Could Robots Take All Our Jobs?: A Philo­soph­i­cal Perspective

Ro­bust­ness of Cost-Effec­tive­ness Es­ti­mates and Philanthropy

Is a pa­per­clip­per bet­ter than noth­ing?

[LINK] Raw Story: US seizes op­er­a­tor ac­counts of a sub­sidi­ary of Mt. Gox

New LW Mee­tups: Bris­tol, Tel Aviv

Or­well and fic­tional ev­i­dence for dic­ta­tor­ship stability

Prob­lems with Academia and the Ris­ing Sea

Ran­dom re­sponses to sur­veys [refer­ence re­quest]

Max­i­miz­ing Fi­nan­cial Utility and Frugality

[LINK] Does Time Ex­ist? With Ju­lian Barbour

[link] Are All Dic­ta­tor Game Re­sults Ar­ti­facts?

Prepar­ing for a Ra­tional Fi­nan­cial Plan­ning Sequence

Po­ten­tial Im­pacts of Cli­mate Change

Meetup : Berkeley: To-do lists and other systems

[LINK] Soylent crowdfunding

Meetup : Mu­nich Meetup

[LINK]s: Who says Wat­son is only a nar­row AI?

Gen­eral in­tel­li­gence test: no do­mains of stupidity

Meetup : Fermi Es­ti­mates in Chicago

High yield in­for­ma­tion sources for Soft­ware Development

[TED Talk] Peter Singer on Effec­tive Altruism

Meetup : RTLW Meetup: Con­tra Dance!

Meetup : Buf­falo LW Thurs­day meetup

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