Meetup : West LA—Noth­ing in Particular

Weekly LW Meetups

Meetup : Com­fort Zone Ex­pan­sion out­ing—London

Less­wrong Philos­o­phy and Per­sonal Identity

Ra­tion­al­ist house­holds: What can Lon­don learn from its pre­de­ces­sors?

Meetup : Philadelphia—Hu­mans are not au­to­mat­i­cally strategic

Another Anki deck for Less Wrong content

Are ‘Ev­i­dence-based’ poli­cies dam­ag­ing poli­cy­mak­ing?

Sim­ple in­vest­ing for a com­plete be­gin­ner? (Just… de­vel­op­ing world in­dex funds?)

Use Your Iden­tity Carefully

Meetup : VA Cal­libra­tion/​Bi­ased games meetup

Meetup : Helsinki Meetup

Meetup : Durham NC/​Tri­an­gle Area: Cog­ni­tive Bi­ases and Where to Find Them + games!

Meetup : [Bos­ton] Es­ti­ma­tion Ex­per­i­ment & Discussion

Meetup : Durham/​RTLW HPMoR dis­cus­sion, ch. 82-85

[LINK] “Prevent­ing Hu­man Ex­tinc­tion” by Nick Beck­stead, Peter Singer, and Matt Wage

In­ter­nal and ex­ter­nal criticism

[LINK] Cochrane on Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Tor­ture vs Dust Specks Yet Again

[LINK] Slash­dot in­ter­view with David Et­tinger of the Cry­on­ics Institute

Open thread, Au­gust 19-25, 2013

En­gag­ing First In­tro­duc­tions to AI Risk

One way to ma­nipu­late your level of ab­strac­tion re­lated to a task

Effec­tive Altru­ist Job Board?

My daily re­flec­tion routine

The land­scape of al­tru­is­tic interventions

LW Melbourne: Re­port on Public Ra­tion­al­ity Lecture

Meetup : New Meetup: Ur­bana-Cham­paign, Illinois.

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Au­gust 16-31

Hu­mans are util­ity monsters

New LW Meetup: Saskatoon

High level cli­mate in­ter­ven­tion considerations

[LINK] Ra­dio in­ter­view with Daniel Kahneman

Meetup : Moscow: The Sun­day Meetup

Where I’ve Changed My Mind on My Ap­proach to Spec­u­la­tive Causes

Op­ti­miz­ing op­ti­miz­ing LessWrong

“Mind read­ing”—how is this done?

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 26, chap­ter 97

An illicit the­ory of costly signaling

Prac­ti­cal Limits to Giv­ing Now and The Haste Consideration

Meetup : Bratis­lava Meetup VI.

[LINK] EdTech startup hosts AI Hunger Games (cash prize $1k)

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC meetup: Robin Han­son vis­its again

[LINK] Ma­jor guide to supplements

En­gag­ing In­tel­lec­tual Elites at Less Wrong

Bets on an Ex­treme Future

Bi­ases of In­tu­itive and Log­i­cal Thinkers

Does Check­ers have sim­pler rules than Go?

[LINK] Hyper­loop offi­cially an­nounced — pre­dic­tions, any­one?

Course—Sav­ing Millions of lives at a time [link]