Seek­ing ad­vice on us­ing evolu­tion­ary meth­ods to solve the 3-body problem

Is lossless in­for­ma­tion trans­fer pos­si­ble?

Meetup : Van­cou­ver Big Public Meetup

Bio­hack­ing in New York, Cy­ber­net­ics and first Cy­borg Hate Crime: thev­erge.com

Meetup : Less Wrong Syd­ney: 20th Au­gust

[Link] “Proxy mea­sures, sunk costs, and Ch­ester­ton’s fence”, or: the sunk cost heuristic

Friendly AI and the limits of com­pu­ta­tional epistemology

[SEQ RERUN] No Li­cense To Be Human

Re­in­force­ment, Prefer­ence and Utility

Group ra­tio­nal­ity di­ary, 8/​6/​12

Nat­u­ral Laws Are De­scrip­tions, not Rules

The High Im­pact Net­work (THINK) - Launch­ing Now

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC So­cial Meetup

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC So­cial Meetup

Tran­script: “Choice Machines, Causal­ity, and Co­op­er­a­tion”

Depth of Knowledge

A ques­tion about Sin­gu­lar­ity Sum­mit 2012

Draft: Get Lucky

[SEQ RERUN] You Prov­ably Can’t Trust Yourself

SI/​CFAR Are Look­ing for Con­tract Web Developers

Meetup : Bratis­lava, Slo­vakia—the first LW meetup

Su­ber, “The Ethics of Deep Self-Mod­ifi­ca­tion”

The Dou­bling Box

[SEQ RERUN] The Car­toon Guide to Lob’s Theorem

Self-skep­ti­cism: the first prin­ci­ple of rationality

[video] Robin Han­son: Uploads Eco­nomics 101

[SEQ RERUN] The Car­toon Guide to Löb’s The­o­rem

Ran­dom ques­tion about starfish

What are the op­ti­mal bi­ases to over­come?

A cyn­i­cal ex­pla­na­tion for why ra­tio­nal­ists worry about FAI

Smart non-re­duc­tion­ists, philo­soph­i­cal vs. en­g­ineer­ing mind­sets, and religion

The sup­pos­edly hard prob­lem of con­scious­ness and the nonex­is­tence of sense data: Is your dog a con­scious be­ing?

Meetup : Pitts­burgh: Se­man­tic Stopsigns

“Epiphany ad­dic­tion”

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Au­gust 2012

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Madi­son, NYC

What are you work­ing on? Au­gust 2012

Wel­l­come Col­lec­tion in Lon­don has ex­hi­bi­tion on hu­man augmentation

Is­sue 301 shipped: Show par­ent com­ments on /​comments

[Link] Holis­tic learn­ing ebook

AI 5 minute ex­is­ten­tial risk talk

Meetup : Melbourne, prac­ti­cal rationality

Meetup : Melbourne, prac­ti­cal rationality

PM sys­tem is not work­ing

Room­mate in­ter­est and co­or­di­na­tion thread

Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing: A Non-Stan­dard In­tro­duc­tion (Part 2)

[SEQ RERUN] When An­thro­po­mor­phism Be­came Stupid

Rus­sian plan for im­mor­tal­ity [link]

Ad­mis­sions Es­say Help?

Look­ing for a room­mate in Moun­tain View