How can we en­sure that a Friendly AI team will be sane enough?

Off to Alice Springs

[SEQ RERUN] Mach’s Prin­ci­ple: Anti-Epiphe­nom­e­nal Physics

Meetup : Weekly Chicago Mee­tups Re­sume 5/​26

Meetup : Van­cou­ver Mini­camp Re­port-Back

[LINK] stats.stack­ex­change.com ques­tion about Shal­izi’s Bayesian Back­ward Ar­row of Time paper

Tools ver­sus agents

Open Thread, May 16-31, 2012

Episte­mol­ogy of evilness

Co­var­i­ance in your sam­ple vs co­var­i­ance in the gen­eral population

A thought about In­ter­net procrastination

Food4Me—per­son­al­ised nu­tri­tion initiative

Overview ar­ti­cle on FAI in a pop­u­lar sci­ence mag­a­z­ine (He­brew)

Gen­eral pur­pose in­tel­li­gence: ar­gu­ing the Orthog­o­nal­ity thesis

I Stand by the Sequences

Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 5/​14/​12

Mega Meetup : Sum­mer Fes­ti­val, hosted by New York

Meetup : Gar­den grove meetup

[SEQ RERUN] My Child­hood Role Model

[LINK] In­ter­na­tional vari­a­tion in IQ – the role of parasites

How many peo­ple here agree with Holden? [Ac­tu­ally, who agrees with Holden?]

Meetup : Melbourne so­cial meetup

[SEQ RERUN] That Alien Message

Q&A with Aubrey de Grey on May 15

Pe­ti­tion: Off topic area

Find­ing Re­search Papers

Cam­bridge LW: Post-mortem

[META] Re­cent Posts for Dis­cus­sion and Main

[SEQ RERUN] Ein­stein’s Speed

Neu­roimag­ing as al­ter­na­tive/​sup­ple­ment to cry­on­ics?

Prac­ti­cal tools and agents

[Book Sugges­tions] Sum­mer Read­ing for Younglings.

Tool for max­i­miz­ing pa­per­clips vs a pa­per­clip maximizer

[SEQ RERUN] Faster Than Science

Most trans­fer­able skills?

[Re­quest­ing Ad­vice] Ap­ply­ing In­stru­men­tal Ra­tion­al­ity to Col­lege Course Selec­tion Dilemma

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Cam­bridge, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, Vancouver

Holden Karnofsky’s Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute cri­tique: Is SI the kind of or­ga­ni­za­tion we want to bet on?

Holden Karnofsky’s Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute cri­tique: other objections

Holden Karnofsky’s Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute Ob­jec­tion 3

Holden Karnofsky’s Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute Ob­jec­tion 2

Holden Karnofsky’s Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute Ob­jec­tion 1

Meetup : Pitts­burgh: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Rationality

Brain Preser­va­tion Foun­da­tion [link]

Thoughts on the Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute (SI)

[SEQ RERUN] Chang­ing the Defi­ni­tion of Science

Strong in­tu­tions. Weak ar­gu­ments. What to do?

Meetup : Big Berkeley Meetup

If epistemic and in­stru­men­tal ra­tio­nal­ity strongly conflict

Au­dio in­ter­view with Judea Pearl [link]