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Hi, Welcome to the first Non-Karmic-Casual-Discussion-Thread. This is a place for [purpose of thread goes here]. In order to create a ca

I have never been on a Lesswrong meetup because they tend to take place too far away from my range in terms of distance and budget. Because

The Music Genome Project is what powers Pandora. According to Wikipedia:   The Music Genome Project was first conceived by Will Glaser

The following protocol is very dumb, and relies on a lot of mental brute force, but I find that it works very well indeed. First, learn th

I've just been thinking (a dangerous pastime, I know) and remembering my religious days, and one of the things that made me so anxious back

It appears that Scientific American have found out about raising the sanity waterline. Plus one successful prediction by Mr. Yudkowsky, I pr

In this post, I'll try to tackle the question of whether this community and its members should focus more efforts and resources on improving

Years ago, I stumbled upon this most interesting segment while reading Aldous Huxley's Brave New World Revisited, of which I have finally fo

I have found this most wonderful (if fairly lengthy) article, and thought you would enjoy having it brought to your attention.   It is s

It was Yudkowsky's Fun Theory sequence that inspired me to undertake the work of writing a novel on a singularitarian society... however, th