Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Novem­ber 16-30

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Cry­on­ics, Con­test Results

Hap­piness and Pro­duc­tivity. Liv­ing Alone. Liv­ing with Friends. Liv­ing with Fam­ily.

CRISPR opens up new ge­netic en­g­ineer­ing potential

Lon­don LW CoZE ex­er­cise report

Lot­ter­ies & MWI

Sk­irt­ing the mere ad­di­tion paradox

To the folks who met in Prince­ton Satur­day 11/​16/​2013

Another prob­lem with quan­tum measure

Meetup : Moscow, Me­mory Tricks

Meetup : Lon­don So­cial Meetup, 24/​11/​2013 [Back to the Shake­speare’s Head]

Feed­back from Less Wrong Community

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC fun and games meetup

Weak re­pug­nant con­clu­sion need not be so re­pug­nant given fixed resources

Quan­tum ver­sus log­i­cal bombs

Main­stream Episte­mol­ogy for LessWrong, Part 1: Feld­man on Evidentialism

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC: Goals, Poli­ti­cal Ad­vo­cacy as Effec­tive Altru­ism, and Sto­ries

Self-serv­ing meta: Who­ever keeps block-down­vot­ing me, is there some way to ne­go­ti­ate peace?

I am switch­ing to biomed­i­cal en­g­ineer­ing and am look­ing for feed­back on my strat­egy and assumptions

Open Thread, Novem­ber 15-22, 2013

Re­search on un­con­scious vi­sual processing

The Restora­tion of William: the skele­ton of a short story about re­s­ur­rec­tion and identity

Weekly LW Meetups

[Video Link] PostHu­man: An In­tro­duc­tion to Transhumanism

Game the­ory and ex­pected opponents

I no­tice that I am con­fused about Iden­tity and Resurrection

The fu­ture of val­ues 2: ex­plicit vs. implicit

Meetup : West LA—In Ap­pre­hend­ing Hard Stuff

Meetup : Durham/​RTLW HPMoR dis­cus­sion, ch. 97-98

To like, or not to like?

Help the Brain Preser­va­tion Foundation

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Think­ing Fast and Slow Dis­cus­sion Novem­ber 17

Am I Un­der­stand­ing Bayes Right?

LessWrong Study Hall will be pass­word-protected

Meetup : New Meetup: Milwaukee

Wolfram’s new “Cloud” initiative

Buy­ing Debt as Effec­tive Altru­ism?

How to have high-value conversations

Meetup : Mon­treal Meetup: Long-term de­ci­sion-making

Meetup : Brus­sels monthly meetup: time!

Meetup : Lon­don so­cial meetup—New venue

Meetup : Amsterdam

MIRI course list study pairs

On learn­ing difficult things

AI Policy?

Re­duced im­pact AI: no back channels

Meetup : Berlin

Meetup : Saint-Peters­burg: Game Event

De­sign-space traps: map­ping the util­ity-de­sign tra­jec­tory space

Meetup : DC Meetup: Goals spread­sheet, poli­ti­cal ad­vo­cacy as effec­tive al­tru­ism, scary ra­tio­nal­ist stories