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Meetup : First LessWrong meetup in Leipzig!

Discussion article for the meetup : First LessWrong meetup in Leipzig! WHEN: 31 May 2017 01:00:00PM (+0200) WHERE: Deutsche Nationa

Elon Musk launches Neuralink, a venture to merge the human brain with AI

Could utility functions be for narrow AI only, and downright antithetical to AGI?

Could utility functions be for narrow AI only, and downright antithetical to AGI? That's a quite fundamental question and I'm kind of afraid

In-depth description of a quite strict, quite successful government program against teen substance abuse, spreading from Iceland

A different argument against Universal Basic Income

I grew up in socialist East Germany. Like most of my fellow citizens, I was not permitted to leave the country. But there was an important e

What degree of cousins are you and I? Estimates of Consanguinity to promote feelings of kinship and empathy

Epistemic status: Wild guesswork based on half-understood studies from way outside my field. More food for thought than trustworthy informat

Nick Bostrom's TED talk on Superintelligence is now online

http://www.ted.com/talks/nick_bostrom_what_happens_when_our_computers_get_smarter_than_we_are Artificial intelligence is getting smarter

3-day Solstice in Leipzig, Germany: small, nice, very low cost, includes accommodation, 19th-21st Dec

Hi everyone, like last year, we'll have a Secular Solstice in Leipzig, Germany. You're invited - message me if you'd like to attend. We

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

tl/dr: If we'd build a working self-replicating spacecraft, that'd prove we're past the Great Filter. Therefore, certainty we can do that wo

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

I have returned from a particularly fruitful Google search, with unexpected results. My question was simple. I was pretty sure that talkin