Septem­ber 2014 Me­dia Thread

Open thread, Sept. 1-7, 2014

[link] Large So­cial Net­works can be Tar­geted for Viral Mar­ket­ing with Small Seed Sets

To­day’s Ex­trem­ist “Rad­i­cal” Pro­fes­sors vs the Old “Red In­tel­lec­tu­als”

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Prac­ti­cal Rationality

Tips for writ­ing philo­soph­i­cal texts

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence read­ing group

An­nounce­ment: Su­per­in­tel­li­gence read­ing group

Meetup : Utrecht: Cli­mate Change

Meetup : Utrecht: Ar­tifi­cial Intelligence

Meetup : Utrecht: Effec­tive Altru­ism and Politics

Robin Han­son’s “Over­com­ing Bias” posts as an e-book.

Why ap­pear­ance mat­ters or “to be­have as if”

Meetup : Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—Habits

Sols­tice 2014 /​ Ra­tional Ri­tual Re­treat—A Call to Arms

[LINK] Ar­ti­cle in the Guardian about CSER, men­tions MIRI and pa­per­clip AI

Meetup Re­port Thread: Septem­ber 2014

LessWrong Ham­burg Meetup Notes—Diet

Meetup : Michi­gan Meetup

Fund­ing can­ni­bal­ism mo­ti­vates con­cern for overheads

[ques­tion] Recom­men­da­tions for fasting

Con­ver­sa­tion with Paul Chris­ti­ano on Cause Pri­ori­ti­za­tion Research

The Great Filter is early, or AI is hard

Weekly LW Meetups

Meetup : Bratislava

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: CFAR Re­lated Dis­cus­sion (Park­our Post­poned)

Meetup : West LA Meetup: Light­ning Talks

Cal­ibrat­ing your prob­a­bil­ity es­ti­mates of world events: Rus­sia vs Ukraine, 6 months later.

Hal Fin­ney has just died.

Ra­tion­al­ist house

Meetup : Lon­don Meetup—Effec­tive Altruism

Meetup : Reg­u­lar Moscow Meetup

Meetup : Can­berra: Akra­sia-busters!

[LINK] Could a Quan­tum Com­puter Have Sub­jec­tive Ex­pe­rience?

Re­v­erse en­g­ineer­ing of be­lief structures

Changes to my workflow

Meetup : At­lanta Au­gust meetup—Me­dia representations

Knigh­tian un­cer­tainty: a re­jec­tion of the MMEU rule

The im­me­di­ate real-world uses of Friendly AI research

Per­sis­tent Idealism

Open thread, 25-31 Au­gust 2014

An­nounc­ing The Effec­tive Altru­ism Forum

Meetup : Any one in­ter­ested in Milwau­kee meetup?

[Link] Feyn­man lec­tures on physics

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Reconstituting

Study: In giv­ing char­ity, let not your right hand...

[LINK] Physi­cist Carlo Rovelli on Modern Physics Research

Weekly LW Meetups

Con­ser­va­tion of Ex­pected Jury Probability

Me­mory is Every­thing