Why the tails come apart

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Au­gust 1-15

Au­gust 2014 Me­dia Thread

Pre­dic­tion of the Internet

New LW Meetup: Perth

Sav­ing the World—Progress Report

Meetup : Lon­don—In­dex Funds and Other Fun Stuff

Con­nec­tion The­ory Has Less Than No Evidence

[link] Why Psy­chol­o­gists’ Food Fight Matters

Meetup : Can­berra: Effec­tive Altruism

Alter­na­tive to Cam­paign Fi­nance Re­form?

An­nounc­ing the 2014 pro­gram equil­ibrium iter­ated PD tournament

Meetup : West LA—Be­hold Moloch! Be­ware of Moloch!

Causal In­fer­ence Se­quence Part 1: Ba­sic Ter­minol­ogy and the As­sump­tions of Causal Inference

Se­quence An­nounce­ment: Ap­plied Causal Inference

Con­ti­nu­ity ax­iom of vNM

How to treat prob­lems of un­known difficulty

Gam­ing Democracy

Meetup : Perth, Aus­tralia: In­tro­duc­ing Less Wrong

Ten­ta­tive tips for peo­ple en­gaged in an ex­er­cise that in­volves some form of pre­dic­tion or forecasting

Med­i­ta­tions On Moloch

Fac­ing the In­tel­li­gence Explosion

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC: En­core (or Goal Fac­tor­ing)

Open thread, July 28 - Au­gust 3, 2014

Ex­pected util­ity, un­los­ing agents, and Pas­cal’s mugging

“All nat­u­ral food” as an con­strained op­ti­mi­sa­tion problem

Meetup : Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—Aversions

Re­minders with­out times

“And that’s okay”: ac­cept­ing and own­ing reality

De­ci­sion The­ory: Value in Time

Meetup : Salt Lake, UT: Light­ning Talks

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, July 2014, chap­ter 102

Value ethics vs. agency ethics

Meetup : Au­gust Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo: Govern­ing the Commons

An even more mod­est search en­g­ine proposal

Ethics in a Feed­back Loop: A Parable

Weekly LW Meetups

Meetup : Perth, Australia

Claim: Sce­nario plan­ning is prefer­able to quan­ti­ta­tive fore­cast­ing for un­der­stand­ing and cop­ing with AI progress

[QUESTION]: Look­ing for in­sights from ma­chine learn­ing that helped im­prove state-of-the-art hu­man thinking

In­tu­itive cooperation

Should al­tru­ists pay for prof­itable things?

Knigh­tian un­cer­tainty in a Bayesian framework

Three ques­tions about source code uncertainty

Meetup : War­saw Meetup proposal

Alpha Mail

Meetup : At­lanta Meetup: Self Deception

Jokes Thread

Fifty Shades of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Meetup : Less Wrong Is­rael Meetup (Tel Aviv): Fu­tur­ism and The Future