Altru­is­tic Kid­ney Donation

[Link] Nick Bostrom on the Sta­tus Quo Bias

[video] Kelly McGoni­gal on willpower

What is the best way to read the se­quences?

SIAI May report

Ar­ri­son, Vas­sar and de Grey speak­ing at Peter Thiel’s startup class [link]

[SEQ RERUN] 2-Place and 1-Place Words

Cards Against Rationality

Brief re­sponse to kalla724 on pre­serv­ing per­sonal iden­tity with vitrification

Mov­ing blogs

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Melbourne, Phoenix, Sydney

Coursera Be­havi­oural Neu­rol­ogy Course

Beer with Char­lie Stross in Munich

[SEQ RERUN] No Univer­sally Com­pel­ling Arguments

[Cry­on­ics News] Aus­tralian cry­on­ics startup: Sta­sis Sys­tems Aus­tralia update

Open Thread, June 16-30, 2012

What’s the best way to rest?

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