lds and the per­ils of over-op­ti­mised search

AI risk, ex­ec­u­tive summary

SHRDLU, un­der­stand­ing, an­thro­po­mor­phi­sa­tion and hind­sight bias

LW Aus­tralia Week­end Retreat

Meetup : Stan­ford Salon and LW inau­gu­ral meetup

Meetup : The Se­cond War­saw Meetup

Stock phrases

Ob­ser­va­tional learn­ing and the im­por­tance of high qual­ity examples

The so­cial value of high school ex­tracur­ricu­lar time

Meetup : Next Meetup: Fermi Es­ti­mates and Singing

The Cold War di­vided Science

A puz­zle con­cern­ing CS ma­jor vs. en­g­ineer­ing ma­jor salaries

Com­mu­nity overview and re­sources for mod­ern Less Wrong meetup organisers

New LW Mee­tups: Las Ve­gas, Warsaw

LINK-Bayesian meth­ods in drug de­vel­op­ment and reg­u­la­tory review

Meetup : Bratis­lava Meetup XII.

Meetup : Bratis­lava Meetup XI.

Meetup : Chicago: See­ing with Fresh Eyes Review

Meetup : Moscow Meet up

Ca­reer prospects for physics majors