PSA for LW fu­tur­ists/​academics

Does the uni­verse con­tain a friendly ar­tifi­cial su­per­in­tel­li­gence?

Very Ba­sic Model Theory

Hu­man Me­mory: Prob­lem Set

Alive­ness in Training

I need some help de­bug­ging my ap­proach to in­for­mal mod­els and reasoning

Why officers vs. en­listed?

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC/​VA Games meetup

Meetup : Durham/​RTLW HPMoR dis­cus­sion, chap­ters 94-96

Democ­racy and rationality

Men­tal Con­text for Model Theory

Bayesi­anism for Humans

Why didn’t peo­ple (ap­par­ently?) un­der­stand the metaethics se­quence?

Meetup : Meetup Bolder CO

MIRI strategy

Goal Set­ting and Goal Achievement

Sup­ple­ment­ing mem­ory with ex­pe­rience sampling

So­cial in­cen­tives af­fect­ing beliefs

Is it worth your time to read a lot of self help and how to books?

Open Thread, Oc­to­ber 27 − 31, 2013

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Think­ing Fast and Slow Discussion

Meetup : At­lanta: Novem­ber Meetup (First of Two)

Repli­cat­ing Dou­glas Le­nat’s Trav­el­ler TCS win with pub­li­cly-known techniques

Only You Can Prevent Your Mind From Get­ting Killed By Politics

In­tel­lec­tual energy

Meth­ods of In­tro­spec­tion: Brain­storm­ing and Discussion

Meetup : West LA—In­side the 5-Se­cond Level

Why you re­ally want a physi­cist to speak at your funeral

Less Wrong’s poli­ti­cal bias

New LW Meetup: Cologne (Köln)

Link dump: Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity in­sti­tute tech­ni­cal reports

[Link] Cog­ni­tive bi­ases about vi­o­lence as a ne­go­ti­at­ing tactic

What should nor­mal peo­ple do?

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Dark Arts Meetup Sun­day Oc­to­ber 27, Illini Union Court­yard Cafe (Ground Floor), 2PM

Meetup : Tempe, AZ: How to Mea­sure Any­thing I

[link] The World’s Most Pow­er­ful MRI Takes Shape

Meetup : Durham NC/​Tri­an­gle Area Meetup: Goal Factoring

Meetup : Saska­toon—Rhetor­i­cal Fal­la­cies!

Con­fu­sion about sci­ence and technology

Re­view of stud­ies says you can de­crease mo­ti­vated cog­ni­tion through self-affirmation

The Cen­ter For Open Science makes $1.3mm available to val­i­date 50 can­cer stud­ies.

Meetup : Lon­don So­cial Meetup (and AskMeAny­thing about the CFAR work­shop)

[LINK] What Can In­ter­net Ads Teach Us About Per­sua­sion?

Is it im­moral to have chil­dren?

Which stage of effec­tive­ness mat­ters most?

LINK: “This novel epi­ge­netic clock can be used to ad­dress a host of ques­tions in de­vel­op­men­tal biol­ogy, can­cer and ag­ing re­search.”

Meetup : Prince­ton NJ Meetup

What Can We Learn About Hu­man Psy­chol­ogy from Chris­tian Apolo­get­ics?

Crit­i­cisms of the Metaethics

[Link] Trou­ble at the lab