Us­ing vs. eval­u­at­ing (or, Why I don’t come around here no more)

Tulpa Refer­ences/​Discussion

Write down your ba­sic re­al­iza­tions as a mat­ter of habit. Share this file with the world.

[Link] Con­scious­ness as a State of Mat­ter (Max Teg­mark)

How to be­come a PC?

Cry­on­ics As Un­tested Med­i­cal Procedure

[Link] Valproic acid, a drug for brain plasticity

Huffing­ton Post ar­ti­cle on Deep­Mind-re­quested AI ethics board, links back to LW [link]

Chap­ter 102: Caring

Ap­ply­ing re­in­force­ment learn­ing the­ory to re­duce felt tem­po­ral distance

Foun­da­tions of Probability

[link] How do good ideas spread?

Fu­tur­ism’s Track Record

Pol­ling Thread

Self-Study Ques­tions Thread

Put­ting in the Numbers

The non-In­de­pen­dence of su­perfi­cially-Ir­rele­vant Alternatives

Are you a virtue ethi­cist at heart?

Can We Do Without Bridge Hy­pothe­ses?

Divi­sion of cog­ni­tive labour in ac­cor­dance with re­searchers’ ability

Physics grad stu­dent: how to build em­ploy­a­bil­ity in pro­gram­ming & finance

“A Defi­ni­tion of Sub­jec­tive Prob­a­bil­ity” by An­scombe and Aumann

Stupid Ques­tions Thread—Jan­uary 2014

Func­tional Side Effects

New Year’s Pre­dic­tion Thread (2014)

Dou­ble-thick tran­sis­tors and other sub­jec­tive phenomena

Jan­uary Monthly Brag­ging Thread

Thought Crimes

Ra­tional Re­s­olu­tions: Spe­cial CFAR Mini-work­shop SATURDAY

Open thread, Jan­uary 25- Fe­bru­ary 1

Meetup : I moved to Port­land! I want to meet you!

To cap­ture anti-death in­tu­itions, in­clude mem­ory in utilitarianism

Meetup : Lon­don—The Schel­ling Point Strat­egy Game (plus so­cials)

What ra­tio­nal­ity ma­te­rial should I teach in my game the­ory course

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Jan­uary 2014

What if Strong AI is just not pos­si­ble?

Jan­uary 2014 Me­dia Thread

Meetup : Meetup : Lon­don—Para­noid De­bat­ing 2nd Feb, plus so­cial 9th Feb

What are you work­ing on? Jan­uary 2014

On Vot­ing for Third Parties

Do we un­der­use the ge­netic heuris­tic?

Open Thread for Jan­uary 8 − 16 2014

TED Prize Nomination

[Link] YCom­bi­na­tor-Backed Non-Profit Startup At­tempt­ing HIV/​AIDS Vaccine

Com­mu­nity bias in threat evaluation

Vari­ables in Ar­gu­ments as a Source of Confusion

Pre­scrip­tive vs. de­scrip­tive and ob­jec­tive vs. sub­jec­tive definitions

[Link] Hu­man­ity in Jeop­ardy—Max Teg­mark on AI risk

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton DC: Potatoes

Free on­line course: How to Rea­son and Ar­gue start­ing Mon. Any in­ter­est in study group?