Open thread, 25-31 Au­gust 2014

An­nounc­ing The Effec­tive Altru­ism Forum

Meetup : Any one in­ter­ested in Milwau­kee meetup?

[Link] Feyn­man lec­tures on physics

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Reconstituting

Study: In giv­ing char­ity, let not your right hand...

[LINK] Physi­cist Carlo Rovelli on Modern Physics Research

Weekly LW Meetups

Con­ser­va­tion of Ex­pected Jury Probability

Me­mory is Every­thing

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Mu­se­ums Meetup

Fight­ing Bi­ases and Bad Habits like Boggarts

Another type of in­tel­li­gence explosion

An ex­am­ple of deadly non-gen­eral AI

Why we should err in both directions

Pro­duc­tivity thoughts from Matt Fallshaw

Imag­i­nary queues

An­throp­ics doesn’t ex­plain why the Cold War stayed Cold

Thought ex­per­i­ments on sim­plic­ity in log­i­cal probability

Pol­ling Thread

“Fol­low your dreams” as a case study in in­cor­rect thinking

Meetup : Septem­ber Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—Fixed and Growth Mindset

Steel­man­ning MIRI critics

Quan­tified Risks of Gay Male Sex

Owen Cot­ton-Bar­ratt on GPP

Open thread, 18-24 Au­gust 2014

Meetup : Lon­don So­cial—Au­gust 24th

The metaphor/​myth of gen­eral intelligence

A thought on AI un­em­ploy­ment and its consequences

A “Holy Grail” Hu­mor The­ory in One Page.

Meetup : Is­rael Less Wrong Meetup: Com­mu­ni­ties and the ra­tio­nal­ist community

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Au­gust 16-31

Meetup : Aus­tralia-wide mega-meetup

[meta] Fu­ture mod­er­a­tion and in­ves­ti­ga­tion of down­vote abuse cases, or, I don’t want to deal with this stuff

Meetup : Perth, Aus­tralia: More Wrong

Meetup : Vienna

Thoughts on be­com­ing more organized

Burdens

Astray with the Truth: Logic and Math

Three meth­ods of at­tain­ing change

Meetup : Utrecht: De­bi­as­ing techniques

Meetup : Utrecht: Im­prove your productivity

Do­ing good in a very noisy world

Meetup : LessWrong Ham­burg—Diet

FAI PR track­ing well [link]

Weekly LW Meetups

Cre­dence Cal­ibra­tion Ice­breaker Game

[LINK] Speed su­per­in­tel­li­gence?

Public thread for re­searchers seek­ing ex­is­ten­tial risk consultation

[LINK] AI risk sum­mary pub­lished in “The Con­ver­sa­tion”