Some reser­va­tions about Singer’s child-in-the-pond argument

Ini­tial Thoughts on Per­son­ally Find­ing a High-Im­pact Career

Giv­ing Now Cur­rently Seems to Beat Giv­ing Later

Meetup : Durham: Lu­minos­ity followup

A Key­ne­sian key in­sight

X-Risk Roll Call

Why do the­ists, un­der­grads, and Less Wrongers fa­vor one-box­ing on New­comb?

Is our con­tinued ex­is­tence ev­i­dence that Mu­tu­ally As­sured Destruc­tion worked?

Learn­ing pro­gram­ming: so I’ve learned the ba­sics of Python, what next?

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, June 1-30

Meetup : [Moscow] How to use your brain

Quotes and Notes on Scott Aaron­son’s “The Ghost in the Quan­tum Tur­ing Ma­chine”

[video] “Tran­shu­man”, fea­tur­ing Sand­berg and Bostrom

On ma­nipu­lat­ing others

The Clas­sic Liter­a­ture Workshop

Meetup : Melbourne Win­ter Sols­tice Din­ner Party and So­cial Meetup

Open Thread, June 16-30, 2013

Nor­ma­tive un­cer­tainty in New­comb’s problem

How to Write Deep Characters

[LINK] The Point of Life is the Ex­plo­sion of Ex­pe­rience Into Ideas

Elites and AI: Stated Opinions

[META] LW bug: Pri­vate drafts are pub­li­cly viewable

Ra­tion­al­ity wit­ti­cisms suit­able for t-shirts or bumper stickers

Meetup : CFAR vis­its Salt Lake City

Meetup : Brus­sels meetup with HEALES

[LINK] The Selected Papers Network

The Virtue of Silence

Meetup : West LA Meetup—Eliezer and Nick Share a Cab...

How should Eliezer and Nick’s ex­tra $20 be split

Weekly LW Meetups

Can we dodge the mind­kil­ler?

Near-Term Risk: Killer Robots a Threat to Free­dom and Democracy

[Link] Con­crete steps are be­ing taken to­wards futarchy

After crit­i­cal event W hap­pens, they still won’t be­lieve you

Coursera Public Speak­ing Course—LW Study Group?

Coursera Public Speak­ing Course—LW Study Group?

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC pro­jects plan­ning meetup

Do Earths with slower eco­nomic growth have a bet­ter chance at FAI?

Effec­tive Altru­ism Through Ad­ver­tis­ing Vege­tar­i­anism?

Meetup : Berkeley: Hy­po­thet­i­cal Apostasy

Char­ity Effec­tive­ness and Third-World Economics

An­ders, wine and enhancements

Meetup : [Bos­ton] The Psy­chol­ogy of Marketing

All-pay auc­tion for char­ity?

Teg­mark’s talk at Oxford

How can I strate­gi­cally write a com­plex best­sel­ler? (4HS001)

Life hack re­quest: I want to want to work.

Meetup : Lon­don So­cial—Ex­po­sure to Direct Sun­light—June 23rd

Syd­ney meetup?

Chang­ing Sys­tems is Differ­ent than Run­ning Con­trol­led Ex­per­i­ments—Don’t Choose How to Run Your Coun­try That Way!