Meetup : Durham Meetup: Ar­ti­cle discussions

Us­ing ex­ist­ing Strong AIs as case studies

Open Thread, Oc­to­ber 16-31, 2012

Meetup : Durham HPMoR Dis­cus­sion group

Look­ing for al­ter­a­tion sug­ges­tions for the offi­cial Se­quences ebook

Happy Ada Lovelace Day

[LINK] Willpower Is All In Your Head

Meetup : Moscow: Bi­ases, Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity, Vi­sual Thinking

Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 10/​15/​12

Think­ing soberly about the con­text and con­se­quences of Friendly AI

[SEQ RERUN] Back Up and Ask Whether, Not Why

De­ci­sion the­ory and “win­ning”

Sin­gu­lar­ity Sum­mit 2012, dis­cuss it here

Prob­lem of Op­ti­mal False Information

A pre­sen­ta­tion about Cox’s The­o­rem made for my English class

[SEQ RERUN] Com­plex­ity and Intelligence

The deeper solu­tion to the mys­tery of moral­ism—Believ­ing in moral­ity and free will are haz­ardous to your men­tal health

Ra­tion­al­ity, Tran­shu­man­ism, and Men­tal Health

The ba­sic ar­gu­ment for the fea­si­bil­ity of transhumanism

[Link] Scien­tists to simu­late hu­man brain in­side a su­per­com­puter

Alter­nate ap­proaches to Pas­cal’s Mugging

Good tran­shu­man­ist fic­tion?

Notes from On­line Op­ti­mal Philan­thropy Meetup: 12-10-09

[SEQ RERUN] Build­ing Some­thing Smarter

A pos­si­ble solu­tion to pas­cals mug­ging.

Causal Di­a­grams and Causal Models

Meetup : SLC Meetup: Free Will, Mini­camp Brain­dump, and Group Goals

Rais­ing the fore­cast­ing wa­ter­line (part 2)

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Berkeley, Bielefield, Cam­bridge MA, Chicago, Durham NC (2), Ur­bana-Cham­paign, Wash­ing­ton DC

[SEQ RERUN] Mun­dane Magic

Meetup : Madi­son: Prospect Theory

LessWrong, can you help me find an ar­ti­cle I read a few months ago, I think here?

The Fabric of Real Things

[Link] Free TEDYouth Event in NYC for High School Students

Meetup : Bratis­lava meetup

[Link] Are Chil­dren Nat­u­ral Bayesi­ans?

[Link] Learn­ing New Lan­guages Helps The Brain Grow

Meetup : Melbourne so­cial meetup

[SEQ RERUN] In­tel­li­gence in Economics

[Link] One in five Amer­i­can adults say they are athe­ist, ag­nos­tic or “noth­ing in par­tic­u­lar”

Aban­don­ing Cached Selves to Re-Write My Source Code Par­tially, I’ve Be­come Unstable

[Link] “Fewer than X% of Amer­i­cans know Y”

[Link] Think Bayes: Bayesian Statis­tics Made Simple

Clar­ifi­ca­tion: Be­havi­ourism & Reinforcement

[SEQ RERUN] Eco­nomic Defi­ni­tion of Intelligence

Meta-rationality

com­ment to dude

Meetup : West LA Meetup—Rea­son­ing About Politics

Signs you’re on LW too much

Rais­ing the fore­cast­ing wa­ter­line (part 1)