… And Every­one Loses Their Minds

New LW Meetup: Dallas

LINK: Guinea worm dis­ease close to eradication

Slides on­line from “The Fu­ture of AI: Op­por­tu­ni­ties and Challenges”

Learn Three Things Every Day

An ex­am­ple and dis­cus­sion of ex­ten­sion neglect

Meetup : West LA—Keep Your Iden­tity Small

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Jan­uary 16-31

Vingean Reflec­tion: Reli­able Rea­son­ing for Self-Im­prov­ing Agents

Elon Musk donates $10M to the Fu­ture of Life In­sti­tute to keep AI benefi­cial

Je suis Charlie

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Unconference

Meetup : Can­berra: the He­donic Treadmill

Meetup : Lon­don So­cial Meetup, 18/​01/​2015

Selfish prefer­ences and self-modification

Meetup : Raleigh, NC (RTLW) Dis­cus­sion Meetup

Quan­tum cat-sten­cil in­terfer­ence pro­jec­tion? What is this?

I’m the new moderator

[meta] New LW mod­er­a­tor: NancyLebovitz

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

Why you should con­sider buy­ing Bit­coin right now (Jan 2015) if you have high risk tolerance

Less ex­ploitable value-up­dat­ing agent

Meetup : Brus­sels Fe­bru­ary meetup: Words

‘Dumb’ AI ob­serves and ma­nipu­lates controllers

Meetup : MelbLW: Jan­uary So­cial Meetup

LW-ish meetup in Boulder, CO

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence 18: Life in an al­gorith­mic economy

How sub­jec­tive is at­trac­tive­ness?

Eth­i­cal Diets

What top­ics are ap­pro­pri­ate for LessWrong?

Mis­ap­plied eco­nomics and over­wrought estimates

Open thread, Jan. 12 - Jan. 18, 2015

Re­search Pri­ori­ties for Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence: An Open Letter

The guardian ar­ti­cle on longevity re­search [link]

Who are your fa­vorite “hid­den ra­tio­nal­ists”?

How Is­lamic ter­ror­ists re­duced ter­ror­ism in the US

Meetup : At­lanta Jan­uary Meetup: Bor­ing Ad­vice & Stupid Questions

Ex­is­ten­tial Risk and Ex­is­ten­tial Hope: Definitions

Pro­duc­tivity poll: how fre­quently do you think you *should* check email?

Meetup : Mon­treal Effec­tive Altru­ism: Global Poverty

Meetup : Less Wrong Is­rael Meetup: So­cial and Board Games

“Evil” de­ci­sion prob­lems in prov­abil­ity logic

New LW Mee­tups: Paris, San Francisco

Ex­plain­ing “map and ter­ri­tory” and “fun­da­men­tal at­tri­bu­tion er­ror” to a broad audience

Ques­tions of Rea­son­ing un­der Log­i­cal Uncertainty

Memes and Ra­tional Decisions

The Im­por­tance of Sidekicks

Meetup : Moscow LW lec­ture cen­tre meetup: The New Foundation

2015 Re­pos­i­tory Reruns—Bor­ing Ad­vice Repository

con­trol­ling AI be­hav­ior through un­usual ax­io­matic probabilities