How Likely Is Cry­on­ics To Work?

Guardian An­gels: Discrete Ex­trap­o­lated Volitions

A boltz­mann brain ques­tion.

Con­vinc­ing my dad to sign up for Al­cor: Ad­vice?

Ideas for heuris­tics and bi­ases re­search topic?

What if we make bet­ter de­ci­sions when we trust our gut in­stincts? [Link]

Meetup : Fort Col­lins, Colorado Meetup Wed­nes­day Sept 28 7pm

SIAI vs. FHI achieve­ments, 2008-2010

Cog­ni­tive Neu­ro­science, Ar­row’s Im­pos­si­bil­ity The­o­rem, and Co­her­ent Ex­trap­o­lated Volition

Trou­ble with Bayes The­o­rem? (The ac­tual math is con­fus­ing)

[SEQ RERUN] The “Out­side the Box” Box

Or­ga­ni­za­tions fo­cused on the ethics and safety of fu­ture technologies

Use­ful Things Vol­un­teers Can Do Right Now

Meetup : Seat­tle: In­tro to Bayes’ Theorem

Meetup : Madison

100 tran­shu­man­ists de­manded im­mor­tal­ity re­searh in the cen­ter of Moscow

[SEQ RERUN] Cached Thoughts

[link] Women in Com­puter Science, Where to Find More Info?

The Ap­par­ent Real­ity of Physics

Cog­ni­tive Style Tends To Pre­dict Reli­gious Con­vic­tion (psy­ch­cen­tral.com)

Sili­con Valley AI/​Ma­chine Learn­ing study group

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Wash­ing­ton DC, Bal­ti­more, Hous­ton, Seat­tle, Edinburgh

Par­ti­cles break light-speed limit?

Liv­ing bias, not think­ing bias

Syntacticism

Re­con­struct­ing vi­sual ex­pe­riences from brain ac­tivity evoked by nat­u­ral movies. [link]

[SEQ RERUN] Do We Believe Every­thing We’re Told?

Ma­chine learn­ing and un­in­tended consequences

[LINK] Cog­ni­tive Bi­ases in Sports: The Ir­ra­tional­ity of Coaches, Com­men­ta­tors and Fans

The neu­ral bases of be­hav­ioral game theory

AGI-2011 con­fer­ence videos

Blind­sight and Consciousness

[LINK] Daniel Pink talks about Motivation

“Tech­ni­cal im­pli­ca­tion: My worst en­emy is an in­stance of my self.”

Re­view: Michel Thomas French (Direct In­struc­tion)

Yet an­other book on life ex­ten­sion—“100+”, au­thor: So­nia Arrison

[SEQ RERUN] Prim­ing and Contamination

Real time video face sub­sti­tu­tion (and the re­sult­ing “psy­cholog­i­cal hacks”)

Bayesian exercise

Meetup : Ot­tawa Weekly Mon­day LessWrong Meetup

Knowl­edge is Worth Pay­ing For

Willpower and diet: ad­vice?

NIH Solic­i­ta­tion: Ba­sic re­search on de­ci­sion making

[SEQ RERUN] A Priori

Meetup : Penn State Univer­sity: NEW Meetup start­ing!

A philos­o­phy pro­fes­sor elic­its col­lege stu­dents’ re­ac­tions to Less Wrong

Goals vs. systems

Sub­jec­tive Realities

Meetup : Austin, TX

You’ll be who you care about