Weekly LW Mee­tups: Water­loo, At­lanta, Melbourne, Austin, Lon­don, Seattle

[POLL] Year survey

Meetup : Austin, TX

Brain-Brain communication

Would AIXI pro­tect it­self?

[Link] Tim Crane on An­i­mal Minds

[link] NASA Te­lescope Con­firms Alien Planet in Hab­it­able Zone

[SEQ RERUN] Cul­tish Countercultishness

[Ger­man] Wo wohnt ihr?

Meetup : Is there any­body from In­di­anapo­lis here?

Value evolution

Meetup : Pitts­burgh Holi­day Meetup

Cry­on­ics is Far, Cord-blood is Near

AIXI and Ex­is­ten­tial Despair

A Film about Tran­sHu­man Enterprises

What in­de­pen­dence be­tween ZFC and P vs NP would imply

In the Pareto world, liars prosper

Meetup : First Brus­sels meetup

[SEQ RERUN] To Lead, You Must Stand Up

Teach­ing a short class on Bayes’ The­o­rem?

[Link] A Short Film based on Eliezer Yud­kowsky’s AI Box experiment

Map­ping Fun The­ory onto the challenges of eth­i­cal foie gras

CEV-in­spired models

[SEQ RERUN] Lonely Dissent

Beyond the Reach of God, Abridged for Spo­ken Word

[Link] Us­ing the con­junc­tion fal­lacy to re­veal im­plicit associations

[Link] How to Dispel Your Illu­sions

[Link] How doc­tors die

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[SEQ RERUN] On Ex­press­ing Your Concerns

Utili­tar­i­anism- WBE (up­load­ing) > FAI

[SEQ RERUN] Asch’s Con­for­mity Experiment

Seek­ing Col­lab­o­ra­tor for a Sin­gu­lar­ity Comic Book

2011 Sur­vey Results

How is your mind differ­ent from ev­ery­one else’s?

Richard Car­rier on the Singularity

Draw­ing Less Wrong: Tech­ni­cal Skill

[LINK] How a Com­puter Game is Rein­vent­ing the Science of Ex­per­tise

On “Friendly” Immortality

Read­ing Math: Pearl, Causal Bayes Nets, and Func­tional Causal Models

Larry King: I want to be frozen

K-com­plex­ity of ev­ery­day things

Fun­nel plots: the study that didn’t bark, or, vi­su­al­iz­ing re­gres­sion to the null

“Vuln­er­a­ble Cy­borgs: Learn­ing to Live with our Dragons”, Mark Coeckelbergh

Russ Roberts and Gary Taubes on con­fir­ma­tion bias [pod­cast]

[SEQ RERUN] The Amaz­ing Vir­gin Pregnancy

Why study the cog­ni­tive sci­ence of con­cepts?

In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sion anal­y­sis draft #2: snip­pet 1

[LINK] Fermi Para­dox pa­per touch­ing on FAI

[Link] How Should Ra­tion­al­ists Ap­proach Death? (Skep­ti­con 4)