Out­side View(s) and MIRI’s FAI Endgame

[LINK] - Aaron Sell (Psy­chol­ogy To­day) on the Poli­ti­ci­sa­tion of Science

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 27, chap­ter 98

Yet more “stupid” questions

Open Thread: How much strate­gic think­ing have you done re­cently?

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Meetup : Melbourne Prac­ti­cal Ra­tion­al­ity: Group Pre­dic­tion Cal­ibra­tion and Au­mann’s Agree­ment Theorem

What should a col­lege stu­dent do to max­i­mize fu­ture earn­ings for effec­tive al­tru­ism?

Meetup : Ari­zona State Lunch Group

Meetup : New Meetup: Boulder CO

How I Am Productive

Meetup : Saska­toon Meetup: Value of Information

Open thread, Au­gust 26 - Septem­ber 1, 2013

Two an­gles on Repet­i­tive Strain Injury

How sure are you that brain em­u­la­tions would be con­scious?

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign, Illinois

[LINK] At­ten­tion Schema The­ory of Consciousness

Real­ity is weirdly normal

To what de­gree do you model peo­ple as agents?

Trans­parency in safety-crit­i­cal systems

The 50 Shades of Grey Book Club

Ob­vi­ous points

How Effi­cient is the Char­i­ta­ble Mar­ket?

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