Work­ing out con­se­quences of sci­ence-fic­tional ideas

Look­ing for a likely cause of a men­tal phenomenon

De­cem­ber 2012 Me­dia Thread

[link] In­ter­view with An­ders Sand­berg on how to make a differ­ence through re­search and how to choose a re­search topic

Open Thread, De­cem­ber 1-15, 2012

[SEQ RERUN] Stuck In Throat

Meetup : First Pur­due Meetup

Meetup : Durham HPMoR Dis­cus­sion, chap­ters 18-20

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Brus­sels, Mon­treal, Pitts­burgh, St. Louis

Meetup : Cam­bridge, MA first-Sun­day meetup

New WBE implementation

[SEQ RERUN] Sin­gle­tons Rule OK

One thou­sand tips do not make a system

The substrate

Akra­sia hack survey

Philos­o­phy Needs to Trust Your Ra­tion­al­ity Even Though It Shouldn’t

Meetup : Seat­tle Meetup: Bayes The­o­rem Tutorial

In­tu­itions Aren’t Shared That Way

[SEQ RERUN] To­tal Tech Wars

Causal Universes

Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 11/​28/​12

[SEQ RERUN] Dreams of Autarky

Meetup : Durham NC meetup: Ra­tion­al­ity Checklist

[LINK] “Mo­ral Machines” ar­ti­cle in the New Yorker links to SI paper

Thoughts on de­sign­ing poli­cies for oneself

Should cor­re­la­tion co­effi­cients be ex­pressed as an­gles?

Meetup : 02/​12 Lon­don Meetup

What is your true de­ci­sion met­ric? A look at medici­nal chemists

A defi­ni­tion of wireheading

Meetup : Mon­treal Meetup—Bi­ases and Bi­ased Boardgaming

Hold­ing your own LW Solstice

[SEQ RERUN] To­tal Nano Domination

[META] Retribu­tive down­vot­ing: Why?

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