The Backup Plan

Why the sin­gu­lar­ity is hard and won’t be hap­pen­ing on schedule

Study­ing busi­ness. Ra­tional or­ga­ni­za­tions.

Meetup : Ed­in­burgh LW Meetup

[Link] Awe­some in­ter­ac­tive vi­su­al­iza­tion article

AI on­tol­ogy crises: an in­for­mal typology

Meetup : Melbourne so­cial meetup

[SEQ RERUN] Fake Justification

[LINK] Why did Steve Jobs choose not to effec­tively treat his can­cer?

Meetup : UMD Cal­ibra­tion Games

[SEQ RERUN] A Case Study of Mo­ti­vated Continuation

Im­prov­ing My Writ­ing Style

The self-un­fool­ing problem

[SEQ RERUN] Tor­ture vs. Dust Specks

The self-fool­ing prob­lem.

Just a re­minder, for ev­ery­one that signed up for the in­tro to AI class, it’s started.

In­ter­est­ing ar­ti­cle about optimism

A Ra­tional Ap­proach to Fashion

LW Oc­to­ber WebDiplomacy

Meetup : Austin, TX

[SEQ RERUN] Mo­ti­vated Stop­ping and Mo­ti­vated Continuation

[link] Rel­a­tive an­gels and ab­solute demons

Meetup : Talk on Sin­gu­lar­ity sce­nar­ios and op­ti­mal philan­thropy, fol­lowed by in­for­mal meet-up

Think­ing in Bayes: Light

Anti-akra­sia tool: like stickK.com for data nerds

Cal­ibrate your self-assessments

Mo­ti­vated skep­ti­cism: it’s harder to avoid than I’d think

First, they must be con­vinced to play the game

A few analo­gies to illus­trate key ra­tio­nal­ity points

[SEQ RERUN] Why Are In­di­vi­d­ual IQ Differ­ences OK?

What to do af­ter col­lege?

The Out­side View Of Hu­man Complexity

1001 Pre­dic­tionBook Nights

Mike Dar­win on Kurzweil, Techno-Op­ti­mism, and Delu­sional Stances on Cryonics

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Bal­ti­more, Hous­ton, Chicago, Melbourne, and Penn State

Guardian ar­ti­cle high­lights ob­ser­va­tional bi­ases in Knox investigators

Mike Dar­win on Steve Jobs’s hyp­o­crit­i­cal stance to­wards death

Link: WJS ar­ti­cle that uses Steve Jobs’ death to mock cry­on­ics and the Singularity

[SEQ RERUN] No One Knows What Science Doesn’t Know

Ap­ply­ing Bayesian Anal­y­sis to His­tory (post idea)

Mo­ral­ity is not about willpower

Karma and good discussions

Neu­ral Cor­re­lates of Con­scious Access

Key­log­ger virus strikes Amer­i­can UAV con­trol center

Meetup : Dublin, IE, Meetup

Re­pres­sion in the age of hu­man enhancement

Marsh et al. “Sero­tonin Trans­porter Geno­type (5-HTTLPR) Pre­dicts Utili­tar­ian Mo­ral Judg­ments”

[SEQ RERUN] Dou­ble Illu­sion of Transparency

Should I play World of War­craft?

Mul­ti­ply­ing 10-digit num­bers us­ing Flickr: The power of recog­ni­tion memory