How con­fi­dent is your athe­ism?

Brain­storm­ing help re­quest: teach­ing ra­tio­nal­ity ba­sics in an RPG setting

Or­ganic food, con­ven­tional food

Meetup : Helsinki Meetup

AGI Im­pacts con­fer­ence in Oxford in De­cem­ber, with Call for Papers

Wanted: “The AIs will need hu­mans” arguments

Brain­storm­ing ad­di­tional AI risk re­duc­tion ideas

[SEQ RERUN] The De­sign Space of Minds in General

[Link] Can We Re­v­erse The Stan­ford Pri­son Ex­per­i­ment?

In­ter­est in Mee­tups start­ing this fall at the Univer­sity of Illinois at Ur­bana-Cham­paign?

Se­bas­tian Thrun AMA on red­dit [link]

Com­pu­ta­tion Hazards

Meetup : São Paulo Meet Up 3

Meetup : São Paulo Meet Up 3

MIT is work­ing on in­dus­trial robots that (at­tempt to) learn what hu­mans want from them [link]

Ad­vices needed for a pre­sen­ta­tion on rationality

The New Yorker ar­ti­cle on cog­ni­tive biases

[SEQ RERUN] The Psy­cholog­i­cal Unity of Humankind

Meetup : Chicago games at Harold Wash­ing­ton Library (Sun 6/​17)

Neu­ro­science ba­sics for LessWrongians

Meetup : Big Berkeley meetup

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