[Short, Meta] Should open threads be more fre­quent?

An ex­pla­na­tion of the ‘Many In­ter­act­ing Wor­lds’ the­ory of quan­tum me­chan­ics (by Sean Car­roll and Chip Sebens)

Bayes Academy Devel­op­ment Re­port 2 - im­proved data visualization

Ra­tion­al­ity Jokes Thread

Meetup : Moscow Meetup: biol­ogy, CBT and some­thing mysterious

(Very Short) PSA: Com­bined Main and Dis­cus­sion Feed

How many words do we have and how many dis­tinct con­cepts do we have?

Giv­ing What We Can—New Year drive

En­tropy and Temperature

Un­der­stand­ing Agency

Us­ing ma­chine learn­ing to pre­dict ro­man­tic com­pat­i­bil­ity: em­piri­cal results

“in­com­pa­rable” out­comes—mul­ti­ple util­ity func­tions?

New pa­per from MIRI: “Toward ideal­ized de­ci­sion the­ory”

Meetup : Sandy, UT—Debugging

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 14: Mo­ti­va­tion se­lec­tion methods

Kick­start­ing the au­dio ver­sion of the up­com­ing book “The Se­quences”

Meetup : Lon­don So­cial Meetup, 21/​12/​2014

How many peo­ple am I?

Has LessWrong Ever Back­fired On You?

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, De­cem­ber 16-31

Wel­come to Less Wrong! (7th thread, De­cem­ber 2014)

Open thread, Dec. 15 - Dec. 21, 2014

Pod­cast: Ra­tion­al­ists in Tech

Dis­cus­sion of AI con­trol over at wor­ld­build­ing.stack­ex­change [LINK]

De­bunked And Well-Refuted

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Finish­ing Up

[Re­solved] Is the SIA dooms­day ar­gu­ment wrong?

A fo­rum for re­searchers to pub­li­cly dis­cuss safety is­sues in ad­vanced AI

Ap­proval-di­rected agents

Harper’s Magaz­ine ar­ti­cle on LW/​MIRI/​CFAR and Ethereum

Weekly LW Meetups

Be­ware The Man Of One Study

Robin Han­son talk­ing about Bias on Stos­sel tonight

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Tet­lock’s “Ex­pert Poli­ti­cal Judg­ment”

What Peter Thiel thinks about AI risk

Meetup : Saint-Peters­burg Meetup

Make your own cost-effec­tive­ness Fermi es­ti­mates for one-off problems

Es­ti­mat­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of research

[link] Etz­ioni: AI will em­power us, not ex­ter­mi­nate us

Cog­ni­tive dis­tor­tions of founders

Meetup : At­lanta De­cem­ber Meetup—Game Night!

Life­hack Ideas De­cem­ber 2014

The Limits of My Rationality

Feed­back re­quested by In­ten­tional In­sights on work­book con­vey­ing ra­tio­nal think­ing about mean­ing and pur­pose to a broad audience

Meetup : Is­rael Less Wrong Meetup—So­cial and Board Games

Does util­i­tar­i­anism “re­quire” ex­treme self sac­ri­fice? If not why do peo­ple com­monly say it does?

An in­vest­ment anal­ogy for Pas­cal’s Mugging

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 13: Ca­pa­bil­ity con­trol methods

Stupid Ques­tions De­cem­ber 2014

[Link] An ex­act map­ping be­tween the Vari­a­tional Renor­mal­iza­tion Group and Deep Learn­ing]