[LINK] Slash­dot in­ter­view with David Et­tinger of the Cry­on­ics Institute

Open thread, Au­gust 19-25, 2013

En­gag­ing First In­tro­duc­tions to AI Risk

One way to ma­nipu­late your level of ab­strac­tion re­lated to a task

Effec­tive Altru­ist Job Board?

My daily re­flec­tion routine

The land­scape of al­tru­is­tic interventions

LW Melbourne: Re­port on Public Ra­tion­al­ity Lecture

Meetup : New Meetup: Ur­bana-Cham­paign, Illinois.

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Au­gust 16-31

Hu­mans are util­ity monsters

New LW Meetup: Saskatoon

High level cli­mate in­ter­ven­tion considerations

[LINK] Ra­dio in­ter­view with Daniel Kahneman

Meetup : Moscow: The Sun­day Meetup

Where I’ve Changed My Mind on My Ap­proach to Spec­u­la­tive Causes

Op­ti­miz­ing op­ti­miz­ing LessWrong

“Mind read­ing”—how is this done?

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, part 26, chap­ter 97

An illicit the­ory of costly signaling

Prac­ti­cal Limits to Giv­ing Now and The Haste Consideration

Meetup : Bratis­lava Meetup VI.

[LINK] EdTech startup hosts AI Hunger Games (cash prize $1k)

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC meetup: Robin Han­son vis­its again

[LINK] Ma­jor guide to supplements

En­gag­ing In­tel­lec­tual Elites at Less Wrong

Bets on an Ex­treme Future

Bi­ases of In­tu­itive and Log­i­cal Thinkers

Does Check­ers have sim­pler rules than Go?

[LINK] Hyper­loop offi­cially an­nounced — pre­dic­tions, any­one?

Course—Sav­ing Millions of lives at a time [link]

Up­date on es­tab­lish­ment of Cam­bridge’s Cen­tre for Study of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Meetup : Melbourne So­cial Meetup

What Bayesi­anism taught me

Open thread, Au­gust 12-18, 2013

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC Lo­jban meetup

Some MIRI Work­shop Stuff

Com­mon sense as a prior

New Monthly Thread: Bragging

The Re­but­tal Repository

Meetup : Helsinki Meetup

Meetup: Philadelphia, Au­gust 11, games

Pro­posal: pe­ri­odic re­post of the Best Learn­ing resources

Who are some of the best writ­ers in his­tory?

Effec­tive Ra­tion­al­ity Train­ing Online

In­ter­est­ing new Pew Re­search study on Amer­i­can opinions about rad­i­cal life extension

Meetup : Durham NC/​Tri­an­gle Area: “Ra­tion­al­ity is hard! Let’s do math” (Utility Func­tions/​Prospect The­ory)

Weekly LW Meetups

Great­est Philoso­pher in History

Meetup : West LA Meetup—Con­fess Your Un­pop­u­lar Opinion