Con­sult­ing Op­por­tu­nity for Bud­ding Econometricians

Public ser­vice an­nounce­ment—Bay Area tsunami warn­ing!

Some Reflec­tions on Branch­ing vs Probability

A Thought Ex­per­i­ment on Pain as a Mo­ral Disvalue

AGI and Friendly AI in the dom­i­nant AI textbook

Off-topic Thread

Columbia Univer­sity Meetup

Non-per­sonal prefer­ences of never-ex­isted people

Plant Seeds of Rationality

The Limits of Curiosity

Magic Ar­ti­cles I’ve Written

[Video] AI Box Ex­per­i­ment on BBC’s “Look Around You”

Agree­ment on anthropics

[Link] Your genes, your rights – FDA’s Jeffrey Shuren not a fan

Col­lege Selec­tion Advice

Bet­ter late than never: Toronto meetup March 10

How SIAI could pub­lish in main­stream cog­ni­tive sci­ence journals

Eliezer passes 100,000 karma points

Ben Go­ertzel on Charity

[Link] The New Humanism

John Baez on Charity

Lokhorst, ‘Com­pu­ta­tional Meta-ethics’ (2011)

Less Wrong at Burn­ing Man 2011

Why not just write failsafe rules into the su­per­in­tel­li­gent ma­chine?

How best to show dy­ing is bad

How to im­prove the pub­lic per­cep­tion of the SIAI and LW?

[link] Why an In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sion is Probable

Open Thread, March 2011

Chicago Meetup—Sun­day March 13

TopicTi­tle’); DROP TABLE Users EXCEPT (Ade­leneDawner OR Kevin); --

[Link] John Baez in­ter­views Eliezer

Bring Back the Se­quences?

Berkeley LW Meet-Up Satur­day March 12

Lifeism, Anti-Death­ism, and Some Other Ter­mi­nal-Values Rambling

ABC Ra­dio Na­tional epi­sode on the Singularity

Pos­i­tive Thinking

LW is to ra­tio­nal­ity as AIXI is to intelligence

Katla on death as entertainment

Ar­mies of Ex­pen­sive Lawyers, Re­placed by Cheaper Soft­ware [link]

NASA sci­en­tist finds ev­i­dence of alien life [link]

Per­haps the first de­tailed plan to pro­gram a gen­eral moral code into a par­tic­u­lar model of AGI

Blues, Greens and abortion

A Tran­shu­man­ist Poem

Us­ing the Karma sys­tem to call for a show of hands—prof­itable?

A Brief Overview of Ma­chine Ethics

Case study: Con­sole Insurance

Well-done doc­u­men­tary on the sin­gu­lar­ity: ‘Tran­scen­dent Man’

The Im­por­tance of Math­e­mat­ics (Gow­ers)

[LINK] Dis­cov­ery shut­tle launch viewed from an airliner

The Trou­ble with Bright Girls [link]