I've been wondering what effect joining lesswrong and reading the sequences has on people. How has lesswrong changed your life? What have you done differently? What have you done?
Various people (including Konkvistador who has been talking about it the most) have launched their blog More Right "A group blog, More Right is a place to discuss the many things that are touched by politics that we prefer wouldn’t be, as well as right wing ideas in general. It...
> Nobel laureate challenges psychologists to clean up their act > > Nobel prize-winner Daniel Kahneman has issued a strongly worded call to one group of psychologists to restore the credibility of their field by creating a replication ring to check each others’ results. > > Kahneman, a psychologist at...
I want to become Stronger! Udacity are running an Introduction to Statistics course starting on the 25th June 2012. Many of us could stand to learn some more stats, I certainly could. This seems like a great opportunity! It is mandatory for all LWers to enroll in this course. Update:...
http://www.etla.org/hpmor_notes.html This is an ongoing project of mine, although I haven't worked on it in a while. I've been trying to extract the references to Rationality - the Methods of Rationality from HPMoR. It also ended up having a few quotes that seemed interesting about how the story's going. I've...
Autistic woman banned from having sex in latest Court of Protection case This reminded me of previous LW comments about how we restrict the rights of children for their own good. On the one hand, children can't understand the risks so we stop them having sex. But on the other...