Meetup : West LA Meetup—Prob­a­bil­is­tic Graph­i­cal Models, Take 2!

Ter­minol­ogy sug­ges­tion: Say “de­grees util­ity” in­stead of “utils” to prompt af­fine thinking

Epistemic and In­stru­men­tal Tradeoffs

[LINK] Ev­i­dence-based giv­ing by Laura and John Arnold Foundation

[Paper] On the ‘Si­mu­la­tion Ar­gu­ment’ and Selec­tive Scepticism

LINK: Google re­search chief: ‘Emer­gent ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence? Hog­wash!’

Meetup : [Cam­bridge] Sunk Cost Kata

Meetup : First Bris­tol meetup

Ed­u­ca­tion con­trol?

Mo­ral­ity should be Moral

Weekly LW Mee­tups: At­lanta, Austin, Moscow, Ot­tawa, Vancouver

The flawed Tur­ing test: lan­guage, un­der­stand­ing, and par­tial p-zombies

Open thread, May 17-31 2013

The Un­selfish Trol­ley Problem

To In­spire Peo­ple to Give, Be Public About Your Giving

10-Step Anti-Pro­cras­ti­na­tion Checklist

Meetup : Tel Aviv, Is­rael Meetup—Goal Clar­ifi­ca­tion with spe­cial guest Cat from CFAR

Meetup : Lon­don Meetup − 26th May

Meetup : Bielefeld Meetup May 22nd

Meetup : [Moscow] Belief cleaning

Meetup : Durham/​RTLW HPMoR dis­cus­sion, ch. 65-68

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, May 16-31

Why is it ra­tio­nal to in­vest in re­tire­ment? I don’t get it.

Post ridicu­lous munchkin ideas!

[LINK] Prizes and open source for drug re­search (pro­posed, and some poli­tics)

Crash prob­lems for to­tal futarchy

Kevin Drum’s Ar­ti­cle about AI and Technology

How to Build a Community

Ad­just­ing Effort to Barely Meet Standards

Im­prov­ing Cry­on­ics—Reg­u­la­tions and Eth­i­cal Considerations

Meetup : Paris Meetup: Sun­day, May 26.

Avoid­ing the emer­gency room

The im­pact of whole brain emulation

Megameetup An­nounce­ment: Bos­ton, July 13-14

The Power of Pomodoros

Meetup : Berkeley: Munchkinism

Re­minder Memes

[LINK] Scat­ter, Adapt, and Re­mem­ber: How Hu­mans Will Sur­vive a Mass Extinction

Any­one live in or near Osaka?

The au­topi­lot prob­lem: driv­ing with­out experience

[SEQ RERUN] Fi­nal Words

Un­limited Po­modoro Works: My Schedul­ing System

How to cal­ibrate your poli­ti­cal beliefs

Com­puter Science and Soft­ware Engineering

Meetup : Melbourne So­cial Meetup

LW Study Hall − 2 Month Update

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC Munch­inkry meetup

Keep­ing Choices Dona­tion Neutral

[SEQ RERUN] Prac­ti­cal Ad­vice Backed By Deep Theories

new meetup policy: pro­mote posts only with first-time meetups