[LINK] Brief Dis­cus­sion of As­teroid & Nu­clear Risk from pa­per by Hellman

LINK: Ben Go­ertzel; Does Hu­man­ity Need an “AI-Nanny”?

Need Help With Decision

[SEQ RERUN] “Science” as Cu­ri­os­ity-Stopper

New­comb and Procrastination

[Link] TED Talk on Per­ceived Value

Test to see if “c” cur­rently works in top level posts

That let­ter af­ter B is not ren­der­ing on Less Wrong?

Leav­ing out the dead

The Goal of the Bayesian Conspiracy

Are Deon­tolog­i­cal Mo­ral Judg­ments Ra­tion­al­iza­tions?

Anki deck for Cog­ni­tive Science in One Lesson

Short & silly su­per­in­tel­li­gence fic: “Ax­iom Chains”

Meetup : Irv­ine Meetup Wed­nes­day Au­gust 17

Hu­mans: Not Carved from Marble

[SEQ RERUN] Ex­plain/​Wor­ship/​Ig­nore?

Cached Phrases

[link] Friendly AI and Utilitarianism

[Link] Scott Aaron­son on Why Philoso­phers Should Care About Com­pu­ta­tional Complexity

Noz­ick’s fluff, or Omega the trick­ster.

The Whistleblower

What are you work­ing on?

Help! All this new found ra­tio­nal­ity and room for im­prove­ment is caus­ing me to burn out

[Link] Study on Group Intelligence

Re­mind Phys­i­cal­ists They’re Physicalists

[SEQ RERUN] Stranger Than History

Judg­ment Un­der Uncer­tainty sum­maries, Part 1: Representativeness

[Link] Nick Bostrom on the Si­mu­la­tion Argument

The Dooms­day Ar­gu­ment and Self-Sam­pling As­sump­tion are wrong, but in­duc­tion is al­ive and well.

Cry­on­ics is Quan­tum Suicide (minus the suicide)

How good an em­u­la­tion is re­quired?

Take heed, for it is a trap

[SEQ RERUN] Mak­ing His­tory Available

Magic Tricks Re­vealed: Test Your Rationality

Does quan­tum me­chan­ics make simu­la­tions neg­ligible?

A Prob­lem with Ab­bre­vi­a­tions and Acronyms

An­throp­ics Does Not Work LIke That

“Meetup” pro­posal: Google+

Over­com­ing bias in others

Mu­nich Meetup, Satur­day Septem­ber 10th, 2PM

Easy money: Find me a new job, get $1000

Where to re­port bugs on the new site?

Meetup : Less Wrong Helsinki meetup

An EPub of Eliezer’s blog posts

Re­cent pop­u­lar books on hu­man ir­ra­tional­ity to recom­mend to your friends

Why epi­demiol­ogy will not cor­rect itself

Strate­gic ig­no­rance and plau­si­ble deniability

Meetup : Hous­ton Hack­erspace Meetup

Meetup : Madison

Fic­tion: Let­ter from the End