Viliam_Bur

Recently, multiple suspicious user accounts were created on Less Wrong. These accounts don't post any content in the forum. Instead, they are used only to send private messages to the existing users. Many users have received a copy of the same message, but different variants exist, too. Here are the...

Accounts "The_Lion" and "The_Lion2" are banned now. Here is some background, mostly for the users who weren't here two years ago: User "Eugine_Nier" was banned for retributive downvoting in July 2014. He keeps returning to the website using new accounts, such as "Azathoth123", "Voiceofra", "The_Lion", and he keeps repeating the...

During the following months my time and attention will be heavily occupied by some personal stuff, so I will be unable to function as a LW moderator. The new LW moderator is... NancyLebovitz! From today, please direct all your complaints and investigation requests to Nancy. Please not everyone during the...

Discussion article for the meetup : Bratislava WHEN: 22 December 2014 06:00:00PM (+0100) WHERE: Laurinská 1, Bratislava Same place as previously: foxford. Discussion article for the meetup : Bratislava

Discussion article for the meetup : Bratislava WHEN: 01 December 2014 06:00:00PM (+0100) WHERE: Laurinská 1, Bratislava Careful! Now at different place than usual. Discussion article for the meetup : Bratislava

Discussion article for the meetup : Bratislava WHEN: 10 November 2014 06:00:00PM (+0100) WHERE: Bistro The Peach, Mariánska 3, Bratislava Bistro the Peach asi stále nie je poriadne označené, ale je to oproti predajni richmanov na Mariánskej. Alebo sa riaďte podľa google mapy a čísla ulice. Vchod vyzerá tak, že...

What are we doing to make this world a better (epistemically or instrumentally) place? Some answers to this question are already written in Bragging Threads and other places, but I think they deserve a special emphasis. I think that many smart people are focused on improving themselves, which is a...