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?

Meetup : Syd­ney Meetup—September

Goal re­ten­tion dis­cus­sion with Eliezer

“NRx” vs. “Prog” As­sump­tions: Lo­cat­ing the Sources of Disagree­ment Between Ne­o­re­ac­tionar­ies and Pro­gres­sives (Part 1)

Meetup : Less Wrong Is­rael Meetup (Her­zliya): So­cial and Board Games

Con­sis­tent ex­trap­o­lated be­liefs about math?

LessWrong in Bris­bane, Australia

What steep learn­ing curve do you wish you’d climbed sooner?

The Oc­to­pus, the Dolphin and Us: a Great Filter tale

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Septem­ber 2014

Bayesi­anism for hu­mans: pro­saic priors

Bayesi­anism for hu­mans: “prob­a­ble enough”

Meetup : Moscow Meetup: Co­de­name Felix

Meetup : Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets and Futarchy

Meetup : Nick Bostrom Talk on Superintelligence

Overly con­ve­nient clusters, or: Be­ware sour grapes

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Septem­ber 1-15

Truth and the Liar Paradox

Septem­ber 2014 Me­dia Thread

Open thread, Sept. 1-7, 2014

[link] Large So­cial Net­works can be Tar­geted for Viral Mar­ket­ing with Small Seed Sets

To­day’s Ex­trem­ist “Rad­i­cal” Pro­fes­sors vs the Old “Red In­tel­lec­tu­als”

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Prac­ti­cal Rationality

Tips for writ­ing philo­soph­i­cal texts

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence read­ing group

An­nounce­ment: Su­per­in­tel­li­gence read­ing group

Meetup : Utrecht: Cli­mate Change

Meetup : Utrecht: Ar­tifi­cial Intelligence

Meetup : Utrecht: Effec­tive Altru­ism and Politics

Robin Han­son’s “Over­com­ing Bias” posts as an e-book.

Why ap­pear­ance mat­ters or “to be­have as if”

Meetup : Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—Habits

Sols­tice 2014 /​ Ra­tional Ri­tual Re­treat—A Call to Arms