An interesting summary of tools for gently influencing human behavior (at scale). 

http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/-/media/Files/Programs-and-Areas/behavioural-economics/Nudging%20Around%20The%20World_Sep2013.pdf

Coursera is running this shortly. 
https://www.coursera.org/course/globaldiseasecontrol

Should be interesting to the folks interested in effective altruism here.

One of the biggest benefits of LW for me, aside from specific discussions, has been finding high-quality learning resources. Since knowledge is pretty much the biggest power humans have and many of us spend a lot of time learning, learning more efficiently is extremely important - a good textbook vs. a bad one can cost a lot of time and quite probably make some of the area inaccessible.

We've had a number of threads in that direction, e.g. this

http://lesswrong.com/lw/3gu/the_best_textbooks_on_every_subject/

http://lesswrong.com/lw/g9l/course_recommendations_for_friendliness/

plus crumbs in the monthly media threads.

The proposal is to have these discussions periodically, especially with the great influx of top-notch full online courses from the best schools via coursera, edx, udacity, etc. After that we can wikify some of the more stable recommendations and link the wiki back to the discussions.

Please use this thread for meta-discussion, not specific recommendations. The big questions are should we have this periodically yes/no, what the period should be, at least initially and other helpful suggestions.

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg80472.html

Prominently mentioned in
http://lesswrong.com/lw/w8/engelbart_insufficiently_recursive/

"Pretty simple" algorithm playing games quite impressively.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOCurBYI_gY

First, this is awesome - enjoy!

Paper here http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/mario/mario.pdf

One interesting observation made by Tom Murphy is that the AI found and exploited playable bugs in the game not (commonly) known to human players. I think it's a good example to have available suggesting what a really smart AI might look for to win.

http://yucsc.com/ey.aspx

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/02/04/four-hours-of-concentration/

And since this is the Internet, and facts are involved, our gwern turns up there also.

http://appliedrationality.org/fundraising/

(interested in hearing how other donors frame allocation between SI and CFAR)

http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/22/3535518/singularity-rapture-of-the-nerds-gods-end-human-race

Lecture is titled "The Mechanization of Causal Inference: A “mini” Turing Test and Beyond"

Includes basic overview of the subject and Judea's estimate of "how it's going" (I think there are some obvious implications to the AI issues discussed here)

http://amturing.acm.org/vp/pearl_2658896.cfm