Teach­ing a short class on Bayes’ The­o­rem?

[Link] A Short Film based on Eliezer Yud­kowsky’s AI Box experiment

Map­ping Fun The­ory onto the challenges of eth­i­cal foie gras

CEV-in­spired models

[SEQ RERUN] Lonely Dissent

Beyond the Reach of God, Abridged for Spo­ken Word

[Link] Us­ing the con­junc­tion fal­lacy to re­veal im­plicit associations

[Link] How to Dispel Your Illu­sions

[Link] How doc­tors die

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[SEQ RERUN] On Ex­press­ing Your Concerns

Utili­tar­i­anism- WBE (up­load­ing) > FAI

[SEQ RERUN] Asch’s Con­for­mity Experiment

Seek­ing Col­lab­o­ra­tor for a Sin­gu­lar­ity Comic Book

2011 Sur­vey Results

How is your mind differ­ent from ev­ery­one else’s?

Richard Car­rier on the Singularity

Draw­ing Less Wrong: Tech­ni­cal Skill

[LINK] How a Com­puter Game is Rein­vent­ing the Science of Ex­per­tise

On “Friendly” Immortality

Read­ing Math: Pearl, Causal Bayes Nets, and Func­tional Causal Models

Larry King: I want to be frozen

K-com­plex­ity of ev­ery­day things

Fun­nel plots: the study that didn’t bark, or, vi­su­al­iz­ing re­gres­sion to the null

“Vuln­er­a­ble Cy­borgs: Learn­ing to Live with our Dragons”, Mark Coeckelbergh

Russ Roberts and Gary Taubes on con­fir­ma­tion bias [pod­cast]

[SEQ RERUN] The Amaz­ing Vir­gin Pregnancy

Why study the cog­ni­tive sci­ence of con­cepts?

In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sion anal­y­sis draft #2: snip­pet 1

[LINK] Fermi Para­dox pa­per touch­ing on FAI

[Link] How Should Ra­tion­al­ists Ap­proach Death? (Skep­ti­con 4)

Why safe Or­a­cle AI is eas­ier than safe gen­eral AI, in a nutshell

Meetup : Melbourne so­cial meetup

Scooby Doo and Sec­u­lar Hu­man­ism [link]

[SEQ RERUN] Zen and the Art of Rationality

Does Hyper­bolic Dis­count­ing Really Ex­ist?

“Ray Kurzweil and Upload­ing: Just Say No!”, Nick Agar

Good in­ter­view with Kah­ne­man [link]

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Oakville ON, At­lanta, Berkeley, Melbourne, London

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes De­cem­ber 2011

An­nounc­ing the Quan­tified Health Prize

[SEQ RERUN] Effortless Technique

Prob­a­bil­ity puz­zle: Coins in envelopes

[LINK] New ex­per­i­ment ob­serves macro­scopic quan­tum entaglement

The Gift We Give To­mor­row, Spo­ken Word [Finished?]

Google AI challenge—sta­tus?

On­line Course in Ev­i­dence-Based Medicine

5 Ax­ioms of De­ci­sion Making

Open Thread: De­cem­ber 2011

Meetup : Seat­tle biweekly meetup: prob­lem solving