[Link] Eric S. Ray­mond—Me and Less Wrong

Weekly LW Meetups

[link] On the abun­dance of ex­trater­res­trial life af­ter the Ke­pler mission

Edit­ing meetups

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Brains

Could you be Prof Nick Bostrom’s side­kick?

Meetup : Toronto EA meetup

Meetup : LW Copen­hagen: De­cem­ber Meetup

Po­ten­tial vs already ex­is­tent peo­ple and aggregation

Where is the line be­tween be­ing a good child and tak­ing care of one­self?

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes De­cem­ber 2014

The Bay Area Solstice

Good things to have learned....

Au­ton­omy, util­ity, and de­sire; against con­se­quen­tial­ism in AI design

Link: LessWrong and AI risk men­tioned in a Busi­ness In­sider Article

A hy­po­thet­i­cal ques­tion for in­vestors

Meetup : De­cem­ber Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—On­line Com­mu­ni­ca­tion: Con­vey­ing Ideas Effectively

Meetup : Can­berra: End of year party

Meetup : Moscow Meetup: CBT is back

Model-free decisions

[LINK] Steven Hawk­ing warns of the dan­gers of AI

Link: Biotech Cor­po­rate Email Hacked

[link] The Philos­o­phy of In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sions and Ad­vanced Robotics

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 12: Mal­ig­nant failure modes

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