Cen­tre for the Study of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk (CSER) at Cam­bridge makes head­lines.

Meetup : Weekly meetup, Cham­paign IL: Cafe Paradiso

Meetup : Moscow: Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity and Cog­ni­tive Biases

Meetup : Berkeley meetup: Hermeneu­tics!

What do you think of my read­ing list?

[SEQ RERUN] En­gelbart: In­suffi­ciently Recursive

Cre­dence cal­ibra­tion game FAQ

How min­i­mal is our in­tel­li­gence?

LW Women- Min­i­miz­ing the In­fer­en­tial Distance

[SEQ RERUN] Ab­stract/​Dis­tant Fu­ture Bias

Cry­onic re­s­ur­rec­tion—an eth­i­cal hypothetical

Meetup : Brus­sels meetup

Math­e­mat­i­cal Mea­sures of Op­ti­miza­tion Power

[SEQ RERUN] …Re­cur­sion, Magic

Over­con­fi­dent Pessimism

Ex­am­ple of neu­rons use­fully com­mu­ni­cat­ing with­out synapses found in flies [LINK]

[Link] 12 Myths about Hunger

Musk, Mars and x-risk

Meetup : Phoenix, AZ: Sto­icism and Visi­tors: 6 De­cem­ber 6:00PM

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Chicago, Cinc­in­nati/​Colum­bus, Cleve­land/​Akron, Durham, Lon­don, Moscow, Pader­born, Salt Lake City, Wash­ing­ton DC

Re­quest for com­mu­nity insight

Break­down of ex­is­ten­tial risks

Meetup : Meetup : Bielefeld Meetup, De­cem­ber 5th

Coun­ter­fac­tual self-defense

[link] Mis­in­for­ma­tion and Its Cor­rec­tion: Con­tinued In­fluence and Suc­cess­ful Debiasing

Play­ing the stu­dent: at­ti­tudes to learn­ing as so­cial roles

The wan­der­ing ra­tio­nal­ist: an update

“Op­ti­mal” mam­mog­ra­phy?

AGI-12 and AGI-Im­pacts—late places available

Meetup : First meetup in Inns­bruck

[LINK] IBM simu­late a “brain” with 500 billion neu­rons and 100 trillion synapses

Tech­ni­cal Univer­si­ties in Europe: a Recom­men­da­tion Thread

Meetup : LessWrong Mon­treal—Ad­vanced Episte­mol­ogy 101

Ideas needed for a Psy­chol­ogy ex­per­i­ment in­volv­ing pop­u­lar fic­tion (Movies mainly) and bi­ases and heuristics

Stop learn­ing, start think­ing [LINK]

Meetup : Melbourne, prac­ti­cal rationality

Meetup : At­lanta—Prac­ti­cal Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup Session

Re­sponses to ques­tions on donat­ing to 80k, GWWC, EAA and LYCS

Mir­a­cle Min­eral Supplement

The Evil AI Over­lord List

Meetup : Ber­lin Meetup

Meetup : Pitts­burgh: af­fect­ing the far future

The Case against Killer Robots (link)

[Pro­posed Paper] Pre­dict­ing Ma­chine Su­per Intelligence

[SEQ RERUN] When Life is Cheap, Death is Cheap

Good Places to Live as a Less Wronger

GiveWell and the Cen­tre for Effec­tive Altru­ism are recruiting

Col­lat­ing widely available time/​money trades

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

Aus­tralian Ra­tion­al­ist in America