Size of the small­est re­cur­sively self-im­prov­ing AI?

Soft­ware for Crit­i­cal Think­ing, Prof. Ge­off Cumming

Ad­vice in fight­ing de­pres­sion?

San Fran­cisco Meetup 4/​4 7:00 PM

Men­tal Metadata

Timescales Matter

Ithaca Meetup?

Towards an Al­gorithm for (Hu­man) Self-Modification

Au­dio from Eliezer’s talk at the Oxford Transhumanists

John Baez In­ter­views with Eliezer (Parts 2 and 3)

Lon­don Hack­day, this Fri­day, April 1st (No, this is not a joke)

HP:MoR Au­dio Book Pilot

12-year old challenges the Big Bang

Life hacks from the dark side

Q: Ex­per­i­ment on blam­ing the one you hurt?

Clare­mont Meetup

Creation­ism’s effect on the progress of our un­der­stand­ing of evolution

Philos­o­phy: A Diseased Discipline

How to talk to yourself

Ra­tion­al­ist Movies (Spoilers for the film Limitless)

Free Will as Un­solv­abil­ity by Rivals

Col­lapsi­ble ar­ti­cle sec­tions?

The Neu­ro­science of Pleasure

How Safe are Uploads?

Ra­tional Read­ing: Thoughts On Pri­ori­tiz­ing Books

How much friendli­ness is enough?

Put Your­self in Man­ual Mode (aka Shut Up and Mul­ti­ply)

In­verse Speed

AI that doesn’t want to get out

Faith and theory

The Differ­ence Between Clas­si­cal, Ev­i­den­tial, and Time­less De­ci­sion Theories

Just let­ting al­co­holics drink

The null model of science

I want to learn programming

Toronto Meetup—Thurs­day, March 31st, 8:00 PM

LessWrong search traf­fic doubles

Real-world New­comb-like Prob­lems

Viz­ier AIs

Ver­ify­ing Ra­tion­al­ity via Ra­tion­alPoker.com

Kinect self-aware­ness-hack (why Friendli­ness is cru­cial)

Phoenix Meet Up Group?

Con­stantly ask what you’re cur­rently do­ing that is irrational

The func­tion of be­lief—ad­vice ap­pre­ci­ated.

“Is there a God” for noobs

Crime and punishment

The “su­per­nat­u­ral” category

Why Would A Cer­tain Hoax Story Be Re­ported For So Long?

“If the race starts at X, I’ll win”

death-is-bad-ism go­ing a lit­tle bit more main­stream?

Link: Paul Gra­ham on in­tel­li­gence vs determination