Pre­dic­tion challenge: Zika and birth rates

Weekly LW Meetups

Vir­tual mod­els of vir­tual AIs in vir­tual worlds

Meetup : Less Wrong NH Meetup

After Go, what games should be next for Deep­Mind?

True an­swers from AI: Summary

True an­swers from AI: Summary

Meetup : Moscow meetup: Aris­to­tle pro­ject, refer­ence class prac­tice, or­der team meeting

True an­swers from AI: “Mirac­u­lous” hypotheses

Astro­biol­ogy, Astron­omy, and the Fermi Para­dox II: Space & Time Revisited

Ra­tion­al­ity Read­ing Group: Part V: Value Theory

AlphaGo ver­sus Lee Sedol

Two su­per-in­tel­li­gences (evolu­tion and sci­ence) already ex­ist: what could we learn from them in terms of AI’s fu­ture and safety?

Cross-Cul­tural maps and Asch’s Con­for­mity Experiment

Pur­pose­ful Anti-Rush

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Fun & Games

Would you no­tice if sci­ence died?

Meetup : Ann Ar­bor Meetup—Meditation

Many Wor­lds against Si­mu­la­tion?

Cul­ti­vate the de­sire to X

Open Thread March 7 - March 13, 2016

Outreach Thread

What is the fu­ture of nootropic drugs? Why can’t there be ones more effec­tive than ones that have ex­isted for 15+ years?

Prefer­ence over preference

Up­dat­ing to­wards the simu­la­tion hy­poth­e­sis be­cause you think about AI

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Thread March 2016

In­formed over­sight through an en­tropy-max­i­miza­tion objective

On Mak­ing Things

What does it mean for cor­rect op­er­a­tion to rely on trans­fer learn­ing?

AIFoom De­bate—con­clu­sion?

Weekly LW Meetups

Ed­u­ca­tion as En­ter­tain­ment and the Down­fall of LessWrong

Meetup : Lon­don ra­tio­nal­ish meetup − 2016-03-06

Meetup : Syd­ney pub meetup

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Projects

Black box knowledge

Ra­tional diet: Eat­ing in­sects?

Cor­rigi­bil­ity and in­ter­rupt­ibil­ity for var­i­ous agents

Ra­tion­al­ity 101 - how would you in­tro­duce a per­son to the ra­tio­nal­ist con­cepts? What are the best top­ics to learn/​ex­plain first?

[pa­per] [link] Defin­ing hu­man val­ues for value learners

World-mod­els con­tain­ing self-models

Pro­cras­ti­na­tion checklist

Meetup : LW Melb Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo, March: A deep dive into Effec­tive Altruism

AI as a re­s­olu­tion to the Fermi Para­dox.

Re­quest for ad­vice: high school transferring

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: De­sign­ing Games

March 2016 Me­dia Thread

The map of nan­otech global catas­trophic risks

I’m plan­ning a ra­tio­nal­ist tech­nique-demon­strat­ing se­quel to HPMOR. I know about the Virtue of Silence. Are there any skills I should leave out?

Meetup : San An­to­nio Meetup