Con­sider the Most Im­por­tant Facts

Iter­ated Pri­soner’s Dilemma in soft­ware patents

Daily Sched­ules in Com­bat­ing Akra­sia

Re­sources from the Bos­ton Megameetup

Open thread, July 23-29, 2013

Su­per­ra­tional­ity and net­work flow control

Notes on “The Limits to Growth” and sur­round­ing material

Choose that which is most im­por­tant to you

[Link] Spar­rows may be vuln­er­a­ble to sunk-cost-like effects

In­tro­duc­ing Effec­tive Fundrais­ing, a New EA Org

[Link] Eliezer, PZ, Brin, and me on Immortality

Meetup : Melbourne, prac­ti­cal rationality

The Do­main of Politics

Test Post

How To Con­struct a Poli­ti­cal Ideology

[Link] In­tel­li­gence, a ther­mo­dy­namic POV

[Link] Cos­molog­i­cal In­fancy

Meetup : Helsinki So­cial Meetup

Nor­bert Wiener’s pa­per “Some Mo­ral and Tech­ni­cal Con­se­quences of Au­toma­tion”

Meetup : Za­greb meetup—July 27th

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC Mega­metup de­briefing/​plan­ning meetup

Even with de­fault points, sys­tems re­main exploitable

New LW Meetup: Zagreb

Con­sump­tion Smooth­ing and He­donic Adaptation

[Link] My talk about the Future

Meetup : Melbourne Ex­cur­sion: Com­fort Zone Expansion

Meetup : Durham NC/​Tri­an­gle Area: Value of In­for­ma­tion/​Curiosity

Ap­plied Bayes’ The­o­rem: Calcu­lat­ing the prob­a­bil­ity that she’s over me. Could some­body check my work? TT_TT

Meetup : At­lanta Less­wrong: The Math of Bayes’ Theorem

Does an­chor­ing on dead­lines cause pro­cras­ti­na­tion?

The idiot sa­vant AI isn’t an idiot

Valuable eco­nomics knowl­edge available, iron­i­cally, for free

Meetup : Cinc­in­nati: Fi­nan­cial optimisation

In­stru­men­tal ra­tio­nal­ity/​self help re­sources

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 24, chap­ter 95

Model Com­bi­na­tion and Adjustment

See Eliezer talk with PZ My­ers and David Brin (and me) about im­mor­tal­ity this Sunday

Three Ap­proaches to “Friendli­ness”

Meetup : Durham NC/​Tri­an­gle Area: Ra­tion­al­ity Check­list Workshop

Meetup : West LA Meetup—The Great­est Good for the Great­est Number

One is­sue: teach 10 or sway 200?

An un­usual counterargument

HIKE: A Group Dy­nam­ics Case Study

Com­par­a­tive and ab­solute ad­van­tage in AI

An At­tempt at Prefer­ence Uncer­tainty Us­ing VNM

Meetup : South­east Michigan

Akra­sia Tac­tics Re­view 2: The Akra­sia Strikes Back

Re­cent MIRI work­shop re­sults?

For Hap­piness, Keep a Grat­i­tude Journal

Open thread, July 16-22, 2013