How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious

Meetup : Hous­ton Meetup − 1/​29

Meetup : Need more peo­ple for Van­cou­ver meetup

Tell LessWrong about your char­i­ta­ble donations

[LINK] Neu­ro­scien­tists Find That Sta­tus within Groups Can Affect IQ

Meetup : West LA Meetup 01-25-2012

The Hu­man’s Hid­den Utility Func­tion (Maybe)

How would you talk a stranger off the ledge?

Meetup : Melbourne prac­ti­cal ra­tio­nal­ity meetup

Meetup : Water­loo Meetup

Meetup : Salt Lake City LW Meetup #2 Logistics

[SEQ RERUN] Ta­boo Your Words

Meetup : On­go­ing Ohio Meetup

Fis­sure opens in chess AI scene [link]

Ques­tion Re­gard­ing Motorcycling

Star­tups as a Ra­tion­al­ity Test Bed?

Study Hacks on Con­ve­nience as Anti-Productivity

AI Box Role Plays

Neu­rolog­i­cal re­al­ity of hu­man thought and de­ci­sion mak­ing; im­pli­ca­tions for ra­tio­nal­ism.

The Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute is hiring an ex­ec­u­tive as­sis­tant near Berkeley

[SEQ RERUN] Empty Labels

[Link] The Hy­bo­rian Age

The hun­dred-room problem

New x-risk organizations

Poli­ti­ci­ans’ fam­ily as signalling

The Dark Arts: A Begin­ner’s Guide

Some po­ten­tial dan­gers of ra­tio­nal­ity training

[SEQ RERUN] The Ar­gu­ment from Com­mon Usage

Dooms­day Ar­gu­ment with Strong Self-Sam­pling Assumption

Limits on self-optimisation

A Sim­ple Solu­tion to the FAI Problem

A Word to the Resourceful

Crocker’s Rules: How far to take it?

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Port­land, Berkleley, San Diego, Pitts­burgh, Hous­ton, Seat­tle, Madi­son, Fort Col­lins, Syd­ney, Melbourne

Pre­dic­tionBook: Fea­ture Re­quest and Bug Report

[SEQ RERUN] Feel the Meaning

Break­ing the chain of akrasia

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Quixey Challenge—Fix a bug in 1 minute, win $100. Refer a win­ner, win $50.

Zeck­hauser’s roulette

Q&A with ex­perts on risks from AI #4

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A call for solu­tions and a tease of mine

The MIT Mys­tery Hunt and the Illu­sion of Transparency

POSITION: De­sign and Write Ra­tion­al­ity Curriculum

How to un-kill your mind—maybe.

[SEQ RERUN] Disput­ing Definitions

The prob­lem with too many ra­tio­nal memes

The Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute’s Ar­ro­gance Problem

[Meta] No LessWrong Black­out?