Po­ten­tial Im­pacts of Cli­mate Change

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

Avoid­ing the emer­gency room

Mo­ral­ity should be Moral

Open Thread: how do you look for in­for­ma­tion?

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

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes May 2013

Crash prob­lems for to­tal futarchy

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

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

Is a pa­per­clip­per bet­ter than noth­ing?

[LINK] Soylent crowdfunding

Who thinks quan­tum com­put­ing will be nec­es­sary for AI?

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

Ad­just­ing Effort to Barely Meet Standards

Is there any way to avoid Post Nar­cis­sism? [with Video link]

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

Meetup : RTLW Meetup: Con­tra Dance!

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, May 16-31

[SEQ RERUN] Go Forth and Create the Art

[SEQ RERUN] My Way

Meetup : Lon­don Spe­cial Guests: Jaan Tal­linn and Michael Vas­sar of Me­taMed

Meetup : Visit­ing Swe­den and Switzer­land! Let’s get together

[LINK] An­tibiotic seem­ingly im­proves de­ci­sion-mak­ing in the pres­ence of at­trac­tive women.

Meetup : LessWrong Ottawa

Meetup : Seat­tle-Van­cou­ver Kilomeetup

Meetup : First Bris­tol meetup

Meetup : Berkeley: To-do lists and other systems

Stats Ad­vice on a New N-back Game

[SEQ RERUN] Bayesi­ans vs. Barbarians

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, May 1-15

[SEQ RERUN] The Sin of Underconfidence

Open Thread, May 1-14, 2013

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

[SEQ RERUN] Col­lec­tive Apa­thy and the Internet

Ran­dom re­sponses to sur­veys [refer­ence re­quest]

[SEQ RERUN] Fi­nal Words

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

Meetup : Lon­don Meetup − 26th May

[SEQ RERUN] Of Gen­der and Rationality

The Un­selfish Trol­ley Problem

Open thread, May 17-31 2013

Meetup : [Cam­bridge] How To Do Everything

[LINK] SMBC on hu­man and alien values

Megameetup An­nounce­ment: Bos­ton, July 13-14

[SEQ RERUN] Well-Kept Gar­dens Die By Pacifism

May 2013 Me­dia Thread

Health/​Longevity Link List

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

Meetup : Helsinki meetup with CatM (CFAR in­struc­tor) as spe­cial guest star