[LINK] Elon Musk in­ter­ested in AI safety

False Friends and Tone Policing

Rel­a­tive and Ab­solute Benefit

Flow­ers for Algernon

De­pres­sion’s evolu­tion­ary roots

Meetup : Salt Lake City, UT: Sum­mer Sols­tice 2014

On Ter­mi­nal Goals and Virtue Ethics

Two kinds of pop­u­la­tion ethics, and Cur­rent-Pop­u­la­tion Utilitarianism

Ra­tion­al­ist Sport

[LINK] Coun­ter­fac­tual Strategies

An ex­tended class of util­ity functions

Value learn­ing: ul­tra-so­phis­ti­cated Cake or Death

[LINK] The er­rors, in­sights and les­sons of fa­mous AI pre­dic­tions: preprint

Meetup : Can­berra: Many Wor­lds + Para­noid Debating

Thoughts on Struc­tur­ing AI Thought

[LINK] The fu­ture of the Tur­ing test and in­tel­li­gence measures

Max­i­mize Worst Case Bayes Score

From “Coulda” and “Woulda” to “Shoulda”: Pre­dict­ing De­ci­sions to Min­i­mize Re­gret for Par­tially Ra­tional Agents

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, June 16-30

The Power of Noise

Open thread, 16-22 June 2014

Meetup : At­lanta Movie Night: In­tro­duc­tion to Ma­chine Learning

Some al­ter­na­tives to “Friendly AI”

Failures of an em­bod­ied AIXI

Willpower De­ple­tion vs Willpower Distraction

June Monthly Brag­ging Thread

To­tal Utility is Illusionary

New or­ga­ni­za­tion—Fu­ture of Life In­sti­tute (FLI)

Tur­ing Test and Ma­chine Intelligence

[tan­gen­tial] Bit­coin: GHash just hit 51%

What re­sources have in­creas­ing marginal util­ity?

New LW Meetup: Bangalore

Su­gar and motivation

Science/​ra­tio­nal­ity sub­jects to teach

List a few posts in Main and/​or Dis­cus­sion which ac­tu­ally made you change your mind

Meetup : July Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo: Disagreement

Meetup : Lon­don So­cial Meetup (pos­si­bly) in the Sun

The phys­iol­ogy of fun?

A Story of Kings and Spies

Is there a way to stop lik­ing sugar?

En­courage pre­ma­ture AI rebellion

[LINK] Holden Karnofsky, GiveWell: Se­quence Think­ing vs. Cluster Thinking

Ethnog­ra­phy recom­men­da­tions?

Meetup : Helsinki Meetup

Meetup : Bos­ton—Com­pu­ta­tional Neu­ro­science of Perception

Ques­tion­ing and Respect

Come up with bet­ter Tur­ing Tests

Meetup : Toronto: Meet Malo from MIRI

Meetup : Is­rael Less Wrong Meetup—So­cial, Board Games and FAI

Open thread, 9-15 June 2014