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There's been a noticeable trend over the last few years of in this community of writing long-form dating profiles. They have the benefit of being slightly costly signals, requiring significantly more time and attention and a much greater degree of disclosure than can be devoted to a traditional online dating...

I recently stumbled upon the Awesome Artificial Intelligence Ethics list, and was somewhat underwhelmed with its quality. While it has enough links to look like a good and useful Awesome List, I think I'd come away from it mostly confused and unsure where to go next. Some obvious oversights include:...

Metaculus has launched a new Prize. In contrast to its earlier contest, which was focused on information to improve forecasts of relevance to Animal Welfare, the Li Wenliang Prize is designed to incentivize such information gathering for and forecasts of COVID-19. Separate prize categories are being awarded for Forecasts, Analysis,...

Metaculus is running a small competition right now called the Bentham Prize. The premise is simple: contribute to the discussions of questions on Animal Welfare. The best record of contributions (subjectively assessed by human judges) will win. If you've been waiting for a reason to start practicing forecasting, this seems...

Science Journalist Julie Rehmeyer suffered from crippling Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. She's plugging a new book discussing her experiences with the not-medically-established treatment. The article in this link post discusses her decision to attempt the treatment, as well as first-order, meta-level suggestions about pursuing this type of independent research for other...

I have created the latest in a long history of independent, disorganized projects to scrape collections of posts from LessWrong into ebooks. A few selected examples of others: * jb55's lesswrong-print * dato's lesswrong-bundle * OneWhoFrog's lw2ebook * srlee309's LessWrongEBookCreator * natewind's lesswrong-fb2 ...Not to mention the official version of...