Check­ing Kurzweil’s track record

Signs you’re on LW too much

Heuris­tic: How does it sound in a movie?

[Book Re­view] “The Sig­nal and the Noise: Why So Many Pre­dic­tions Fail—But Some Don’t.”, by Nate Silver

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Oc­to­ber 2012

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

[Link] Think Bayes: Bayesian Statis­tics Made Simple

Ra­tion­al­ity, Tran­shu­man­ism, and Men­tal Health

[Link] Sin­gu­lar­ity Sum­mit Talks

Ra­tion­al­ity ver­sus Short Term Selves

Re­cov­er­ing the ‘spark’

[LINK] Higher in­tel­li­gence cor­re­lates with greater cooperation

Point-Based Value Iteration

Clar­ifi­ca­tion: Be­havi­ourism & Reinforcement

Good tran­shu­man­ist fic­tion?

A prob­a­bil­ity question

Omega lies

[LINK] Differ­ent heuris­tics at differ­ent de­ci­sion speeds

We won’t be able to recog­nise the hu­man Gödel sentence

Oc­to­ber 2012 Me­dia Thread

Aban­don­ing Cached Selves to Re-Write My Source Code Par­tially, I’ve Be­come Unstable

The ba­sic ar­gu­ment for the fea­si­bil­ity of transhumanism

[LINK] AI-box­ing Is News, Somehow

Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 10/​29/​12

Sin­gu­lar­ity Sum­mit 2012, dis­cuss it here

Meetup : Who’s go­ing to Skep­ti­con 5?

[SEQ RERUN] Ethics Notes

Am­bi­tious util­i­tar­i­ans must con­cern them­selves with death

De­ci­sion the­ory and “win­ning”

Open Thread, Oc­to­ber 16-31, 2012

[SEQ RERUN] In­ner Goodness

On­line Op­ti­mal Philan­thropy Meeting

[SEQ RERUN] Which Parts Are “Me”?

[Link] One in five Amer­i­can adults say they are athe­ist, ag­nos­tic or “noth­ing in par­tic­u­lar”

Meetup : Bratis­lava meetup

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

On­line Op­ti­mal Philan­thropy Meetup: Tue 10/​9, 8pm ET

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

When does some­thing stop be­ing a “self-con­sis­tent idea” and be­come sci­en­tific fact?

Meetup : First Meetup- Cleve­land and Akron, Ohio

A pre­sen­ta­tion about Cox’s The­o­rem made for my English class

[LINK] blog on cry­on­ics by some­one who freezes things in a cell bio lab

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign, IL

[SEQ RERUN] Sel­ling Nonapples

[SEQ RERUN] Mun­dane Magic

[SEQ RERUN] The Weighted Ma­jor­ity Algorithm

[SEQ RERUN] Effi­cient Cross-Do­main Optimization

Meetup : Bielefeld Meetup, Oc­to­ber 9th

[LINK] Learn­ing with­out prac­tice, through fMRI induction

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