Link: Chess­box­ing could help train au­to­matic emo­tion regulation

Could/​would an FAI recre­ate peo­ple who are in­for­ma­tion-the­o­ret­i­cally dead by mod­ern stan­dards?

The Illu­sion of Sameness

Hugo Awards—HP:MoR

Poli­tics is a fact of life

Do Cor­po­ra­tions Have a Right to Pri­vacy?

Match­ing game

Scien­tific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge

Who are these spam­mers?

Eliezer is dead (not re­ally)

Meta: A 5 karma re­quire­ment to post in discussion

I Want to Learn About Education

Net­works, Crowds, and Mar­kets textbook

Steve Jobs’ med­i­cal leave, riches and longevity

Theists are wrong; is the­ism?

My novel opinions

Should we have sec­u­lar churches?

Star­craft AI Competition

“Manna” by Mar­shall Brain

Er­ro­neous Visualizations

Med­i­ta­tions on first philosophy

Some Mo­rals from the Study of Hu­man Ir­ra­tional­ity [Link]

Jan­uary 2011 South­ern Cal­ifor­nia Meetup

Statis­ti­cal Pre­dic­tion Rules Out-Perform Ex­pert Hu­man Judgments

Eliezer to speak in Oxford, 8pm Jan 25th

Link: “Top 10 Mis­takes in Be­hav­ior Change”

Your best ar­gu­ments for risks from AI

Meta: Ba­sic and ad­vanced section

The an­noy­ing­ness of New Athe­ists: declar­ing God Dead makes you a Com­plete Mon­ster?

Meta: Ra­tion­al­ity News Area

Slate ar­ti­cle on Effi­cient Char­ity (link)

The Best Text­books on Every Subject

Try­ing to hide bad sig­nal­ing? To the Dark Side, lead you it will.

UFAI Web Comic

Link: Edge: THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2011: “What Scien­tific Con­cept Would Im­prove Every­body’s Cog­ni­tive Toolkit? (edge.org)

Which are the use­ful ar­eas of AI study?

Why is con­sis­tency of­ten con­sid­ered to be an in­tel­lec­tual virtue?

Peo­ple Ne­glect Who They Really Are When Pre­dict­ing Their Own Fu­ture Hap­piness [link]

SMBC self-fulfilling prophecy

Image: Another un­in­formed per­spec­tive on risks from AI (hu­mor)

“Bad-for-the-world-ipe­dia?”

Peer re­view me

Note on Ter­minol­ogy: “Ra­tion­al­ity”, not “Ra­tion­al­ism”

Ra­tional Repentance

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 7

Link—to­tal body transplant

Treat­ment Tips for Used up Cos­tume out­fit Jewelry

I want to learn economics

Link: The Uncer­tain Fu­ture—“The Fu­ture Ac­cord­ing to You”

Fields re­lated to Friendli­ness philosophy