GiveWell and the Cen­tre for Effec­tive Altru­ism are recruiting

Col­lat­ing widely available time/​money trades

[SEQ RERUN] Cas­cades, Cy­cles, In­sight...

Aus­tralian Ra­tion­al­ist in America

On­line Meetup: The High Im­pact Network

Meetup : Brus­sels meetup

In­tro­duc­tory Short Videos

Open Thread, Novem­ber 16–30, 2012

“How We’re Pre­dict­ing AI — or Failing to”

[SEQ RERUN] “Evict­ing” brain emulations

If you could take it with you, what would you take?

What does the world look like, the day be­fore FAI efforts suc­ceed?

Room for more fund­ing at the Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity Institute

Pre­dic­tion: Autism Rate will Stop Increasing

Why is Men­cius Mold­bug so pop­u­lar on Less Wrong? [An­swer: He’s not.]

Meetup : Mon­treal Mee­tups—Now weekly!

Meetup : Cam­bridge, MA third-Sun­days meetup

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Ber­lin, Cham­paign, Melbourne, Rio de Janeiro, Springfield MO, Wash­ing­ton DC

[draft] Re­sponses to Catas­trophic AGI Risk: A Survey

[SEQ RERUN] Sur­prised By Brains

Meetup : DC Meetup: Boardgames

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