[LINK] Bets do not (nec­es­sar­ily) re­veal beliefs

The Cen­tre for Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity: a year later from a (some­what) out­side per­spec­tive

Meetup : Melbourne, so­cial meetup: 31 May 2013 07:00PM

A Pro­posed Ad­just­ment to the Astro­nom­i­cal Waste Argument

Meetup : At­lanta LessWrong June Meetup: Effec­tive Altruism

Re­search is polyg­a­mous! The im­por­tance of what you do needn’t be pro­por­tional to your awe­some­ness

Meetup : Melbourne, prac­ti­cal rationality

[LINK] Sign up for DAGGRE to im­prove sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy forecasting

Ev­i­dence and coun­terex­am­ple to pos­i­tive relevance

...so did we now get cold fu­sion to work or what?

Col­lect­ing ex­pres­sions of in­ter­est in a ra­tio­nal­ity con­fer­ence in August

Be a lit­tle bit more trust­ing than most peo­ple think sensible

Math­e­mat­i­ci­ans and the Preven­tion of Recessions

Be­ing For­eign and Be­ing Sane

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