Sur­vey on X-risk: Feed­back needed

vallinderSep 26, 2011, 10:15 PM
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Bio­p­reser­va­tion (of the cells of nearly-ex­tinct an­i­mals) in hopes that fu­ture tech can re­store them

SynapticSep 26, 2011, 7:09 PM
7 points

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My ra­tio­nal­ity story: Goals aren’t what you think they are

OklordSep 26, 2011, 3:37 PM
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Stanis­lav Petrov Day

gwernSep 26, 2011, 2:49 PM
46 points

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Meetup : Melbourne, prac­ti­cal ra­tio­nal­ity, Fri­day 7th Oc­to­ber, 7pm

mattSep 26, 2011, 11:26 AM
3 points

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Epistemic Utility Ar­gu­ments for Prob­a­bil­ism [Link]

XiXiDuSep 26, 2011, 11:10 AM
3 points

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Hard prob­lem? Hack away at the edges.

lukeprogSep 26, 2011, 10:03 AM
66 points

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[gooey re­quest-for-help] I don’t know what to do.

[deleted]Sep 26, 2011, 7:07 AM
14 points

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[SEQ RERUN] Origi­nal Seeing

MinibearRexSep 26, 2011, 2:46 AM
8 points

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LessWrong gam­ing community

TwistingFingersSep 26, 2011, 2:19 AM
1 point

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LessWrong gam­ing community

TwistingFingersSep 26, 2011, 2:15 AM
1 point

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How Likely Is Cry­on­ics To Work?

jefftkSep 25, 2011, 11:38 PM
25 points

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Guardian An­gels: Discrete Ex­trap­o­lated Volitions

lessdazedSep 25, 2011, 10:51 PM
1 point

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A boltz­mann brain ques­tion.

DuncanSSep 25, 2011, 10:35 PM
10 points

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Con­vinc­ing my dad to sign up for Al­cor: Ad­vice?

EphemeralNightSep 25, 2011, 10:01 PM
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Ideas for heuris­tics and bi­ases re­search topic?

TesseractSep 25, 2011, 6:20 PM
7 points

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What if we make bet­ter de­ci­sions when we trust our gut in­stincts? [Link]

XiXiDuSep 25, 2011, 12:22 PM
15 points

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Meetup : Fort Col­lins, Colorado Meetup Wed­nes­day Sept 28 7pm

EvelynMSep 25, 2011, 11:48 AM
1 point

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SIAI vs. FHI achieve­ments, 2008-2010

Kaj_SotalaSep 25, 2011, 11:42 AM
40 points

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Cog­ni­tive Neu­ro­science, Ar­row’s Im­pos­si­bil­ity The­o­rem, and Co­her­ent Ex­trap­o­lated Volition

lukeprogSep 25, 2011, 11:15 AM
26 points

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Trou­ble with Bayes The­o­rem? (The ac­tual math is con­fus­ing)

TheatreAddictSep 25, 2011, 4:49 AM
12 points

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[SEQ RERUN] The “Out­side the Box” Box

MinibearRexSep 25, 2011, 3:40 AM
11 points

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Or­ga­ni­za­tions fo­cused on the ethics and safety of fu­ture technologies

lukeprogSep 25, 2011, 2:46 AM
7 points

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Use­ful Things Vol­un­teers Can Do Right Now

lukeprogSep 24, 2011, 11:33 PM
25 points

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Meetup : Seat­tle: In­tro to Bayes’ Theorem

SarahNibsSep 24, 2011, 9:15 PM
4 points

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Meetup : Madison

fiddlemathSep 24, 2011, 8:24 PM
4 points

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100 tran­shu­man­ists de­manded im­mor­tal­ity re­searh in the cen­ter of Moscow

turchinSep 24, 2011, 5:43 PM
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[SEQ RERUN] Cached Thoughts

MinibearRexSep 24, 2011, 3:24 AM
12 points

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[link] Women in Com­puter Science, Where to Find More Info?

magfrumpSep 23, 2011, 9:11 PM
5 points

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The Ap­par­ent Real­ity of Physics

ec429Sep 23, 2011, 8:10 PM
−4 points

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Cog­ni­tive Style Tends To Pre­dict Reli­gious Con­vic­tion (psy­ch­cen­tral.com)

IncorrectSep 23, 2011, 6:28 PM
19 points

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Sili­con Valley AI/​Ma­chine Learn­ing study group

AlexMennenSep 23, 2011, 5:18 PM
3 points

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Weekly LW Mee­tups: Wash­ing­ton DC, Bal­ti­more, Hous­ton, Seat­tle, Edinburgh

FrankAdamekSep 23, 2011, 4:37 PM
5 points

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Par­ti­cles break light-speed limit?

KevinSep 23, 2011, 11:00 AM
13 points

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Liv­ing bias, not think­ing bias

crazy88Sep 23, 2011, 8:30 AM
21 points

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Syntacticism

ec429Sep 23, 2011, 6:49 AM
−4 points

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Re­con­struct­ing vi­sual ex­pe­riences from brain ac­tivity evoked by nat­u­ral movies. [link]

KevinSep 23, 2011, 5:10 AM
9 points

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[SEQ RERUN] Do We Believe Every­thing We’re Told?

MinibearRexSep 23, 2011, 3:46 AM
8 points

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Ma­chine learn­ing and un­in­tended consequences

lukeprogSep 23, 2011, 2:31 AM
18 points

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[LINK] Cog­ni­tive Bi­ases in Sports: The Ir­ra­tional­ity of Coaches, Com­men­ta­tors and Fans

[deleted]Sep 23, 2011, 12:14 AM
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The neu­ral bases of be­hav­ioral game theory

lukeprogSep 22, 2011, 8:29 PM
12 points

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AGI-2011 con­fer­ence videos

Dr_ManhattanSep 22, 2011, 6:55 PM
15 points

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Blind­sight and Consciousness

atuckerSep 22, 2011, 6:42 PM
20 points

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[LINK] Daniel Pink talks about Motivation

[deleted]Sep 22, 2011, 4:51 PM
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“Tech­ni­cal im­pli­ca­tion: My worst en­emy is an in­stance of my self.”

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Sep 22, 2011, 8:46 AM
−7 points

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Re­view: Michel Thomas French (Direct In­struc­tion)

[deleted]Sep 22, 2011, 8:34 AM
40 points

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Yet an­other book on life ex­ten­sion—“100+”, au­thor: So­nia Arrison

D_AlexSep 22, 2011, 7:47 AM
1 point

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[SEQ RERUN] Prim­ing and Contamination

MinibearRexSep 22, 2011, 3:52 AM
10 points

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Real time video face sub­sti­tu­tion (and the re­sult­ing “psy­cholog­i­cal hacks”)

IcelusSep 21, 2011, 11:32 PM
7 points

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Bayesian exercise

RolfAndreassenSep 21, 2011, 9:34 PM
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