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]

Why are promisers in­no­cent?

Ra­tion­al­ity Ac­tivism: Open Thread

What are you work­ing on?

Shika­maru vs. the Log­i­cal Fallacies

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Syd­ney Less Wrong Meetup (can­cel­led due to lack of in­ter­est)

Go Try Things

Test­ing Intelligence

Are You a Par­a­lyzed Subor­di­nate Mon­key?

What Else Would I Do To Make a Liv­ing?

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes: March 2011

Hong Kong LW meetup

[LINK] John Baez In­ter­view with as­tro­physi­cist Gre­gory Ben­ford

Re­vis­it­ing Psy-Kosh’s Non-An­thropic De­ci­sion Problem

Eliezer Yud­kowsky and Michael Vas­sar at NYU, Thurs­day March 3rd

Are In­ter­est­ing Prob­lems Use­ful?

Ex­per­i­men­tal ev­i­dence of the value of re­dun­dant oral tradition

Cryptography

I am anti-aware­ness and you should be too

Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute now ac­cepts dona­tions via Bitcoin

Wikipe­dia: Mo­ravec’s Paradox

Mis­takes and Rationality

Bal­ti­more?