FAI, FIA, and sin­gu­lar­ity politics

Ques­tions from po­ten­tial donors to Giv­ing What We Can, 80,000 Hours and EAA

Cry­onic re­s­ur­rec­tion—an eth­i­cal hypothetical

How well defined is ADHD?

[META] Retribu­tive down­vot­ing: Why?

[LINK] Steven Lands­burg “Ac­count­ing for Num­bers”—re­sponse to EY’s “Log­i­cal Pin­point­ing”

GiveWell and the Cen­tre for Effec­tive Altru­ism are recruiting

Musk, Mars and x-risk

Conformity

In­stru­men­tal ra­tio­nal­ity for over­com­ing dis­abil­ity and lifestyle failure (a spe­cific case)

Em­piri­cal claims, prefer­ence claims, and at­ti­tude claims

Quote on Nate Silver, and how to think about probabilities

The Case against Killer Robots (link)

In­tro­duc­tory Short Videos

Gap in un­der­stand­ing of Log­i­cal Pinpointing

Play­ing the stu­dent: at­ti­tudes to learn­ing as so­cial roles

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Novem­ber 2012

Aus­tralian Ra­tion­al­ist in America

Think Twice: A Re­sponse to Kevin Kelly on ‘Thinkism’

Coursera course on crit­i­cal thinking

“Op­ti­mal” mam­mog­ra­phy?

[LINK] Was In­trade be­ing ma­nipu­lated?

[LINK] Q&A with John E. Laird and Kristinn R. Tho­ris­son on risks from AI

Stop learn­ing, start think­ing [LINK]

SI is com­ing to Oxford, look­ing for hosts, try­ing to keep costs down

Open Thread, Novem­ber 1-15, 2012

Math­e­mat­i­cal Mea­sures of Op­ti­miza­tion Power

Novem­ber 2012 Me­dia Thread

[LINK] Tem­po­ral Binding

Open Thread, Novem­ber 16–30, 2012

[LINK] Q&A with Larry Wasser­man on risks from AI

NYC Win­ter Megameetup, Event RSVPs

Meetup : LessWrong Mon­treal—Ad­vanced Episte­mol­ogy 101

[LINK] IBM simu­late a “brain” with 500 billion neu­rons and 100 trillion synapses

[SEQ RERUN] Dreams of Autarky

Ex­am­ple of neu­rons use­fully com­mu­ni­cat­ing with­out synapses found in flies [LINK]

What do you think of my read­ing list?

Hold­ing your own LW Solstice

AGI-12 and AGI-Im­pacts—late places available

Meetup : Berkeley meetup: Hermeneu­tics!

[SEQ RERUN] Ob­serv­ing Optimization

Cry­on­ics as Charity

[SEQ RERUN] A Few Back­ground Posts by Robin Hanson

[SEQ RERUN] AI Go Foom

If MWI is cor­rect, should we ex­pect to ex­pe­rience Quan­tum Tor­ment?

[LINK] TEDx “When cre­ative ma­chines over­take man”

Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 11/​28/​12

Meetup : Mon­treal Mee­tups—Now weekly!

How many of you do­ing Khan Academy?

Meetup : Cam­bridge, MA third-Sun­days meetup