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

Bayes Academy Devel­op­ment Re­port 2 - im­proved data visualization

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 16: Tool AIs

Munchk­in­ing for Fun and Profit, Ideas, Ex­pe­rience, Suc­cesses, Failures

Fac­tor­ing cost-effectiveness

Open thread, Dec. 8 - Dec. 15, 2014

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

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 15: Or­a­cles, ge­nies and sovereigns

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

Life­hack Ideas De­cem­ber 2014

Let­ting it go: when you shouldn’t re­spond to some­one who is wrong

The buildup to Jaynes?

How to deal with Santa Claus?

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes De­cem­ber 2014

[Re­solved] Is the SIA dooms­day ar­gu­ment wrong?

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

Method­ol­ogy for pre­dict­ing speed dat­ing par­ti­ci­pants’ decisions

LINK: TED-Ed video on death and cryonics

SciAm ar­ti­cle about ra­tio­nal­ity cor­re­spond­ing only weakly with IQ

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

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 14: Mo­ti­va­tion se­lec­tion methods

Sugges­tions for 31C3 (Chaos Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Congress)

An in­vest­ment anal­ogy for Pas­cal’s Mugging

Edit­ing meetups

The Limits of My Rationality

A bit of word-dis­solv­ing in poli­ti­cal discussion

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

2015 New Years Re­s­olu­tion Thread

How is the world differ­ent if I make a dona­tion?

Robin Han­son talk­ing about Bias on Stos­sel tonight

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

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

Ve­loc­ity of be­hav­ioral evolution

How many peo­ple am I?

Open thread, Dec. 22 - Dec. 28, 2014

[Link] The Dom­i­nant Life Form In the Cos­mos Is Prob­a­bly Su­per­in­tel­li­gent Robots

Po­ten­tial vs already ex­is­tent peo­ple and aggregation

In­ter­est­ing (or semi-in­ter­est­ing) part time jobs?

Cog­ni­tive dis­tor­tions of founders

Open thread, Dec. 29, 2014 - Jan 04, 2015

De­cem­ber 2014 Me­dia Thread

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, De­cem­ber 16-31

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, De­cem­ber 1-15

Model-free decisions

“in­com­pa­rable” out­comes—mul­ti­ple util­ity func­tions?

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

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

Weekly LW Meetups

Meetup : Aus­tralia on­ling hangout

Linked de­ci­sions an a “nice” solu­tion for the Fermi paradox