Dragon Ball’s Hyper­bolic Time Chamber

Meetup : Cam­bridge (MA) third-Sun­days Meetup

Meetup : Cam­bridge (MA) first-Sun­days meetup

Meetup : Cam­bridge (MA) third-Sun­days meetup

How to tell apart sci­ence from pseudo-sci­ence in a field you don’t know ?

SI is look­ing to hire some­one to finish a De­ci­sion The­ory FAQ

[SEQ RERUN] Say It Loud

Prevent­ing dis­cus­sion from be­ing wa­tered down by an “end­less Septem­ber” user in­flux.

Meetup : Madi­son: Cached Selves

Meta: What do you think of a karma vote check­list?

Open Thread, Septem­ber 1-15, 2012

[SEQ RERUN] The Sheer Folly of Cal­low Youth

Deal­ing with meta-dis­cus­sion and the sig­nal to noise ra­tio

How do we re­ally es­cape Pri­son­ers’ Dilem­mas?

[Link] Quan­tity Always Trumps Quality

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Dorset, Ohio

Deal­ing with trol­ling and the sig­nal to noise ratio

Whole Brain Emu­la­tion : the gen­tle­man’s choice for Friendly AI. Feed­back needed, edit­ing’s a mess.

[SEQ RERUN] A Prodigy of Refutation

Meetup : Washig­ton DC (prob­a­bly) mini­camp meetup

[Link] Short story by Yvain

Utility func­tions and quan­tum mechanics

Do you BayesBlog? Richard Car­rier is look­ing for links

Coun­ter­fac­tual re­siliency test for non-causal models

[META] Karma for last 30 days?

[SEQ RERUN] Raised in Technophilia

Benefits of Calorie Restric­tion Linked To Other Factors

What Are You Do­ing for Self-Quan­tifi­ca­tion?

[LINK] A Meta-In­duc­tive Ap­proach to Hume’s Prob­lem of Induction

[SEQ RERUN] My Best and Worst Mistake

What’s the Value of In­for­ma­tion?

Is felt prefer­ence a use­ful in­di­ca­tor? (A ram­ble)

Ex­pected util­ity and util­ity af­ter time

11 minute TED talk is about in­stru­men­tal rationality

Ri­gor­ous aca­demic ar­gu­ments on whether AIs can re­place all hu­man work­ers?

Meetup : Berkeley meetup: Cannabis, De­ci­sion-Mak­ing, And A Chance To Change Your Mind

A model of UDT with a con­crete prior over log­i­cal statements

An An­thropic Prin­ci­ple Fairy Tale

Meetup : Pitts­burgh: Ra­tion­al­iza­tion Game

[SEQ RERUN] My Child­hood Death Spiral

The wan­der­ing rationalist

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