The Creat­ing Bob the Jerk prob­lem. Is it a real prob­lem in de­ci­sion the­ory?

How to Run a Suc­cess­ful Less Wrong Meetup

Do strange sce­nar­ios help us ask why not?

Meetup : Ber­lin Meetup

Re­ply to Holden on ‘Tool AI’

[Link] The Greek He­lio­cen­tric Theory

Glenn Beck dis­cusses the Sin­gu­lar­ity, cites SI researchers

Let’s all learn stats!

Meetup : Less Wrong Syd­ney—June

[Video] Pre­sen­ta­tion on metacog­ni­tion con­tains good in­tro to ba­sic LW ideas

[Link] Some notes on Ra­tion­al­ity in Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Rationality

Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 6/​11/​12

[SEQ RERUN] Op­ti­miza­tion and the Singularity

Atk­ins Diet—How Should I Up­date?

In­tel­lec­tual in­su­lar­ity and pro­duc­tivity

Opaque frag­ile sys­tems/​in­sti­tu­tions dom­i­nate.

Seek­ing in­for­ma­tion rele­vant to de­cid­ing whether to try to be­come an AI re­searcher and, if so, how.

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC Meetup

[link] Aubrey de Grey an­swers Red­dit AMA in video

[SEQ RERUN] Sur­face Analo­gies and Deep Causes

I think I’ve found the source of what’s been bug­ging me about “Friendly AI”

Meetup : Punt Trip

[SEQ RERUN] The Out­side View’s Domain

Meetup : Van­cou­ver Big Public Meetup

What was your biggest re­cent sur­prise?

Pro­posal: Show up and down votes separately

Con­spir­acy The­o­ries as Agency Fictions

Are the bac­te­ria/​par­a­sites in your gut af­fect­ing your think­ing?

[SEQ RERUN] Head­ing Toward Morality

Com­bin­ing causal­ity with al­gorith­mic in­for­ma­tion theory

Ask an ex­per­i­men­tal physicist

Teach­ing Bayesianism

Meetup : Pitts­burgh—Past Wrongs

Near Con­cerns About Life Extension

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Ber­lin, Buenos Aires, Cam­bridge MA, Pittsburgh

Thoughts and prob­lems with Eliezer’s mea­sure of op­ti­miza­tion power

[SEQ RERUN] LA-602 vs RHIC Review

De­bate be­tween 80,000 hours and a socialist

Peter Thiel’s AGI dis­cus­sion in his star­tups class @ Stan­ford [link]

[Link] Nerds are nuts

[SEQ RERUN] Ghosts in the Machine

Is there math for in­ter­plane­tary travel vs ex­is­ten­tial risk?

Free Kin­dle Text­book: The Cere­bel­lum: Brain for an Im­plicit Self (FT Press Science)

Mailing List for Digi­tized Belief Net­work Discussion

Poly mar­riage?

Build­ing to­ward a Friendly AI team

[Link] SMBC on choos­ing your simu­la­tions carefully

Phil Zim­bardo an­swer­ing ques­tions on Reddit

Strate­gic re­search on AI risk

Help please!