Un­pop­u­lar ideas at­tract poor ad­vo­cates: Be charitable

Open thread, Septem­ber 15-21, 2014

Open thread, Septem­ber 15-21, 2014

What are you learn­ing?

What are your con­trar­ian views?

Meetup : Bratislava

A Guide to Ra­tional Investing

Meetup : Can­berra: More ra­tio­nal­ist fun and games!

Meetup : West LA—The Hier­ar­chy of Requests

[Link] Learn­ing how to ex­ert self-control

Pro­posal: Use log­i­cal depth rel­a­tive to hu­man his­tory as ob­jec­tive func­tion for superintelligence

High ul­te­rior motives

Should peo­ple be writ­ing more or fewer LW posts?

A kind or re­verse “tragedy of the com­mons”—any solu­tion ideas?

Ways to im­prove LessWrong

Causal de­ci­sion the­ory is unsatisfactory

[meta] New LW mod­er­a­tor: Viliam_Bur

Weekly LW Meetups

Meetup : Frank­furt: How to im­prove your life

How re­al­is­tic would AI-en­g­ineered chat­bots be?

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton D.C.: Park­our (Backup: Task Man­age­ment)

Do Vir­tual Hu­mans de­serve hu­man rights?

Meetup : LessWrong Tel Aviv: Ra­tional Ca­reer Development

AI sur­prise re­search: high value?

Over­com­ing De­ci­sion Anxiety

So­ciety Is Fixed, Biol­ogy Is Mutable

[Link] 3 Short Walk­ing Breaks Can Re­v­erse Harm From 3 Hours of Sitting

Meetup : Port­land Teach­able Skills Discussion

Meetup : So­cial Skills

Meetup : Pas­sive In­vest­ing and Fi­nan­cial Independence

Talk­ing to your­self: A use­ful think­ing tool that seems un­der­stud­ied and underdiscussed

Meetup : Brus­sels—Septem­ber meetup

Omis­sion vs com­mis­sion and con­ser­va­tion of ex­pected moral evidence

Con­ver­sa­tion with Paul Pen­ley of Ex­cel­lence in Giving

Open thread, Septem­ber 8-14, 2014

Is it a good idea to use Soylent once/​twice a day?

Meetup : Lon­don so­cial meetup

Meetup : LW Copen­hagen—Septem­ber: This Wave­func­tion Has Uncollapsed

[Link] How to see into the fu­ture (Fi­nan­cial Times)

[link] Real­ity Show ‘Utopia’

Meetup : Perth, Aus­tralia: Sun­day lunch

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Fun & Games Meetup

Meetup : Van­cou­ver, Canada: Back­yard BBQ

De­cep­tion de­tec­tion machines

A rea­son to see the future

Shal­low in­ves­ti­ga­tion into cause prioritization

Weekly LW Meetups

Meetup : Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup Vienna—Superintelligence

I’m hold­ing a birth­day fundraiser

What mo­ti­vates poli­ti­ci­ans?