Melbourne Meetup: Fri­day 1st July 7pm

Con­sid­er­ing all sce­nar­ios when us­ing Bayes’ the­o­rem.

ex­is­ten­tial-risk.org by Nick Bostrom

The proper use of re­gret?

Foma: Beliefs that Cause Them­selves to be True

DC Meetup: Sun­day June 26th, 1:00 PM

[SEQ RERUN] Mak­ing Beliefs Pay Rent (in An­ti­ci­pated Ex­pe­riences)

Utility Max­i­miza­tion and Com­plex Values

Much-Bet­ter-Life Si­mu­la­tor™ - Sales Conversation

What are the best news sources to read for *in­sight­ful* dis­cus­sions?

[LINK] Pro­duc­ing Open Source Software

[SEQ RERUN] Two More Things to Un­learn from School

Why No Wire­head­ing?

How to in­flict huge costs kindly

Help Re­quest: Cry­on­ics Policies

[prize] new con­test for Spaced Rep­e­ti­tion liter­a­ture re­view ($365+)

To­day 4PM: Last minute Hous­ton meetup

“The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good”, 80/​20 Rule, INTPish, and Rationality

Ray Kurzweil on Bill Maher

Ot­tawa LW meetup, June 23, 7pm; two Bayesian Con­spir­acy sessions

A math question

Ar­tifi­cial mem­ory hard­ware might be on the way [link]

Look­ing for a comic that was posted here

Ama­teur Cry­on­ics (one guy packed in dry ice) Fes­ti­val Seeks Buyer

When is fur­ther re­search needed?

[SEQ RERUN] Are Your Ene­mies In­nately Evil?

Drive-less AIs and experimentation

Ed­in­burgh LW meetup re­minder, Satur­day, 2pm

Q&A with Shane Legg on risks from AI

Dis­cus­sion: So­cially Awk­ward Pen­guin as a tool for un­rav­el­ing so­cial enigmas

Quan­tum Physics, CERN and Hawk­ing radiation

N-back news: Jaeggi 2011, or, is there a psy­chol­o­gist/​statis­ti­cian in the house?

Friendly to the Ex­treme: Kids and Adults With Willi­ams Syn­drome (Link)

Try­ing to bet­ter un­der­stand futarchy

1-2pm is for ???

Effi­cient philan­thropy: lo­cal vs. global ap­proaches

How ex­actly do you deal with ir­ra­tional re­ac­tions to in­sects and spi­ders?

[SEQ RERUN] Cor­re­spon­dence Bias

Out of the closet as a Pos­i­tive Utilitarian

Q&A with Jür­gen Sch­mid­hu­ber on risks from AI

In­duc­tion, De­duc­tion, and the Col­latz Con­jec­ture: the De­cid­edly Un­de­cid­able Propo­si­tions.

Re­search Tri­an­gle, NC, Meetup—Satur­day, June 18th, 2 p.m.

Trial and er­ror in policy making

The Pho­bia or the Trauma: The Probem of the Chcken or the Egg in Mo­ral Rea­son­ing.

The ar­gu­men­ta­tive the­ory of reasoning

Dis­solv­ing the Ques­tion of Life

New York Times on Ar­gu­ments and Evolu­tion [link]

In­fluence = Manipulation

[SEQ RERUN] Risk-Free Bonds Aren’t

Sus­pended an­i­ma­tion/​hi­ber­na­tion: would you use it if it were available?