An­i­mated ex­plainer video pro­mot­ing EA-themed effec­tive giv­ing ideas and meta-charities

Gleb_Tsipursky16 Oct 2016 22:44 UTC
−10 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

H+Pe­dia opens pro­jects and ed­i­to­rial portal

Deku-shrub16 Oct 2016 21:41 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(hpluspedia.org)

Video to in­duce hal­lu­ci­na­tions , meme im­plan­ter?

morganism16 Oct 2016 20:33 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(sciencebulletin.org)

Meetup : Zürich so­cial Ra­tion­al­ity meetup

Marko16 Oct 2016 9:52 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Melbourne So­cial Meetup: October

Maelin16 Oct 2016 5:53 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Con­trol and security

paulfchristiano15 Oct 2016 21:11 UTC
4 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Map and Ter­ri­tory: a new ra­tio­nal­ist group blog

Gordon Seidoh Worley15 Oct 2016 17:55 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Asymp­totic De­ci­sion Theory

gallabytes15 Oct 2016 2:42 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(gallabytes.com)

Re­duc­ing Risks of Astro­nom­i­cal Suffer­ing (S-Risks): A Ne­glected Global Priority

ignoranceprior14 Oct 2016 19:58 UTC
13 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(foundational-research.org)

Re­duc­ing Risks of Astro­nom­i­cal Suffer­ing (S-Risks): A Ne­glected Global Priority

ignoranceprior14 Oct 2016 19:56 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Bal­ti­more Area /​ UMBC Weekly Meetup

iarwain114 Oct 2016 16:39 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek14 Oct 2016 15:56 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

GiveWell: A case study in effec­tive al­tru­ism, part 1

philh14 Oct 2016 10:46 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Wikipe­dia book based on bet­ter­hu­mans’ ar­ti­cle on cog­ni­tive biases

Mati_Roy14 Oct 2016 1:03 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(en.wikipedia.org)

The map of agents which may cre­ate x-risks

turchin13 Oct 2016 11:17 UTC
3 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Ra­tion­al­ity Diary

rocurley13 Oct 2016 5:18 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Barack Obama’s opinions on near-fu­ture AI [Fixed]

scarcegreengrass12 Oct 2016 15:46 UTC
7 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(www.wired.com)

Barack Obama on Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence, Au­tonomous Cars, and the Fu­ture of Humanity

Lightwave12 Oct 2016 14:41 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.wired.com)

An at­tempt in lay­man’s lan­guage to ex­plain the metaethics se­quence in a sin­gle post.

Bound_up12 Oct 2016 13:57 UTC
2 points
93 comments1 min readLW link
(atheistkit.wordpress.com)

Barack Obama’s opinions on near-fu­ture AI

scarcegreengrass12 Oct 2016 13:44 UTC
1 point
9 comments1 min readLW link

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

RobinZ12 Oct 2016 0:02 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

MIRI AMA plus updates

Rob Bensinger11 Oct 2016 23:52 UTC
18 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Recom­men­da­tion] Steven Uni­verse & cryonics

tadrinth11 Oct 2016 16:21 UTC
13 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Rea­son­able Re­quire­ments of any Mo­ral Theory

TheSurvivalMachine10 Oct 2016 20:48 UTC
−2 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(vif.fitnessism.org)

Meetup : St. Peters­burg Weekly /​ Biweekly Meetup

AvImd10 Oct 2016 17:53 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open thread, Oct. 10 - Oct. 16, 2016

MrMind10 Oct 2016 7:00 UTC
7 points
157 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Stock­holm: Trig­ger-Ac­tion Plans

pepe_prime9 Oct 2016 21:27 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Biofuels a cli­mate mistake

morganism9 Oct 2016 21:16 UTC
7 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(theconversation.com)

Quan­tum Bayesianism

morganism8 Oct 2016 23:27 UTC
2 points
37 comments1 min readLW link
(en.wikipedia.org)

Viruses and DRACOs in the Valley of Death in med­i­cal re­search.

morganism8 Oct 2016 20:36 UTC
−2 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(www.inverse.com)

Six prin­ci­ples of a truth-friendly discourse

philh8 Oct 2016 16:56 UTC
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

The map of or­ga­ni­za­tions, sites and peo­ple in­volved in x-risks prevention

turchin7 Oct 2016 12:04 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Meetup : San Fran­cisco Meetup: Projects

rocurley7 Oct 2016 5:27 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly LW Meetups

FrankAdamek7 Oct 2016 3:58 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: Games Discussion

RobinZ7 Oct 2016 1:08 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Bal­ti­more Area /​ UMBC Weekly Meetup

iarwain17 Oct 2016 0:30 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Univer­sity of Cam­bridge Cen­tre for the Study of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk (CSER) is hiring!

crmflynn6 Oct 2016 16:53 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Log­i­cal in­duc­tor limits are dense un­der poin­t­wise convergence

SamEisenstat6 Oct 2016 8:07 UTC
5 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Pu­tanu­monit—Dis­card­ing em­pa­thy to save the world

Jacob Falkovich6 Oct 2016 7:03 UTC
14 points
38 comments1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

The­ory of an Im­moral Sentiment

Jacob Falkovich6 Oct 2016 5:55 UTC
6 points
1 comment12 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Meetup : Moscow: ra­tio­nal re­view, bias busters, Kol­mogorov and Jayes probability

berekuk5 Oct 2016 19:32 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Nick Bostrom says Google is win­ning the AI arms race

polymathwannabe5 Oct 2016 18:50 UTC
8 points
32 comments1 min readLW link
(www.newsweek.com)

law as moral guide

IAFF-User-1864 Oct 2016 22:41 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

Astro­biol­ogy III: Why Earth?

CellBioGuy4 Oct 2016 21:59 UTC
27 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Astro­biol­ogy III: Why Earth?

CellBioGuy4 Oct 2016 21:44 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Open thread, Oct. 03 - Oct. 09, 2016

MrMind3 Oct 2016 6:59 UTC
8 points
166 comments1 min readLW link

80% of data in Chi­nese clini­cal tri­als have been fabricated

DanArmak2 Oct 2016 7:38 UTC
11 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Cryo with mag­net­ics added

morganism1 Oct 2016 22:27 UTC
8 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Fermi para­dox of hu­man past, and cor­re­spond­ing x-risks

turchin1 Oct 2016 17:01 UTC
10 points
28 comments4 min readLW link

Oc­to­ber 2016 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsaris1 Oct 2016 14:05 UTC
10 points
20 comments1 min readLW link