What would you do with a fi­nan­cial safety net?

[LINK] Be­ing No One (~50 min talk on the self-model in your brain)

link to a Feyn­man video (and a 2nd (dis­tantly re­lated) video)

My in­ter­view with Nikola Danay­lov for ‘Sin­gu­lar­ity 1 on 1’ [link]

Com­plete­ness, in­com­plete­ness, and what it all means: first ver­sus sec­ond or­der logic

The les­sons of a world with­out Hitler

[LINK]The Edge’s yearly question

[SEQ RERUN] Dis­guised Queries

Open Thread, Jan­uary 15-31, 2012

Who’s in the AI busi­ness?

Idea: Add books to an SRS with­out split­ting them into facts

The Sav­age the­o­rem and the Ells­berg paradox

Meetup : Austin LW Meetup

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Melbourne, Austin, At­lanta, Seat­tle, Philadelphia, Fort Collins

Meetup : Melbourne so­cial meetup

New SI pub­li­ca­tions design

Can the Chain Still Hold You?

Knowl­edge vs Technology

The Noddy problem

Meetup : Pitts­burgh Meetup: Big Gam­ing Fun 2!

NonGoogleables

Q&A with ex­perts on risks from AI #3

[SEQ RERUN] The Cluster Struc­ture of Thingspace

Pro­ce­du­ral knowl­edge gap: pub­lic key encryption

AI Challenge: Ants—Post Mortem

Meetup : Mon­day Madi­son Meetup

Ideas for ra­tio­nal­ist meetup topics

Meetup : First Salt Lake City Meetup: 22 Jan­uary 2012 03:00PM

What jobs are safe in an au­to­mated fu­ture?

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

Meetup : Fort Col­lins Meetup

Meetup : Fort Col­lins Meetup

On ac­cept­ing an ar­gu­ment if you have limited com­pu­ta­tional power.

Meetup : Seat­tle, Diseased Think­ing and ev­i­dence on parenting

Utopian hope ver­sus reality

Meetup : Hous­ton Meetup − 1/​15

[SEQ RERUN] Typ­i­cal­ity and Asym­met­ri­cal Similarity

Long-Term Tech­nolog­i­cal Forecasting

The Gift I Give Tomorrow

Ra­tion­al­ity med­i­ta­tion the­ory.

De­sign­ing Ritual

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CEV Se­quence—On What is a Self—Part 1

[Link] There is noth­ing like “in­tel­li­gence”, only an evolu­tion is go­ing on

[Tem­plate] Ques­tions re­gard­ing pos­si­ble risks from ar­tifi­cial intelligence

On Lev­er­age Re­search’s plan for an op­ti­mal world

[SEQ RERUN] Similar­ity Clusters

Meetup : West LA Meetup 01-11-2012

Ra­tional Justice

In­tro­duc­ing Lev­er­age Research