[LINK] Eng­ineer­ing Gen­eral In­tel­li­gence (the OpenCog/​CogPrime book)

Open thread, 11-17 Au­gust 2014

Meetup : The Psy­chol­ogy of Video Games

Eth­i­cal Choice un­der Uncertainty

Med­i­ta­tions on Löb’s the­o­rem and prob­a­bil­is­tic logic [LINK]

Every Paul needs a Jesus

Meetup : Cog­ni­tive Biases

Tarski’s truth sen­tences and MIRI’s AI

Why hu­mans suck: Rat­ings of per­son­al­ity con­di­tioned on looks, pro­file, and re­ported match

The great­est good for the great­est num­ber—start­ing soon­est, or end­ing last, or last­ing longest?

Weekly LW Meetups

What should a friendly AI do, in this situ­a­tion?

Roles are Mar­tial Arts for Agency

LW client-side com­ment improvements

MIRI’s 2014 Sum­mer Match­ing Challenge

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: In­tro to Con­fir­ma­tion Bias or “En­core” Sing­ing Game Meetup

Mul­ti­ple Fac­tor Ex­pla­na­tions Should Not Ap­pear One-Sided

Ground­work for AGI safety engineering

In­quiry into com­mu­nity standards

Moloch: op­ti­mi­sa­tion, “and” vs “or”, in­for­ma­tion, and sac­ri­fi­cial ems

The ra­tio­nal way to name rivers

Ar­ti­cle on con­fir­ma­tion bias for the Smith Alum­nae Quarterly

Meetup : Is­rael Less Wrong Meetup—So­cial, Board Games and FAI

Raven para­dox set­tled to my satisfaction

From Nat­u­ral (or Nat­u­ral­ized) to So­cial Epistemology

Six Plau­si­ble Meta-Eth­i­cal Alternatives

[LINK] “Harry Pot­ter And The Cryp­tocur­rency of Stars”

The dan­gers of dialectic

Why are peo­ple “put off by ra­tio­nal­ity”?

A Prag­matic Epistemology

Causal In­fer­ence Se­quence Part II: Graph­i­cal Models

Meetup : Fifth Buenos Aires LessWrong meetup

LINK-Robot apoc­a­lypse taken (some­what) seriously

Knigh­tian Uncer­tainty: Bayesian Agents and the MMEU rule

Open thread, Au­gust 4 − 10, 2014

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Au­gust 2014

Meetup : At­lanta—Fil­ter­ing Ideas

Meetup : Frank­furt Open Mic (Think­ing Fast and Slow, Hap­piness and Money,...)

MIRI 2014 Sum­mer Match­ing Challenge and one-off op­por­tu­nity to donate *for free*

Brag­ging Thread, Au­gust 2014

Meetup : Syd­ney Meetup—August

Me and M&Ms

Meetup : Bratislava

Meetup : Helsinki Book Blan­ket Meetup

Meetup : Perth, Aus­tralia: Sun­day lunch

Maybe we’re not doomed

Meetup : Moscow meet up

Model of un­los­ing agents

In­tu­itions and utilitarianism

Why the tails come apart