Bay Area Events Roundup

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Jul 2010 6:04 UTC
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Con­trived in­finite-tor­ture sce­nar­ios: July 2010

PlaidX23 Jul 2010 23:54 UTC
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Against the stan­dard nar­ra­tive of hu­man sex­ual evolution

WrongBot23 Jul 2010 5:28 UTC
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Public Choice and the Altru­ist’s Burden

Roko22 Jul 2010 21:34 UTC
35 points
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Sim­plified Hu­man­ism, Pos­i­tive Fu­tur­ism & How to Prevent the Uni­verse From Be­ing Turned Into Paper Clips

Kevin22 Jul 2010 10:03 UTC
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Book Re­view: The Root of Thought

Scott Alexander22 Jul 2010 8:58 UTC
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Missed op­por­tu­ni­ties for do­ing well by do­ing good

multifoliaterose21 Jul 2010 7:45 UTC
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Float­ing Fes­ti­val Jul 22-25

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Jul 2010 6:36 UTC
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A spec­u­la­tion on Near and Far Modes

MichaelVassar21 Jul 2010 6:24 UTC
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(One rea­son) why cap­i­tal­ism is much maligned

multifoliaterose19 Jul 2010 3:48 UTC
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Poli­ti­ci­ans stymie hu­man coloniza­tion of space to save make-work jobs

Roko18 Jul 2010 12:57 UTC
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Fight Zero-Sum Bias

multifoliaterose18 Jul 2010 5:57 UTC
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Is cry­on­i­cists’ self­ish­ness dis­tance in­duced?

KatjaGrace17 Jul 2010 18:40 UTC
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Book Club Up­date, Chap­ter 3 of Prob­a­bil­ity Theory

Morendil16 Jul 2010 8:25 UTC
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Chicago/​Madi­son Meetup

steven046115 Jul 2010 23:30 UTC
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Fi­nan­cial in­cen­tives don’t get rid of bias? Prize for best an­swer.

Roko15 Jul 2010 13:24 UTC
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So You Think You’re a Bayesian? The Nat­u­ral Mode of Prob­a­bil­is­tic Reasoning

Matt_Simpson14 Jul 2010 16:51 UTC
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The In­stru­men­tal Value of Your Own Time

Mass_Driver14 Jul 2010 7:57 UTC
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Room for rent in North Berkeley house

Kevin13 Jul 2010 20:28 UTC
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Some Thoughts Are Too Danger­ous For Brains to Think

WrongBot13 Jul 2010 4:44 UTC
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MIRI Call for Volunteers

alyssavance12 Jul 2010 23:49 UTC
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The Pres­i­dent’s Coun­cil of Ad­vi­sors on Science and Tech­nol­ogy is so­lic­it­ing ideas

Kevin12 Jul 2010 23:41 UTC
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The red pa­per­clip the­ory of status

12 Jul 2010 23:08 UTC
57 points
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A Ra­tional Identity

Kaj_Sotala12 Jul 2010 22:59 UTC
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What In­tel­li­gence Tests Miss: The psy­chol­ogy of ra­tio­nal thought

Kaj_Sotala11 Jul 2010 23:01 UTC
52 points
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Open Thread: July 2010, Part 2

Alicorn9 Jul 2010 6:54 UTC
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How Ir­ra­tional­ity Can Win: The Power of Group Cohesion

alyssavance9 Jul 2010 6:15 UTC
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A Tax­on­omy of Bias: Mind­ware Problems

Kaj_Sotala7 Jul 2010 21:53 UTC
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July 2010 South­ern Cal­ifor­nia Meetup

JenniferRM7 Jul 2010 19:54 UTC
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A pro­posal for a cryo­genic grave for cryonics

Roko6 Jul 2010 19:01 UTC
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As­sum­ing Nails

Psychohistorian5 Jul 2010 22:26 UTC
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Cry­on­ics Wants To Be Big

lsparrish5 Jul 2010 7:50 UTC
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A Tax­on­omy of Bias: The Cog­ni­tive Miser

Kaj_Sotala2 Jul 2010 18:38 UTC
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Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes: July 2010

komponisto1 Jul 2010 21:24 UTC
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Open Thread: July 2010

komponisto1 Jul 2010 21:20 UTC
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What Cost for Ir­ra­tional­ity?

Kaj_Sotala1 Jul 2010 18:25 UTC
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Ap­plied Bayes’ The­o­rem: Read­ing People

Kaj_Sotala30 Jun 2010 17:21 UTC
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A Challenge for LessWrong

simplicio29 Jun 2010 23:47 UTC
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Book Club Up­date, Chap­ter 2 of Prob­a­bil­ity Theory

Morendil29 Jun 2010 0:46 UTC
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Un­known knowns: Why did you choose to be monog­a­mous?

WrongBot26 Jun 2010 2:50 UTC
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MWI, copies and probability

Roko25 Jun 2010 16:46 UTC
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Spaced Rep­e­ti­tion Database for the Mys­te­ri­ous An­swers to Mys­te­ri­ous Ques­tions Sequence

divia25 Jun 2010 1:08 UTC
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Is cry­on­ics nec­es­sary?: Writ­ing your­self into the future

Gordon Seidoh Worley23 Jun 2010 14:33 UTC
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A Ra­tional Education

wedrifid23 Jun 2010 5:48 UTC
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Poll: What value ex­tra copies?

Roko22 Jun 2010 12:15 UTC
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Ra­tion­al­ity & Crim­i­nal Law: Some Questions

simplicio20 Jun 2010 7:42 UTC
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Ap­ply­ing Be­hav­ioral Psy­chol­ogy on Myself

John_Maxwell20 Jun 2010 6:25 UTC
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What if AI doesn’t quite go FOOM?

Mass_Driver20 Jun 2010 0:03 UTC
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Defeat­ing Ugh Fields In Practice

Psychohistorian19 Jun 2010 19:37 UTC
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Sur­face syl­l­o­gisms and the sin-based model of causation

PhilGoetz19 Jun 2010 16:40 UTC
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