How does long-term use of caf­feine af­fect pro­duc­tivity?

against “AI risk”

Cracked wrote an Ar­ti­cle about Life-Extension

Help me teach Bayes’

How does re­mote Joule heat­ing of car­bon nan­otubes ad­vance sin­gu­lar­ity timelines?

Meetup : Small Berkeley meetup

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 15, chap­ter 84

At­ten­tion con­trol is crit­i­cal for chang­ing/​in­creas­ing/​al­ter­ing motivation

Left-wing Alarmism vs. Right-wing Op­ti­mism: ev­i­dence on which is cor­rect?

School es­say: out­sourc­ing some brain work

Meetup : West LA Meetup—The Re­sis­tance (Game)

Let’s cre­ate a mar­ket for cryonics

Robots ate my job [links]

In Defense of Ayn Rand

[SEQ RERUN] Zom­bies: The Movie

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity predictions

In­fluence of sci­en­tific research

The Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute STILL needs re­mote re­searchers (may ap­ply again; writ­ing skill not re­quired)

[SEQ RERUN] Iden­tity Isn’t In Spe­cific Atoms

Al­cor vs. Cry­on­ics Institute

The prin­ci­ple of ‘al­tru­is­tic ar­bi­trage’

“Big Sur­prise”—the fa­mous athe­ists are ac­tu­ally Bayesi­ans [link]

Two ar­ti­cles about fu­tur­ism [LINKS]

Ex­plor­ing the Idea Space Efficiently

[link] Is Alu Life?

AI risk bibliog­ra­phy (draft)

[link] TEDxYale—Keith Chen—The Im­pact of Lan­guage on Eco­nomic Be­hav­ior

AI Risk & Op­por­tu­nity: Strate­gic Anal­y­sis Via Prob­a­bil­ity Tree

[SEQ RERUN] No In­di­vi­d­ual Particles

bino­mial var­i­ance problem

De­ci­sion The­o­ries: A Semi-For­mal Anal­y­sis, Part II

Com­plex­ity based moral val­ues.

Meetup : London

Meetup : Bu­dapest Meetup

Meetup : Fort Col­lins, Colorado Meetup Wedne­day 7pm

Meetup : Long­mont Spark­fun Sold­er­ing Com­pe­ti­tion Field Trip

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Berkeley, Madi­son, Melbourne, Norwich

Meetup : Twin Cities, MN (for real this time)

Peter Singer and Tyler Cowen transcript

SMBC comic: poorly pro­grammed av­er­age-util­ity-max­i­miz­ing AI

Look­ing for re­duc­tion­ism help

A Pois­son pro­cess paradox

[SEQ RERUN] Feyn­man Paths

Meetup : Mon­day Madi­son Meetup

Forked Rus­sian Roulette and An­ti­ci­pa­tion of Survival

Meetup : First Dorset UK Meetup

File Un­der “Keep Your Iden­tity Small”

Meetup : Austin, TX

Logic of Para­dox: a (too) sim­ple para­con­sis­tent logic

Skoll World Fo­rum: Catas­trophic Risk and Threats to the Global Commons