Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 10/​29/​12

Proofs, Im­pli­ca­tions, and Models

Check­ing Kurzweil’s track record

[LINK] How ra­tio­nal is the US fed­eral state

[SEQ RERUN] Failure By Analogy

An anec­dote about names

In­cen­tives to Make Money More Effec­tively, Should We List Them?

Origi­nal Re­search on Less Wrong

[SEQ RERUN] Log­i­cal or Con­nec­tion­ist AI?

Con­struct­ing fic­tional eu­gen­ics (LW edi­tion)

Meetup : First Meetup- Cleve­land and Akron, Ohio

Meetup : Who’s go­ing to Skep­ti­con 5?

[Link] Epigenetics

On­line Op­ti­mal Philan­thropy Meeting

Na­tive Rus­sian speak­ers wanted (for proofread­ing LW texts, again)

[Link] Sin­gu­lar­ity Sum­mit Talks

Econ­omy gos­sip open thread

Heuris­tic: How does it sound in a movie?

Pas­sive in­come for dummies

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Bratis­lava, Cam­bridge MA, Durham NC (2), Salt Lake City, Wash­ing­ton DC

Meetup : Pitts­burgh: Belief as attire

[LINK] Break­ing the illu­sion of understanding

How to Deal with De­pres­sion—The Meta Layers

[LINK] Mas­ter­ing Lin­ear Alge­bra in 10 Days: As­tound­ing Ex­per­i­ments in Ul­tra-Learning

Smok­ing le­sion as a coun­terex­am­ple to CDT

The Prob­lem With Ra­tional Wiki

Pre­dic­tion mar­ket se­quence requested

[SEQ RERUN] The Na­ture of Logic

If we live in a simu­la­tion, what does that im­ply?

A fol­low-up prob­a­bil­ity ques­tion: Data sam­ples with differ­ent priors

Am­bi­tious util­i­tar­i­ans must con­cern them­selves with death

Cake, or death!

Fi­nal cause is episte­molog­i­cally pri­mary, but effi­cient cause is meta­phys­i­cally primary

[SEQ RERUN] Sel­ling Nonapples

Meetup : Melbourne, prac­ti­cal rationality

[Link] Offense 101

Ra­tion­al­ity ver­sus Short Term Selves

Equal­ity and na­tal­ism

Is Omega Im­pos­si­ble? Can we even ask?

Meetup : Cam­bridge UK Weekly Meeting

Omega lies

[SEQ RERUN] The Weighted Ma­jor­ity Algorithm

Meetup : Berkeley meetup: Suc­cess stories

Re­cov­er­ing the ‘spark’

Naive TDT, Bayes nets, and coun­ter­fac­tual mugging

Meetup : West LA Meetup—Cog­ni­tive Bias Round-Robin

Value Loading

Pop­u­lar me­dia cov­er­age of Sin­gu­lar­ity Sum­mit -the Verge [link]

Ar­gu­ment by lex­i­cal over­load­ing, or, Don’t cut your wants with shoulds

Meetup : Toronto THINK