Best of Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes, 2014 Edition

In mem­ory of Leonard Ni­moy, most fa­mous for play­ing the (straw) ra­tio­nal­ist Spock, what are your top 3 ST:TOS epi­sodes with him?

Meetup : Frank­furt Pub Social

[Link] Al­gorithm aversion

Weekly LW Meetups

What sub­jects are im­por­tant to ra­tio­nal­ity, but not cov­ered in Less Wrong?

Meetup : West LA: The Sub­sti­tu­tion Principle

Meetup : Seat­tle Se­quences group: Mys­te­ri­ous An­swers 3

Meetup : Moscow meetup: phe­nomenolog­i­cal anal­y­sis, meth­ods of cre­ativity, light­ning talks

If you can see the box, you can open the box

“Hu­man-level con­trol through deep re­in­force­ment learn­ing”—com­puter learns 49 differ­ent games

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: What If Scenarios

Are Cog­ni­tive Bi­ases De­sign Flaws?

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, Fe­bru­ary 2015, chap­ter 112

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, Fe­bru­ary 2015, chap­ter 111

Jour­nal ‘Ba­sic and Ap­plied Psy­chol­ogy’ bans p<0.05 and 95% con­fi­dence intervals

Does hormetism work? Op­po­nent pro­cess the­ory.

Meetup : Umbc meetup

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, Fe­bru­ary 2015, chap­ter 110

Meetup : Is­rael: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity Pi Day Wrap Party

Sav­ing for the long term

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 24: Mo­ral­ity mod­els and “do what I mean”

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, Fe­bru­ary 2015, chap­ter 109

A quick heuris­tic for eval­u­at­ing elites (or any­one else)

GCRI: Up­dated Strat­egy and AMA on EA Fo­rum next Tuesday

An­nounc­ing LessWrong Digest

Open thread, Feb. 23 - Mar. 1, 2015

Are Cog­ni­tive Load and Willpower drawn from the same pool?

How to de­bate when au­thor­ity is ques­tioned, but re­ally not needed?

Meetup : Prague—set­ting up

Re­quest: Se­quences book read­ing group

Can we de­crease the risk of worse-than-death out­comes fol­low­ing brain preser­va­tion?

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Ver­ified Debating

Ra­tion­al­ity pro­moted by the Amer­i­can Hu­man­ist Association

Meetup : Sin­ga­pore Meetup Group

The Role of Physics in UDT: Part I

Weekly LW Meetups

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, Fe­bru­ary 2015, chap­ter 108

My mind must be too highly trained

Re­port—Allo­cat­ing risk miti­ga­tion across time

Meetup : Dal­las, TX

Money thresh­old Trig­ger Ac­tion Patterns

Easy wins aren’t news

[LINK] The Wrong Ob­jec­tions to the Many-Wor­lds In­ter­pre­ta­tion of Quan­tum Mechanics

Virtue, group and in­di­vi­d­ual prestige

The out­line of Maletopia

Vote for MIRI to be donated a share of red­dit’s ad­ver­tis­ing revenue

Czech’s first Meetup in Prague report

[Link] YC Pres­i­dent Sam Alt­man: The Soft­ware Revolution

Side­kick Matchmaking