Ethics of Brain Emulation

Ques­tions and com­ments about Eliezer’s Dec. 2 2013 Oxford speech

Meetup : Bos­ton/​Cam­bridge—The At­ten­tion Economy

Meetup : Frank­furt meetup:

De­cem­ber Monthly Brag­ging Thread

Open Thread, De­cem­ber 2-8, 2013

Meetup : Bay Area Solstice

Meetup : Less­wrong Boulder CO

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, De­cem­ber 1-15

[Link] Good Judg­ment Pro­ject, Sea­son Three

De­cem­ber 2013 Me­dia Thread

Failing to update

A cri­tique of effec­tive altruism

In Praise of Tribes that Pre­tend to Try: Counter-”Cri­tique of Effec­tive Altru­ism”

Rea­sons to believe

Re­search on cli­mate organizations

Meetup : Van­cou­ver ra­tio­nal­ists—new meetup location

Meetup : Lon­don Prac­ti­cal Meetup—Cal­ibra­tion Train­ing!

Anony­mous feed­back forms revisited

Meetup : Sec­u­lar Sols­tice Cel­e­bra­tion! (And the Inau­gu­ra­tion of the LW Leipzig Com­mu­nity)

Meetup : De­cem­ber Prac­ti­cal Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup

Ac­cord­ing to Dale Carnegie, You Can’t Win an Ar­gu­ment—and He Has a Point

[LINK] Will Eat­ing Nuts Save Your Life?

Meetup : Utrecht

New LW Meetup: Mumbai

Meetup : San Fran­cisco /​ App Academy meetup [LOCATION CHANGE]

Mak­ing the chaff in­visi­ble, and get­ting the wheat ($200 prize too)

Meetup : West LA—A Con­ver­sa­tion About Conversations

Meetup : Mu­nich Meetup

A model of AI development

The Ape Con­straint dis­cus­sion meet­ing.

[link] Psy­chol­o­gists strike a blow for reproducibility

The Rele­vance of Ad­vanced Vo­cab­u­lary to Rationality

How do you tell proto-sci­ence from pseudo-sci­ence?

Meetup : Lon­don So­cial Meetup, 01/​12/​2013

Wait vs In­ter­rupt Culture

Map­ping the brain with water

Map­ping the brain with wa­ter.

On Wal­mart, And Who Bears Re­spon­si­bil­ity For the Poor

Meetup : New­cas­tle-upon-Tyne meetup, December

Notic­ing some­thing com­pletely ab­surd about yourself

Stable and Un­sta­ble Risks

Links: so-called “knock­out game” a “myth and a “bo­gus trend.”

What do we already have right?

Some thoughts on re­la­tions be­tween ma­jor eth­i­cal systems

Meetup : Helsinki Meetup

‘Effec­tive Altru­ism’ as util­i­tar­ian equiv­o­ca­tion.

Gel­man Against Parsimony

What can we learn from freema­sonry?

Prob­a­bil­ity and rad­i­cal uncertainty