Ray Kurzweil joins Google to work on AI (link)

Health/​Longevity Link List

LW Women- Fe­male privilege

[LINK] Fixed-ac­tion pat­terns: Stop FAPing!

Meetup : Pade­born Meetup May 8th

Es­ti­mates vs. head-to-head comparisons

Seek­ing re­li­able ev­i­dence—claim that clos­ing sweat­shops leads to child prostitution

Meetup : Visit­ing Swe­den and Switzer­land! Let’s get together

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes May 2013

Weekly LW Mee­tups: Austin, Lon­don, Melbourne, Moscow, Van­cou­ver, Wash­ing­ton DC

Meetup : [Cam­bridge] How To Do Everything

Meetup : [Moscow] Ra­tion­al­ity and Media

[SEQ RERUN] Bayesi­ans vs. Barbarians

Devel­op­men­tal Think­ing Shout-out to CFAR

Book Sugges­tion: “Di­a­minds” is worth read­ing (CFAR-es­que)

Meetup : [New York] Effec­tive Altru­ism (Out­door!) Din­ner Discussion

So­cial in­tel­li­gence, ed­u­ca­tion, & the workplace

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC fun and games meetup

Open Thread, May 1-14, 2013

Meetup : Durham/​RTLW HPMoR dis­cus­sion, ch. 61-63

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, May 1-15

What do pro­fes­sional philoso­phers be­lieve, and why?

May 2013 Me­dia Thread

[SEQ RERUN] Col­lec­tive Apa­thy and the Internet

Mor­tal: A Transpony­ist Fanfiction

[LINK] The Un­be­liev­ers: Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawk­ins Team Up Against Religion

Meetup : Group De­ci­sion Mak­ing (the good, the bad, and the con­fu­sion of welfare eco­nomics)

Meetup : Buf­falo LW Sun­day Meetup

Meetup : Big Gam­ing Fun 6: A New Begin­ning!

[SEQ RERUN] By­s­tan­der Apathy

[Link] Ca­plan asks for help op­ti­miz­ing his will.

New re­port: In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sion Microeconomics

Prob­lems in Education

[Link] 2012 Win­ter In­tel­li­gence Con­fer­ence videos available

Good luck, Mr. Rationalist

Priv­ileg­ing the Question

Meetup : NewYork—Hu­man­ist Cul­ture Open Mic

[LINK] Is it worth the time?

Meetup : Brus­sels meetup

Meet up in St. Peters­burg, Russia

LW Women En­tries- Creepiness

Meetup : At­lanta Less­wrong’s May Meetup: The Ra­tion­al­ity of So­cial Re­la­tion­ships, Friend­ship, Love, and Fam­ily.

Three more ways iden­tity can be a curse

The Up­ward Scal­ing Im­por­tance of Rationality

Are there good rea­sons to get into a PHD (i.e. in Philos­o­phy)? And what to op­ti­mize for in such case?

Links pass­ing through api.viglink.com?

Weekly LW Mee­tups: At­lanta, Austin, Ber­lin, Brus­sels, Cam­bridge MA, Cinc­in­nati, Durham, Van­cou­ver, Wash­ing­ton DC

Prob­a­bil­is­tic Löb theorem

Logic in the lan­guage of probability

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC books meetup