De­cem­ber 2014 Monthly Brag­ging Thread

The new GiveWell recom­men­da­tions are out: here’s a sum­mary of the charities

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, De­cem­ber 1-15

The cry­op­reser­va­tion of bad people

In­te­gral ver­sus differ­en­tial ethics

[Need ad­vice] Likely con­se­quences of dis­clos­ing you have Asperger’s Syn­drome—given you have a 2.5 years gap in your re­sume?

Meetup : Lon­don So­cial Meetup, 07/​12/​2014

Open thread, Dec. 1 - Dec. 7, 2014

De­cem­ber 2014 Me­dia Thread

Meetup : Aus­tralia on­ling hangout

De­cem­ber 2014 Brag­ging Thread

I’m in a re­ally dark place right now, I think I need help.

Meetup : Mu­nich Meetup in December

Meetup : Bratislava

Utility in­differ­ence and in­finite im­prob­a­bil­ity drives

Meetup : Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—Ap­proaches, Con­spe­cific In­ter­ac­tions, Ar­gu­ments and Communications

Weekly LW Meetups

When the un­cer­tainty about the model is higher than the un­cer­tainty in the model

[Link] Will Su­per­in­tel­li­gent Machines De­stroy Hu­man­ity?

Is ar­gu­ing worth it? If so, when and when not? Also, how do I be­come less ar­ro­gant?

You have a set amount of “weird­ness points”. Spend them wisely.

My ex­pe­rience of the re­cent CFAR workshop

Meetup : War­saw De­cem­ber Meetup

Mis­di­ag­nosed Asperger’s syn­drome is ru­in­ing my life.

Why I will Win my Bet with Eliezer Yudkowsky

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Seek­ing advice

The Hos­tile Arguer

Meetup :

Stu­art Rus­sell: AI value al­ign­ment prob­lem must be an “in­trin­sic part” of the field’s main­stream agenda

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 11: The treach­er­ous turn

Re­quest for sug­ges­tions: age­ing and data-mining

Ex­pected value es­ti­mates you can take (some­what) literally

Pop­u­la­tion ethics and util­ity indifference

Open thread, Nov. 24 - Nov. 30, 2014

Shop for Char­ity: how to earn proven char­i­ties 5% of your Ama­zon spend­ing in commission

Unique­ness of UDT for trans­par­ent universes

Im­prov­ing the modal UDT op­ti­mal­ity result

Break­ing the vi­cious cycle

[Link] If we knew about all the ways an In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sion could go wrong, would we be able to avoid them?

More mar­bles and Sleep­ing Beauty

TV’s “Ele­men­tary” Tack­les Friendly AI and X-Risk—“Bella” (Pos­si­ble Spoilers)

Mus­ings on the LSAT: “Rea­son­ing Train­ing” and Neuroplasticity

Meetup : Utrecht: a cri­tique of effec­tive altruism

Meetup : Utrecht

Meetup : Utrecht: Ra­tion­al­ity Games

When should an Effec­tive Altru­ist be veg­e­tar­ian?

Link: xkcd 1450: AI-Box Experiment

Me­mory Im­prove­ment: Mnemon­ics, Tools, or Books on the Topic?

New LW Meetup: Glasgow

The Cat­e­gories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories