Tak­ing into ac­count an­other’s preferences

Do I re­ally not be­lieve in God? Do you?

Pro­gram­ming Thread

Science, Eng­ineer­ing, and Un­cool­ness; Here and Now, Then and There

Pas­cal’s Mug­ging for bounded util­ity functions

CFAR’s Inau­gu­ral Fundrais­ing Drive

Two Anki plu­g­ins to re­in­force re­view­ing (up­dated)

Pre­dic­tion Sources

Pro­ce­du­ral Knowl­edge Gaps, part 2

Gun Con­trol: How would we know?

Car­ing about what hap­pens af­ter you die

[Link] Con­test­ing the “Na­ture” Of Con­for­mity: What Mil­gram and Zim­bardo’s Stud­ies Really Show

New Se­quences and Gen­eral Up­date From Castify

[LINK] Should we live to 1,000?

The challenges of bring­ing up AIs

Look­ing for a likely cause of a men­tal phenomenon

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 17, chap­ter 86

[link] In­ter­view with An­ders Sand­berg on how to make a differ­ence through re­search and how to choose a re­search topic

How to in­cen­tivize LW wiki ed­its?

Math ap­pendix for: “Why you must max­i­mize ex­pected util­ity”

[Link] ‘Some­thing feels wrong with the state of philos­o­phy to­day.’

In­tel­li­gence ex­plo­sion in or­ga­ni­za­tions, or why I’m not wor­ried about the singularity

[LINK] AmA by com­pu­ta­tional neu­ro­scien­tists be­hind ‘the world’s largest func­tional brain model’

A Game for Prob­a­bil­is­tic Thinking

Ed­u­ca­tion via Cell Phone in Africa

Call for a Friendly AI chan­nel on freenode

Is Equal­ity Really about Diminish­ing Marginal Utility?

What are you work­ing on? De­cem­ber 2012

Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 12/​25/​12

No ap­par­ent Dun­ning-Kruger effect for LW participation

How to Avoid the Con­flict Between Fem­i­nism and Evolu­tion­ary Psy­chol­ogy?

[LINK] Forty Years of String The­ory: Reflect­ing on the Foundations

Mini ad­vent cal­en­dar of Xrisks: syn­thetic biology

Poli­tics Dis­cus­sion Thread De­cem­ber 2012

[Link] New prize on causal­ity in statis­tics education

Com­ple­ment Luke’s Mega-Course for Aspiring Philosophers

Mini ad­vent cal­en­dar of Xrisks: nu­clear war

[LINK] 23andme is 99$ now

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 18, chap­ter 87

Open Thread, De­cem­ber 16-31, 2012

Meetup : Toronto THINK

[SEQ RERUN] Two Vi­sions of Heritage

[SEQ RERUN] The Bad Guy Bias

Thoughts on the Drake Equa­tion and the Great Filter

[Link] How to Win at Fore­cast­ing—a con­ver­sa­tion with Philip Tetlock

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes De­cem­ber 2012

[SEQ RERUN] Not Tak­ing Over the World

Mini ad­vent cal­en­dar of Xrisks: nanotechnology

Open Thread, De­cem­ber 1-15, 2012

De­cem­ber 2012 Me­dia Thread