Open thread, 25-31 Au­gust 2014

jaime200025 Aug 2014 11:14 UTC
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An­nounc­ing The Effec­tive Altru­ism Forum

RyanCarey24 Aug 2014 8:07 UTC
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Meetup : Any one in­ter­ested in Milwau­kee meetup?

zerotimer24 Aug 2014 4:19 UTC
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[Link] Feyn­man lec­tures on physics

Mark_Friedenbach23 Aug 2014 20:14 UTC
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Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Reconstituting

Manfred23 Aug 2014 4:19 UTC
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Study: In giv­ing char­ity, let not your right hand...

homunq22 Aug 2014 22:23 UTC
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[LINK] Physi­cist Carlo Rovelli on Modern Physics Research

shminux22 Aug 2014 21:46 UTC
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Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek22 Aug 2014 15:38 UTC
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Con­ser­va­tion of Ex­pected Jury Probability

jefftk22 Aug 2014 15:25 UTC
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Me­mory is Every­thing

Qwake22 Aug 2014 4:48 UTC
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Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Mu­se­ums Meetup

RobinZ22 Aug 2014 4:17 UTC
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Fight­ing Bi­ases and Bad Habits like Boggarts

palladias21 Aug 2014 17:07 UTC
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Another type of in­tel­li­gence explosion

Stuart_Armstrong21 Aug 2014 14:49 UTC
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An ex­am­ple of deadly non-gen­eral AI

Stuart_Armstrong21 Aug 2014 14:15 UTC
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Why we should err in both directions

owencb21 Aug 2014 11:10 UTC
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Pro­duc­tivity thoughts from Matt Fallshaw

John_Maxwell21 Aug 2014 5:05 UTC
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Imag­i­nary queues

KatjaGrace20 Aug 2014 19:54 UTC
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An­throp­ics doesn’t ex­plain why the Cold War stayed Cold

KnaveOfAllTrades20 Aug 2014 19:23 UTC
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Thought ex­per­i­ments on sim­plic­ity in log­i­cal probability

Manfred20 Aug 2014 17:25 UTC
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Pol­ling Thread

Gunnar_Zarncke20 Aug 2014 14:36 UTC
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“Fol­low your dreams” as a case study in in­cor­rect thinking

cousin_it20 Aug 2014 13:18 UTC
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Meetup : Septem­ber Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—Fixed and Growth Mindset

MelbourneLW19 Aug 2014 7:52 UTC
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Steel­man­ning MIRI critics

fowlertm19 Aug 2014 3:14 UTC
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Quan­tified Risks of Gay Male Sex

pianoforte61118 Aug 2014 23:55 UTC
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Owen Cot­ton-Bar­ratt on GPP

KatjaGrace18 Aug 2014 18:03 UTC
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Open thread, 18-24 Au­gust 2014

David_Gerard18 Aug 2014 16:55 UTC
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Meetup : Lon­don So­cial—Au­gust 24th

sixes_and_sevens18 Aug 2014 16:37 UTC
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The metaphor/​myth of gen­eral intelligence

Stuart_Armstrong18 Aug 2014 16:04 UTC
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A thought on AI un­em­ploy­ment and its consequences

Stuart_Armstrong18 Aug 2014 12:10 UTC
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A “Holy Grail” Hu­mor The­ory in One Page.

EGarrett18 Aug 2014 10:26 UTC
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Meetup : Is­rael Less Wrong Meetup: Com­mu­ni­ties and the ra­tio­nal­ist community

SoftFlare18 Aug 2014 8:16 UTC
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Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Au­gust 16-31

therufs18 Aug 2014 2:33 UTC
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Meetup : Aus­tralia-wide mega-meetup

Elo17 Aug 2014 23:08 UTC
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[meta] Fu­ture mod­er­a­tion and in­ves­ti­ga­tion of down­vote abuse cases, or, I don’t want to deal with this stuff

Kaj_Sotala17 Aug 2014 14:40 UTC
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Meetup : Perth, Aus­tralia: More Wrong

[deleted]17 Aug 2014 9:58 UTC
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Meetup : Vienna

Creutzer17 Aug 2014 3:49 UTC
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Thoughts on be­com­ing more organized

Will_BC17 Aug 2014 3:46 UTC
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Burdens

Scott Alexander16 Aug 2014 19:00 UTC
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Astray with the Truth: Logic and Math

StephenR16 Aug 2014 15:40 UTC
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Three meth­ods of at­tain­ing change

Stefan_Schubert16 Aug 2014 15:38 UTC
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Meetup : Utrecht: De­bi­as­ing techniques

immasix16 Aug 2014 10:05 UTC
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Meetup : Utrecht: Im­prove your productivity

immasix16 Aug 2014 10:03 UTC
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Do­ing good in a very noisy world

KatjaGrace16 Aug 2014 5:22 UTC
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Meetup : LessWrong Ham­burg—Diet

Gunnar_Zarncke15 Aug 2014 22:53 UTC
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FAI PR track­ing well [link]

Dr_Manhattan15 Aug 2014 21:23 UTC
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Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek15 Aug 2014 20:21 UTC
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Cre­dence Cal­ibra­tion Ice­breaker Game

Ruby14 Aug 2014 21:01 UTC
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[LINK] Speed su­per­in­tel­li­gence?

Stuart_Armstrong14 Aug 2014 15:57 UTC
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Public thread for re­searchers seek­ing ex­is­ten­tial risk consultation

snarles14 Aug 2014 13:01 UTC
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[LINK] AI risk sum­mary pub­lished in “The Con­ver­sa­tion”

Stuart_Armstrong14 Aug 2014 11:12 UTC
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