Meetup : Seattle Sequences group: Mysterious Answers 3

1 CBHacking 27 February 2015 07:54AM

Discussion article for the meetup : Seattle Sequences group: Mysterious Answers 3

WHEN: 02 March 2015 06:30:00PM (-0800)

WHERE: Paul G. Allen Center, 185 Stevens Way, Seattle, Washington 98195

Location is the UW CSE building, room 503. Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/347049138832243

This is a weekly meetup to discuss and work through the Sequences while getting to know other aspiring rationalists in the Seattle area. Each week's reading list is posted in the relevant Facebook event. We usually discuss the relevant sequence posts and sometimes learn applied rationality techniques.

As the name suggests, this meetup will go over the third part of the "Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions" sequence. We previously covered the "Map and territory" sequence. All are welcome to join, though, even if they've read all of the sequences already or haven't yet caught up to us.

There are often snacks at the meetup, which typically runs until around 9. After that, we go get dinner on the Ave.

Reading list:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/im/hindsight_devalues_science/

1.12 Hindsight Devalues Science

1.13 Fake Explanations

1.14 Guessing the Teacher's Password

1.15 Science as Attire

1.16 Fake Causality

1.17 Semantic Stopsigns

Discussion article for the meetup : Seattle Sequences group: Mysterious Answers 3

Meetup : Seattle Sequences group: Mysterious Answers 2

1 CBHacking 18 February 2015 07:42AM

Discussion article for the meetup : Seattle Sequences group: Mysterious Answers 2

WHEN: 23 February 2015 06:30:00PM (-0800)

WHERE: 185 Stevens Way,Seattle, Washington 98195

Location is the UW CSE building, room 503. Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1530831413847587/

This is a weekly meetup to discuss and work through the Sequences while getting to know other aspiring rationalists in the Seattle area. Each week's reading list is posted in the relevant Facebook event. As the name suggests, this meetup will go over the second part of the "Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions" sequence. We previously covered the "Map and territory" sequence. All are welcome to join, though, even if they've read all of the sequences already or haven't yet caught up to us.

There are often snacks at the meetup, which typically runs until around 9. After that, we go get dinner on the Ave.

Discussion article for the meetup : Seattle Sequences group: Mysterious Answers 2

Meetup : Seattle Sequences group: Mysterious Answers 1

1 CBHacking 12 February 2015 09:15AM

Discussion article for the meetup : Seattle Sequences group: Mysterious Answers 1

WHEN: 16 February 2015 06:30:00PM (-0800)

WHERE: 185 Stevens Way, Seattle, Washington 98195

Location is the Paul G. Allen center (CSE building) on UW campus, room 503. Details on Facebook at (should be visible without signing in) https://www.facebook.com/events/1552575281693265/

This is a weekly meetup to discuss and work through the Sequences while getting to know other aspiring rationalists in the Seattle area. Each week's reading list is posted in the relevant Facebook event. As the name suggests, this meetup will go over the first part of the "Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions" sequence. We previously covered the "Map and territory" sequence.All are welcome to join, though, even if they've read all of the sequences already or haven't yet caught up to us.

Discussion article for the meetup : Seattle Sequences group: Mysterious Answers 1

[link] Etzioni: AI will empower us, not exterminate us

4 CBHacking 11 December 2014 08:51AM

https://medium.com/backchannel/ai-wont-exterminate-us-it-will-empower-us-5b7224735bf3

(Slashdot discussion: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/12/10/1719232/ai-expert-ai-wont-exterminate-us----it-will-empower-us)

Not sure what the local view of Oren Etzioni or the Allen Institute for AI is, but I'm curious what people think if his views on UFAI risk. As far as I can tell from this article, it basically boils down to "AGI won't happen, at least not any time soon." Is there (significant) reason to believe he's wrong, or is it simply too great a risk to leave to chance?

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