What’s the right way to think about how much to give to char­ity?

New­comblike prob­lems are the norm

Si­mu­la­tion ar­gu­ment meets de­ci­sion theory

Meetup : Has­selt Meetup: Brus­sels moves to Has­selt this month!

Depth-based su­per­con­trol­ler ob­jec­tives, take 2

Books on con­scious­ness?

Beyond type 1 vs. type 2 pro­cess­ing: the tri-di­men­sional way (link)

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: The Steep Ap­proach to Crazytown

Meetup : At­lanta Septem­ber Meetup—Self Awareness

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence Read­ing Group 2: Fore­cast­ing AI

I may have just had a dan­ger­ous thought.

CEV-tropes

CEV: co­her­ence ver­sus extrapolation

Open thread, Septem­ber 22-28, 2014

Meetup : Czech’s first Meetup Prague

Meetup : West LA—In­fla­tion of Terminology

Meetup : Copen­hagen Septem­ber So­cial Meetup—Botanisk Have

In or­der to greatly re­duce X-risk, de­sign self-repli­cat­ing space­craft with­out AGI

Meetup : Stan­ford THINK starts weekly mee­tups this Sunday

An in­tro­duc­tion to New­comblike problems

You’re En­ti­tled to Every­one’s Opinion

LessWrong’s at­ti­tude to­wards AI research

Street ac­tion “Stop ex­is­ten­tial risks!”, Union square, San Fran­cisco, Septem­ber 27, 2014 at 2:00 PM

Dis­cus­sion of “What are your con­trar­ian views?”

[ques­tion] What edu­tain­ment apps do you recom­mend?

Link: quo­tas-microag­gres­sion-and-meritocracy

Weekly LW Meetups

A proof of Löb’s the­o­rem in Haskell

Friendli­ness in Nat­u­ral Intelligences

Friendli­ness in Nat­u­ral Intelligences

Link: The trap of “op­ti­mal con­di­tions”

Meetup : Moscow Meetup: Unusual as usual

Petrov Day is Septem­ber 26

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Mini Talks

Si­mu­late and Defer To More Ra­tional Selves

Every­body’s talk­ing about ma­chine ethics

Meetup : MelbLW: Septem­ber So­cial Meetup

What It’s Like to No­tice Things

Link: How Com­mu­nity Feed­back Shapes User Behavior

Meetup : Perth, Aus­tralia: Games night

Should EA’s be Su­per­ra­tional co­op­er­a­tors?

Meetup : War­saw, next week!

Any LessWrong read­ers at the Univer­sity of Michi­gan?

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Septem­ber 16-30

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Tortoises

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence Read­ing Group—Sec­tion 1: Past Devel­op­ments and Pre­sent Capabilities

Un­pop­u­lar ideas at­tract poor ad­vo­cates: Be charitable

Open thread, Septem­ber 15-21, 2014

Open thread, Septem­ber 15-21, 2014

What are you learn­ing?