Open Thread, May 1-14, 2013

Meetup : Durham/​RTLW HPMoR dis­cus­sion, ch. 61-63

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, May 1-15

What do pro­fes­sional philoso­phers be­lieve, and why?

May 2013 Me­dia Thread

[SEQ RERUN] Col­lec­tive Apa­thy and the Internet

Mor­tal: A Transpony­ist Fanfiction

[LINK] The Un­be­liev­ers: Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawk­ins Team Up Against Religion

Meetup : Group De­ci­sion Mak­ing (the good, the bad, and the con­fu­sion of welfare eco­nomics)

Meetup : Buf­falo LW Sun­day Meetup

Meetup : Big Gam­ing Fun 6: A New Begin­ning!

[SEQ RERUN] By­s­tan­der Apathy

[Link] Ca­plan asks for help op­ti­miz­ing his will.

New re­port: In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sion Microeconomics

Prob­lems in Education

[Link] 2012 Win­ter In­tel­li­gence Con­fer­ence videos available

Good luck, Mr. Rationalist

Priv­ileg­ing the Question

Meetup : NewYork—Hu­man­ist Cul­ture Open Mic

[LINK] Is it worth the time?

Meetup : Brus­sels meetup

Meet up in St. Peters­burg, Russia

LW Women En­tries- Creepiness

Meetup : At­lanta Less­wrong’s May Meetup: The Ra­tion­al­ity of So­cial Re­la­tion­ships, Friend­ship, Love, and Fam­ily.

Three more ways iden­tity can be a curse

The Up­ward Scal­ing Im­por­tance of Rationality

Are there good rea­sons to get into a PHD (i.e. in Philos­o­phy)? And what to op­ti­mize for in such case?

Links pass­ing through api.viglink.com?

Weekly LW Mee­tups: At­lanta, Austin, Ber­lin, Brus­sels, Cam­bridge MA, Cinc­in­nati, Durham, Van­cou­ver, Wash­ing­ton DC

Prob­a­bil­is­tic Löb theorem

Logic in the lan­guage of probability

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC books meetup

Meetup : Bratis­lava less­wrong meetup III

At­tempt­ing to res­cue log­i­cal positivism

Real-world ex­am­ples of money-pump­ing?

[LINK] How to cal­ibrate your con­fi­dence intervals

Google’s Ex­ec­u­tive Chair­man Eric Sch­midt: ap­par­ently a transhumanist

Tac­tics against Pas­cal’s Mugging

Michael Vas­sar in Europe

Sort­ing Comments

Rocket sci­ence and big money—a cau­tion­ary tale of math gone wrong

[SEQ RERUN] Akra­sia and Shangri-La

Nor­ma­tivity and Meta-Philosophy

[LINK] SMBC on AI and altruism

[LINK] Pos­si­ble Un­rep­re­sen­ta­tive Sub­jects in Stud­ies of Med­i­cal Interventions

[SEQ RERUN] The Un­finished Mys­tery of the Shangri-La Diet

Com­pro­mise: Send Meta Dis­cus­sions to the Unoffi­cial LessWrong Subreddit

A thought-pro­cess test­ing opportunity

Minor, per­spec­tive chang­ing facts

Meetup : Durham NC meetup: Liv­ing Lu­mi­nously, Part 2