Open Thread March 21 - March 27, 2016

Com­mon Mis­con­cep­tions about Dual Pro­cess The­o­ries of Hu­man Reasoning

The in­creas­ing use­less­ness of Promoted

Less­wrong Po­ten­tial Changes

Weekly LW Meetups

Ge­netic “Na­ture” is cul­tural too

How It Feels to Im­prove My Rationality

Con­jec­ture on Ad­dic­tion to Meta-level Solutions

Meetup : Games in Kocherga club: Fal­la­cyMa­nia, Tower of Chaos, Train­ing game

Meetup : MelbLW So­cial Meetup: Mar 2016

Link: Ev­i­dence-Based Medicine Has Been Hijacked

Meetup : Lon­don ra­tio­nal­ish meetup − 2016-03-20

How I in­fil­trated the Raëli­ans (and was hugged by their leader)

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Board Games

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Game Theory

News­jack­ing for Ra­tion­al­ity and Effec­tive Altruism

Meetup : Ra­tion­al­ity Vienna Meetup

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Group Debugging

Open thread, Mar. 14 - Mar. 20, 2016

The Thy­roid Mad­ness : Core Ar­gu­ment, Ev­i­dence, Prob­a­bil­ities and Predictions

Look for Lone Cor­rect Contrarians

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?