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Rationalists like to live in group houses.  We are also as a subculture moving more and more into a child-having phase of our lives.  These

I think people who are not made happier by having things either have the wrong things, or have them incorrectly.  Here is how I get the most

Prerequisite reading which you will probably want open in another tab for reference: 31 Laws of Fun Unprefaced, this post might sound a lo

I have decided that it would be valuable for me to read books (blog posts, articles, random conversations between smart people who store cha

Babies named Ava caused the housing bubble, and other intriguing data. More illustrative than the usual "correlation is not causation" man

I've been collecting data about my headaches and diet for almost four months now.  I don't see any patterns - annoyingly, I get headaches ne

This is a post about applied luminosity in action: how I hacked myself to become polyamorous over (admittedly weak) natural monogamous incli

LW appears to have acquired a new favicon, "<X" in place of the prior "Lw".  This change wasn't announced and I don't know what the new icon

Rory Sutherland, an ad man (who missed his calling as a comedian), gives this talk on perceived value versus "real" value, and comes down in

If you have a lot of people to question about something, and they have a motivation to lie, consider this clever use of a six-sided die.