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Of course, it turns out they're actually last among developed nations in real health outcomes. The U.S. ranks #1 among 17 affluent, weste

When I first learned about Friendly AI, I assumed it was mostly a programming problem. As it turns out, it's actually mostly a math problem.

For those of you interested, András Kornai's paper "Bounding the impact of AGI" from this year's AGI-Impacts conference at Oxford had a few

Today we're announcing a partnership with Castify to bring you Less Wrong content in audio form. Castify gets blog content read by professio

It usually isn't profitable to pay attention to science news, since science journalists largely misintrepret new "breakthroughs". But I am s

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The Singularity Institute is hiring an executive assistant for Executive Director Luke Muehlhauser. Right now his limiter (besides the nee

** cross-posted from http://singinst.org/2011winterfundraiser/ ** Contains detailed info about accomplishments and plans at SI. Thanks for

There's still time left to register for the Singularity Summit in New York. But hurry because there are only a few weeks left! Register no

For those in the California bay area, I thought I'd post some details about the upcoming Foresight conference. [email protected] 25th Anniv