Sur­vey on X-risk: Feed­back needed

Bio­p­reser­va­tion (of the cells of nearly-ex­tinct an­i­mals) in hopes that fu­ture tech can re­store them

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

Stanis­lav Petrov Day

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

Epistemic Utility Ar­gu­ments for Prob­a­bil­ism [Link]

Hard prob­lem? Hack away at the edges.

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

[SEQ RERUN] Origi­nal Seeing

LessWrong gam­ing community

LessWrong gam­ing community

How Likely Is Cry­on­ics To Work?

Guardian An­gels: Discrete Ex­trap­o­lated Volitions

A boltz­mann brain ques­tion.

Con­vinc­ing my dad to sign up for Al­cor: Ad­vice?

Ideas for heuris­tics and bi­ases re­search topic?

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

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

SIAI vs. FHI achieve­ments, 2008-2010

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

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

[SEQ RERUN] The “Out­side the Box” Box

Or­ga­ni­za­tions fo­cused on the ethics and safety of fu­ture technologies

Use­ful Things Vol­un­teers Can Do Right Now

Meetup : Seat­tle: In­tro to Bayes’ Theorem

Meetup : Madison

100 tran­shu­man­ists de­manded im­mor­tal­ity re­searh in the cen­ter of Moscow

[SEQ RERUN] Cached Thoughts

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

The Ap­par­ent Real­ity of Physics

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

Sili­con Valley AI/​Ma­chine Learn­ing study group

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

Par­ti­cles break light-speed limit?

Liv­ing bias, not think­ing bias

Syntacticism

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

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

Ma­chine learn­ing and un­in­tended consequences

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

The neu­ral bases of be­hav­ioral game theory

AGI-2011 con­fer­ence videos

Blind­sight and Consciousness

[LINK] Daniel Pink talks about Motivation

“Tech­ni­cal im­pli­ca­tion: My worst en­emy is an in­stance of my self.”

Re­view: Michel Thomas French (Direct In­struc­tion)

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

[SEQ RERUN] Prim­ing and Contamination

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

Bayesian exercise