For Hap­piness, Keep a Grat­i­tude Journal

Open thread, July 16-22, 2013

Per­son­ally miti­gat­ing ex­is­ten­tial risk

Semi-open thread: blackmail

Meetup : Melbourne So­cial Meetup

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, July 16-31

Dul­ler black­mail definitions

Count­ess and Baron at­tempt to define black­mail, fail

Notes/​blog posts on two re­cent MIRI papers

Meetup : Bratis­lava Meetup V.

Writ­ing Style and the Typ­i­cal Mind Fallacy

To re­duce as­tro­nom­i­cal waste: take your time, then go very fast

Some high­lights from Nate Silver’s “The Sig­nal and the Noise”

Meetup : Lon­don So­cial—Direct Sun­light 2, Vi­tamin Booga­loo—July 21st

“Stupid” ques­tions thread

Weekly LW Meetups

Cos­mic ex­pan­sion vs up­loads eco­nomics?

[LINK] If cor­re­la­tion doesn’t im­ply cau­sa­tion, then what does?

Meetup : [Colum­bus] Up­com­ing Work­shop Topics

The WASH-1400 Re­ac­tor Safety Study

[META] Open threads (and repos­i­tory threads) are un­der­uti­lized.

Less Wrong Lon­don New Ar­rival In­te­gra­tion Task Force

Meetup : [Moscow] The Meet up

Seed Study: Polypha­sic Sleep in Ten Steps

Meetup : Durham/​RTLW HPMoR dis­cus­sion, ch. 77-78

Svante Ar­rhe­nius’s Pre­dic­tion of Cli­mate Change

[LINK] Hy­poth­e­sis about the mechanism for stor­ing long-term memory

Against easy su­per­in­tel­li­gence: the un­fore­seen fric­tion argument

The failure of counter-ar­gu­ments argument

Help please! Mak­ing a good choice be­tween two jobs

[LINK] XKCD Comic #1236, Seashells and Bayes’ Theorem

Meetup : Buf­falo LW—Bi­ased Boardgaming

Can we make Drake-like Fermi es­ti­mates of ex­pected dis­tance to the next planet with prim­i­tive, sen­tient or self-im­prov­ing life?

Effec­tive­ness or al­tru­ism?

Pri­soner’s dilemma tour­na­ment results

“Can we know what to do about AI?”: An Introduction

Where Are We the Weak­est?

Gaug­ing in­ter­est for a Zurich, Switzer­land meetup group

[LINK] Anal­y­sis of why ex­clud­ing hos­tile peo­ple is worth it

HPMoR the Youtube Series! But in need of advice

My Take on a De­ci­sion Theory

Four Fo­cus Areas of Effec­tive Altruism

Strate­gic Best­sel­ler: Tak­ing the Blog Path (4HS002)

Meetup : Za­greb LW meetup

Re­sponses to Catas­trophic AGI Risk: A Survey

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 23, chap­ter 94

Meetup : [Moscow] Week­day meet up

Ev­i­den­tial De­ci­sion The­ory, Selec­tion Bias, and Refer­ence Classes

Es­ti­mat­ing the kol­mogorov com­plex­ity of the known laws of physics?

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