How well defined is ADHD?

Giv­ing What We Can, 80,000 Hours, and Meta-Charity

Em­piri­cal claims, prefer­ence claims, and at­ti­tude claims

A sum­mary of the Han­son-Yud­kowsky FOOM debate

Launched: Friend­ship is Optimal

[SEQ RERUN] Billion Dol­lar Bots

Meetup : Salt Lake City Monthly meetup

Sig­nal­ling fal­la­cies: Im­pli­ca­tion vs. Inference

Meetup : Cinc­in­nati/​Colum­bus: Me­mori­sa­tion ex­er­cise (NB, time changed)

Meetup : Durham HPMoR Dis­cus­sion, chap­ters 15-17

[LINK] Steven Lands­burg “Ac­count­ing for Num­bers”—re­sponse to EY’s “Log­i­cal Pin­point­ing”

In­stru­men­tal ra­tio­nal­ity for over­com­ing dis­abil­ity and lifestyle failure (a spe­cific case)

[SEQ RERUN] Brain Emu­la­tion and Hard Takeoff

Univer­sal agents and util­ity functions

[Link] “An OKCupid Pro­file of a Ra­tion­al­ist”

Meetup : Chicago Or­ga­ni­za­tional Meet­ing and Open Discussion

Meetup : Berkeley meetup: De­liber­ate performance

How can I re­duce ex­is­ten­tial risk from AI?

Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 11/​13/​12

CFAR and SI MOOCs: a Great Opportunity

[SEQ RERUN] Emu­la­tions Go Foom

Short in­tro­duc­tory ma­te­ri­als for a ra­tio­nal­ity meetup

Si­mu­la­tion­ist sym­pa­thetic magic

Coursera course on crit­i­cal thinking

Ra­tion­al­ist subreddit

A hy­poth­e­sis con­cern­ing dis­count­ing.

Gap in un­der­stand­ing of Log­i­cal Pinpointing

SIA, con­di­tional prob­a­bil­ity and Jaan Tal­linn’s simu­la­tion tree

SIA fears (ex­pected) infinity

Dig­ging the Bull’s Horn

[SEQ RERUN] Life’s Story Continues

Meetup : Pitts­burgh: Value of Information

Ques­tions from po­ten­tial donors to Giv­ing What We Can, 80,000 Hours and EAA

Meetup : Pader­born Meetup, Novem­ber 22th

[SEQ RERUN] Ob­serv­ing Optimization

Struck with a be­lief in Alien presence

De­tect­ing Web baloney with your nose?

Cry­on­ics as Charity

NKCDT: The Big Bang Theory

[SEQ RERUN] Eliezer’s Meta-Level Determinism

[SEQ RERUN] Op­ti­miza­tion and the Singularity

How many of you do­ing Khan Academy?

If MWI is cor­rect, should we ex­pect to ex­pe­rience Quan­tum Tor­ment?

Bug: The “Load all com­ments” link doesn’t work

Meetup : Toronto THINK

Meetup : (Seat­tle) Conscientiousness

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Ber­lin, Cam­bridge UK, Cham­paign IL, Durham NC (2), Wash­ing­ton DC

[SEQ RERUN] AI Go Foom

XKCD—Fre­quen­tist vs. Bayesians

Meetup : Ber­lin Meetup