I still haven't read most of the archive, and I'm reading slower than you're posting... So I'm going to second everyone who says a reduce posting rate is A-OK.

Knowing the name of my representative (Mike Honda btw) is not going to increase my political influence. I'd have to be chummy with him before he gave any serious weight to my opinion. All the congressman's question revealed was whether the people in his audience gave any thought to politics, not whether they could be effective politically if they tried.

As for voting, I see it as a waste of time to study issues which I have only a tiny probability of affecting. The best strategy I can see in this situation is to ask your most intelligent and unbiased friend how they're voting and then vote in advance to avoid standing in line. (To make this strategy work on a large scale, I should also spend time studying issues if all my friends say I'm their smartest and least biased friend. In this case my vote has a significantly higher probability of affecting the election, making my study worthwhile.)

As a rationalist, it might be worthwhile to take the one box just so those Omega know-it-alls will be wrong for once.

I don't even know what this blog is supposed to be about anymore.

I think we should rename it "Robin and Eliezers' Varied Thoughts".

I'm planning to come. Does "casual" mean "jeans and t-shirt" or "collared shirt and slacks"?

Here's a link to the Yahoo Yellow Pages with various types of restaurants near Montgomery Theater.

Does anyone who reads Overcoming Bias live in San Jose? If so, can you recommend a restaurant?

Richard, can you think of a better format than a round-table one? I imagine it might be difficult to find a room for people to mill around in.

BTW, there is an important difference between Eliezer and seed AI: Eliezer can't rewrite his own source code.

I'm volunteering to be a relatively pansy gatekeeper: I'll read everything you write, treat you courteously, offer counterarguments, and let you out if I'm convinced. Email john.maxwelliv at the email service Google hosts.

I can also be an AI.

It's not which measurement has the procedural error that matters. It's what you do when you discover it.

Alternatively, what should the robot do if it gets one measurement that's far different than all the others, and it doesn't know why?