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In case you haven't seen it yet, Quora hosted an interesting discussion of different strategies for containing / mitigating AI risk, boosted

The Big Orange Donate Button Traditional charities, like Oxfam, Greenpeace, and Amnesty International, almost all have a big orange button

EDIT: Apologies to anyone who wasted time with this; I did not intend it to go live. I left a draft post up on a computer that had an automa

This article has some interesting commentary on how humans might modify themselves to combat global warming, including the use of drugs that

Application of: How Much Evidence Does It Take? (trigger warning: some description of domestic violence) Summary: I discuss the strength

This discussion-level article is a handy place for people to share info about their recent donations, especially donations to unusually effi

Related to: Robin Hanson on Freakonomics DISCLAIMER: This is an exploration of a theoretical economics problem. This is not advice. I have

Discussion article for the meetup : San Francisco & Tortuga Go Surfing WHEN: 10 July 2011 06:39:31PM (-0700) WHERE: Nor Cal Surf Sh

Related to: Intellectual Hipsters, X-Rationality: Not So Great, The Importance of Self-Doubt, That Other Kind of Status, This is a schedul

Discussion article for the meetup : Marin & SF Less Wrong Make Things Go Boom WHEN: 05 July 2011 07:00:00PM (-0700) WHERE: Mel's Diner,