DAGGRE group fore­cast­ing workshop

Meetup : Queue­ing and More

Friendly AI Society

Ra­tion­ally Irrational

Causal di­a­grams and soft­ware engineering

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 10

[Link] At­lantic In­ter­view with Nick Bostrom—“We’re Un­der­sti­mat­ing the Risk of Hu­man Ex­tinc­tion”

One as­piring ra­tio­nal­ist’s re­sponse to KONY 2012

[link] New Scien­tist, on the dis­tant future

“How We De­cide”, by Jonah Lehrer, kin­dle ver­sion on sale for 99 cents at amazon

[SEQ RERUN] If You De­mand Magic, Magic Won’t Help

Deli­cious Lu­minos­ity, Om Nom Nom

Us­ing de­grees of free­dom to change the past for fun and profit

How to Fix Science

Ray Kurzweil is speak­ing at my uni­ver­sity tonight. What ques­tions should I ask him?

The Fox and the Low-Hang­ing Grapes

A Ra­tion­al­ity Lab Note­book/​Work­book/​Vade Mecum

Which drives can sur­vive in­tel­li­gence’s self mod­ifi­ca­tion?

[Link] Re­search on Chris­tian deconversion

[Link] Per­son­al­ity change key to im­prov­ing wellbeing

Main sec­tion vs. dis­cus­sion section

[SEQ RERUN] Bind Your­self to Reality

Pro­duc­tivity tips for those low on motivation

Emo­tional reg­u­la­tion, Part I: a prob­lem summary

Meetup Tac­tics Open Thread

[draft] Gen­er­al­iz­ing from av­er­age: a com­mon fal­lacy?

The Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute has started pub­lish­ing monthly progress reports

[SEQ RERUN] Joy in Discovery

“The Jour­nal of Real Effects”

Writ­ing about Sin­gu­lar­ity: need­ing help with refer­ences and bibliography

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