The kines­the­sia switch

Sapir-Whorf , Sav­ings, and Dis­count Rates [Link]

60m As­teroid cur­rently as­signed a .022% chance of hit­ting Earth.

[SEQ RERUN] Joy in the Merely Real

AI Risk and Op­por­tu­nity: A Strate­gic Analysis

Any­one want to proofread my in­tro ar­ti­cle about an­throp­ics?

Re­quest for in­put: draft of my “com­ing out” state­ment on re­li­gious deconversion

[Link] The emo­tional sys­tem (aka Type 1 think­ing) might ex­cel at com­plex decisions

[LINK] Why You Should Keep Your Goals Secret

[SEQ RERUN] Sa­vanna Poets

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes March 2012

Is it ob­vi­ous that pain is very im­por­tant?

Self-lo­cat­ing be­liefs across iden­tity fission

Meetup : Austin, TX

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Buenos Aires, Cam­bridge UK, Chicago, Love­land/​Fort Col­lins CO, Melbourne, Tuc­son, Twin Cities

Peo­ple who “don’t ra­tio­nal­ize”? [Help Ra­tion­al­ity Group figure it out]

[LINK] An amaz­ing break­through in wire­less com­mu­ni­ca­tion, or a pipe dream?

Ran­dom per­sonal thoughts on work­load pes­simism as a pro­cras­ti­na­tion problem

Jour­nal of Con­scious­ness Stud­ies is­sue on the Singularity

Meetup : Fort Col­lins, Colorado Meetup Wedne­day 7pm

Heuris­tics and Bi­ases in Charity

Meetup : Brus­sels meetup

Meetup : Syd­ney—Core sequences

How do you no­tice when you’re pro­cras­ti­nat­ing?

How do you no­tice when you’re ra­tio­nal­iz­ing?

[SEQ RERUN] Fake Reductionism

Cash­ing Out Cog­ni­tive Bi­ases as Behavior

The Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute is hiring re­mote HTML /​ WordPress work­ers!

The Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute is hiring re­mote ed­i­tors!

Art vs. science

Sta­tus and Chang­ing your Mind

Derad­i­cal­iz­ing Is­lamist Ex­trem­ists (DC, March 13)

March 2012 Me­dia Thread

Open Thread, March 1-15, 2012

Sin­gu­lar­ity Sum­mit 2011 Work­shop Report

[SEQ RERUN] Ex­plain­ing vs. Ex­plain­ing Away

Meetup : Hous­ton Meetup − 3/​4

Daniel Kah­ne­man on Char­lie Rose [video]

Sin­gu­lar­ity-ori­ented Sci-Fi col­lec­tion to be pub­lished [link]

Another prob­lem with CDT, in­volv­ing Bell’s Theorem

‘Utility max­i­miza­tion gen­er­al­ized’

Per­son­al­ity tests?

[SEQ RERUN] Reductionism

Meetup : Van­cou­ver!

Two phone apps that use Bayes to help doc­tors make bet­ter de­ci­sions [links]

Trap­ping AIs via util­ity indifference

Longecity fund­ing cryo re­search [link]

Ra­tion­al­ity & Star­tups—The Workshop

Ja­pan Weighed Evac­u­at­ing Tokyo in Nu­clear Cri­sis [link]

My sum­mary of Eliezer’s po­si­tion on free will