June 2013 Me­dia Thread

Two Weeks of Med­i­ta­tion can Re­duce Mind Wan­der­ing and Im­prove Men­tal Perfor­mance.

A dis­claimer about my effec­tive philan­thropy posts (in con­nec­tion with as­tro­nom­i­cal waste)

Jaan Tal­linn: A Skype founder on biomon­i­tors, ex­is­ten­tial risk and simu­lated realities

A World War I ex­am­ple show­ing the dan­ger of de­ceiv­ing your own side

Will the world’s elites nav­i­gate the cre­ation of AI just fine?

[link] Join Wall Street. Save the World

Great big ocean waves in an even big­ger blank spot

Weekly LW Meetups

Op­ti­miz­ing for attractiveness

Meetup : [Moscow] Ra­tional choice

Cur­ricu­lum sug­ges­tions for some­one look­ing to teach them­selves con­tem­po­rary philosophy

The Paucity of Elites Online

“dis­fluency” research

Meetup : Brus­sels meetup with Cat

Meetup : LW Vienna Meetup #3

does imag­in­ing +sin­gu­lar­ity cause de­pres­sion?

Find­ing in­ter­est­ing communities

Meetup :

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

The Ra­tional In­vestor, Part I

To be­come more ra­tio­nal, rinse your left ear with cold water

Stats Ad­vice on a New N-back Game

Meetup : [Bos­ton] The Science Of Happiness

[LINK] SMBC on hu­man and alien values

Who thinks quan­tum com­put­ing will be nec­es­sary for AI?

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

Meetup : Lon­don—Inau­gu­ral Prac­ti­cal Ses­sion—June 9th

Re­quest­ing ad­vice: Do­ing Episte­mol­ogy Right (Warn­ing: Ab­stract main­stream Philos­o­phy herein)

Meetup : Berkeley: The Mo­ti­va­tion Hacker by Nick Winter

Tran­shu­man­ist Fables

[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