Any­one know of em­piri­cally driven lob­by­ing efforts?

What is the ev­i­dence in fa­vor of pa­leo?

[SEQ RERUN] Optimization

UPDATE: So­ciety of Ven­tur­ism is spear­head­ing Kim Suozzi’s cry­op­reser­va­tion charity

Meetup : Melbourne, prac­ti­cal rationality

Meetup : West LA Meetup—Consciousness

The non­cen­tral fal­lacy—the worst ar­gu­ment in the world?

Stupid Ques­tions Open Thread Round 4

De­ci­sion The­o­ries, Part 3.5: Halt, Melt and Catch Fire

[Draft] Pro­duc­tive Use of Heuris­tics and Biases

Luke’ AMA gets a plug @ Wired [link]

[SEQ RERUN] Psy­chic Powers

Meetup : Fort Col­lins, Colorado Meetup Thurs­day 7pm

PSA: Peo­ple can see what you’ve “liked” and “dis­liked” if you checked “Make my votes pub­lic”

What are use­ful skills to learn at uni­ver­sity?

Neil Arm­strong died be­fore we could defeat death

Mike Dar­win on an­i­mal re­search, moral cow­ardice, and rea­son­ing in an un­car­ing universe

Meetup : SLC, UT: Free Will and Ra­tion­al­ity Checklists

Cry­on­ics dona­tion fund for Kim Suozzi es­tab­lished by So­ciety for Venturism

[SEQ RERUN] Ex­clud­ing the Supernatural

Com­plete­ness of simulations

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin; Bratis­lava, Slo­vakia; Cam­bridge MA; Melbourne; Syd­ney; Wash­ing­ton DC

Us­ing Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity to teach the sci­en­tific method to Psy­chol­ogy undergraduates

[SEQ RERUN] Points of Departure

What’s Wrong with Ev­i­den­tial De­ci­sion The­ory?

Let’s Talk About Intelligence

How to cheat Löb’s The­o­rem: my sec­ond try

Meetup : Dorset Meetup

Head­ing off a near-term AGI arms race

AI timeline pre­dic­tion data

[SEQ RERUN] The Truly Iter­ated Pri­soner’s Dilemma

Four ma­jor prob­lems with neuroscience

[META] In­box icon be­hav­ing unexpectedly

[LINK] Strong AI Startup Raises $15M

Pos­si­ble meetup: Singapore

Sal Khan pub­li­cly pre­dicts the pos­i­tive feed­back loop as­so­ci­ated with hu­man in­tel­li­gence aug­men­ta­tion. [Link]

Meetup : Berkeley meetup: Oper­ant con­di­tion­ing game

Meetup : Paris Meetup

r/​HPMOR on heroic responsibility

Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 8/​20/​12

[SEQ RERUN] The True Pri­soner’s Dilemma

Can we teach Ra­tion­al­ity at the Univer­sity of Red­dit?

Meetup : Ra­tional-Hu­man­ist Open Mic, NYC Septem­ber 5th

Risk aver­sion does not ex­plain peo­ple’s bet­ting behaviours

[Link] So­cial in­ter­ven­tions gone wrong

“Mea­sur­ing the dis­tri­bu­tion of spite­ful­ness”—link

LessWrong could grow a lot, but we’re do­ing it wrong.

[SEQ RERUN] Dreams of Friendliness

Tem­po­rary Hous­ing in the Bos­ton area

[SEQ RERUN] Qual­i­ta­tive Strate­gies of Friendliness