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I've always appreciated the motto, "Raising the sanity waterline." Intentionally raising the ambient level of rationality in our civilizatio

I've recently been extracting extraordinary value from the Jocko Podcast. Jocko Willink is a retired Navy SEAL commander, jiu-jitsu black

Demis Hassabis gives a great presentation on the state of Deepmind's work as of April 20, 2016. Skip to 23:12 for the statement of the goal

(Disclaimer: The following perspectives are based in my experience with policy debate which is fifteen years out of date. The meta-level poi

Following on JoshuaFox's thread polling for interest in business networking between Less Wrong community members, a Less Wrong Networking Go

We recently established a successful Useful Concepts Repository.  It got me thinking about all the useless or actively harmful concepts I ha

LessWrong is wonderful.  Life-changing.  Best thing that ever happened to me. But it's not really enough to make one a rationalist, is it?