Tips for Start­ing Group Houses

What about a line of re­treat for the psy­chol­o­gists?

Open Thread, July 16-31, 2012

Meetup : Melbourne So­cial Meetup

Re­vis­it­ing SI’s 2011 strate­gic plan: How are we do­ing?

[SEQ RERUN] The Mean­ing of Right

Tool/​Agent dis­tinc­tion in the light of the AI box experiment

Bar­gain­ing and Auctions

Magic play­ers: “How do I lose?”

[SEQ RERUN] Set­ting Up Metaethics

Why could you be op­ti­mistic that the Sin­gu­lar­ity is Near?

What Longevity Re­search Most Ex­cites You?

Berkeley visit report

PZ My­ers on the In­fea­si­bil­ity of Whole Brain Emulation

[SEQ RERUN] Chang­ing Your Metaethics

Where did math­e­mat­ics be­gin to dis­agree be­tween fre­quen­tist and Bayesian statis­tics, and why?

Ruth­less Extrapolation

Ad­ding up to normality

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Berkeley, Hy­der­abad, Madi­son, New Jersey, Salt Lake City, Tuc­son, Wash­ing­ton DC

Con­fused about Solomonoff induction

Two books by Celia Green

[SEQ RERUN] Does Your Mo­ral­ity Care What You Think?

Wor­ld­viewNat­u­ral­ism.com: A “land­ing page” for sci­en­tific naturalism

New book on athe­ism, tran­shu­man­ism, and x-risk

Valuable Things to Know While Dis­cussing Mo­ral Philosophy

What Is Sig­nal­ing, Really?

[SEQ RERUN] Math is Sub­junc­tively Objective

What Is Op­ti­mal Philan­thropy?

Ra­tional Ethics

Moder­ate al­co­hol con­sump­tion in­versely cor­re­lated with all-cause mortality

Use­ful maxims

Kurzweil’s pre­dic­tions: good ac­cu­racy, poor self-calibration

An In­tu­itive Ex­pla­na­tion of Solomonoff Induction

[SEQ RERUN] Can Coun­ter­fac­tu­als Be True?

Ra­tion­al­ity and Cancer

Meetup : Van­cou­ver Big Monthly

Re­ply to Holden on The Sin­gu­lar­ity Institute

SI vis­it­ing fel­low Diego Caleiro gives a TED talk on Friendly AI

Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 7/​9/​12

Cul­tural norms in choice of mate

[SEQ RERUN] When (Not) To Use Probabilities

Steam Greenlight

Dual N-Back browser-based “game” in pub­lic alpha-test­ing state.

Low hang­ing fruit: Web­sites that sig­nifi­cantly im­prove your life?

Should LW have a sep­a­rate AI sec­tion?

Muehlhauser-Hib­bard Dialogue on AGI

How Bayes’ the­o­rem is con­sis­tent with Solomonoff induction

Ad­vice On Get­ting A Soft­ware Job

Value of a Com­pu­ta­tional Pro­cess?

[link] Cargo Cult Debugging