Meetup : 16/​12 Lon­don Meetup

AI “Box­ing” and Utility Functions

Meetup : Berkeley: Boardgames

Ab­sent Tran­shu­man­ism and Trans­for­ma­tive Tech­nolo­gies, Which Utopia is Left?

Mini ad­vent cal­en­dar of Xrisks: nanotechnology

[SEQ RERUN] Whither Man­u­fac­tur­ing?

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC meetup- new se­quence?

How to in­cen­tivize LW wiki ed­its?

Mixed Refer­ence: The Great Re­duc­tion­ist Project

Is Equal­ity Really about Diminish­ing Marginal Utility?

How to Avoid the Con­flict Between Fem­i­nism and Evolu­tion­ary Psy­chol­ogy?

The Worst Prob­lem You’ve Ever En­coun­tered and Solved. And the One You Didn’t, Yet!

Poli­tics Dis­cus­sion Thread De­cem­ber 2012

Meetup : Mon­treal LessWrong Meetup—More Bi­ases and Bi­ased Board Gaming

Mini ad­vent cal­en­dar of Xrisks: syn­thetic biology

Mini ad­vent cal­en­dar of Xrisks: nu­clear war

Pre­dic­tion Sources

[SEQ RERUN] Re­cur­sive Self-Improvement

Meetup : At­lanta LessWrong Mee­tups REBOOT

Two Anki plu­g­ins to re­in­force re­view­ing (up­dated)

Fac­tions, in­equal­ity, and so­cial justice

[LINK] AmA by com­pu­ta­tional neu­ro­scien­tists be­hind ‘the world’s largest func­tional brain model’

Most Likely Cause of an Apoca­lypse on De­cem­ber 21

A solv­able New­comb-like prob­lem—part 2 of 3

A solv­able New­comb-like prob­lem—part 1 of 3

LessWrong podcasts

[SEQ RERUN] I Heart CYC

Meetup : Van­cou­ver!

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes De­cem­ber 2012

[Link] Con­test­ing the “Na­ture” Of Con­for­mity: What Mil­gram and Zim­bardo’s Stud­ies Really Show

What sci­ence needs

LessWrong IQ Survey

What are you work­ing on? De­cem­ber 2012

Athe­ists who be­lieve that God exists

[Link] Ide­ol­ogy, Mo­ti­vated Rea­son­ing, and Cog­ni­tive Reflec­tion: An Ex­per­i­men­tal Study

[Link] The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.

[SEQ RERUN] Dis­ap­point­ment in the Future

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