Start the week—On life ex­ten­sion, neuro-ethics, hu­man en­hance­ment and materialism

Or­gan dona­tion vs Cryonics

Learn­ing how to ex­plain things

[Site Redesign Bug] Dis­cus­sion post are du­pli­cated in the main site.

Hu­man Bi­ases (Ab)used by com­merce [link]

Biomed­i­cal en­g­ineers an­a­lyze—and du­pli­cate—the neu­ral mechanism of learn­ing in rats [link]

The RPG Thread

Search­ing for: Pa­tri’s post on aban­don­ing vi­o­lent revolution

Most-Mo­ral-Minor­ity Morality

[Meta] [Solved] Un­sta­ble Karma

Com­pet­i­tive Es­say Writing

The True Re­jec­tion Challenge

ask­ing an AI to make it­self friendly

Meetup : Irv­ine Meetup Wed­nes­day June 29

Fu­tu­rama does an epi­sode on nano-tech­nol­ogy.

New York Meetup

[SEQ RERUN] Belief as Attire

What can we gain from ra­tio­nal­ity?

Mu­sic: Hat­sune Miku 3D Live in Los An­ge­les on the 2nd July 2011

Up­com­ing meet-ups: Ban­ga­lore, Ot­tawa, Ed­in­burgh, North Carolina, Paris, Lo­gan, Irvine

psy­chol­ogy and ap­pli­ca­tions of re­in­force­ment learn­ing: where do I learn more?

Fi­nally just cre­ated com­pre­hen­sive re­source col­lec­tions/​guides for au­to­di­dac­tism/​sev­eral sci­en­tific subjects

Re­view of Doris, ‘The Mo­ral Psy­chol­ogy Hand­book’ (2010)

Pre­view button

The Kol­mogorov com­plex­ity of a su­per­in­tel­li­gence

Health In­fla­tion, Wealth In­fla­tion, and the Dis­count­ing of Hu­man Life

[SEQ RERUN] Pro­fess­ing and Cheering

Meetup : Austin, TX

Dis­cus­sion: Yud­kowsky’s ac­tual ac­com­plish­ments be­sides divulgation

Help me fix a cog­ni­tive bug

The Ide­olog­i­cal Tur­ing Test

Meetup : Fort Col­lins, Colorado Meetup

What LW/​Se­quences ideas to cover in next Ra­tion­al­ity Mat­ters comic?

Are Many Wor­lds and the Mul­ti­verse the Same Idea [LINK]

En­tan­gled with Real­ity: The Prob­a­bil­is­tic In­fer­en­tial Learn­ing Model (Link)

Mu­sic: The 21st Cen­tury Monads

Les­lie Vali­ant dis­cusses the the “prob­a­bly ap­prox­i­mately cor­rect,” or PAC, model of ma­chine learn­ing.

Meetup : Ban­ga­lore Meetup

[SEQ RERUN] Bayesian Judo

En­tan­gled with Real­ity: The Shoelace Example

Ex­clude the su­per­nat­u­ral? My wor­ld­view is up for grabs.

Back­ground ma­te­rial for read­ing Judg­ment Un­der Uncer­tainty?

Re­duc­tion­ism read­ing list

Meetup : West LA Meetup 06-28-2011

Meetup : Weekly Berkeley Meetup

Ques­tion about Large Utilities and Low Probabilities

SIAI’s Short-Term Re­search Program

SMBC: dystopian ob­jec­tive function

Re­cent site changes

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