Dr_Manhattan

NES-game play­ing AI [video link and AI-box­ing-re­lated com­ment]

Eliezer’s YU lec­ture on FAI and MOR [link]

In­ter­est­ing dis­cus­sion of con­cen­tra­tion and pro­duc­tivity [link]

CFAR’s Inau­gu­ral Fundrais­ing Drive

Pop­u­lar me­dia cov­er­age of Sin­gu­lar­ity Sum­mit -the Verge [link]

Judea Pearl’s Tur­ing Award Lec­ture video now online

Luke’ AMA gets a plug @ Wired [link]

Opinions on Boltz­mann brain ar­gu­ments con­strain­ing mod­ern mul­ti­verse theories

Rus­sian plan for im­mor­tal­ity [link]

SIAI May report

Ar­ri­son, Vas­sar and de Grey speak­ing at Peter Thiel’s startup class [link]

Se­bas­tian Thrun AMA on red­dit [link]

MIT is work­ing on in­dus­trial robots that (at­tempt to) learn what hu­mans want from them [link]

Peter Thiel’s AGI dis­cus­sion in his star­tups class @ Stan­ford [link]

Au­dio in­ter­view with Judea Pearl [link]

“Big Sur­prise”—the fa­mous athe­ists are ac­tu­ally Bayesi­ans [link]

Sin­gu­lar­ity-ori­ented Sci-Fi col­lec­tion to be pub­lished [link]

Model Think­ing class [link]

Top 5 re­grets of the dy­ing [link]

Bill Gates asks HS stu­dents “What are most im­por­tant choices the world faces”?