Meetup: Bay Area: Sunday, March 7th, 7pm

6 JustinShovelain 02 March 2010 09:18PM

Overcoming Bias / Less Wrong meetup in the San Francisco Bay Area at SIAI House on March 7th, 2010, starting at 7PM.

Eliezer Yudkowsky, Alicorn, and  Michael Vassar will be present.

Some other extra guests - Wei Dai, Stuart Armstrong, and Nick Tarleton - will be also be there, following our short Decision Theory mini-workshop.

The Last Days of the Singularity Challenge

19 Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 February 2010 03:46AM

From Michael Anissimov on the Singularity Institute blog:

Thanks to generous contributions by our donors, we are only $11,840 away from fulfilling our $100,000 goal for the 2010 Singularity Research Challenge. For every dollar you contribute to SIAI, another dollar is contributed by our matching donors, who have pledged to match all contributions made before February 28th up to $100,000. That means that this Sunday is your final chance to donate for maximum impact.

Funds from the challenge campaign will be used to support all SIAI activities: our core staff, the Singularity Summit, the Visiting Fellows program, and more. Donors can earmark their funds for specific grant proposals, many of which are targeted towards academic paper-writing, or just contribute to our general fund

[Continue reading at the Singularity Institute blog.]

Lesswrong UK planning thread

5 whpearson 24 January 2010 12:33AM

A few of us got together in the pub after the friendly AI meet and agreed we should have a meetup for those of us familiar with lesswrong/bostrom etc. This is a post for discussion of when/where.

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Meetup: Bay Area: Jan 15th, 7pm

2 Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 January 2010 10:02PM

Singularity Institute $100K Challenge Grant / 2009 Donations Reminder

14 Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 December 2009 12:36AM

In case you missed the notice at the SIAI Blog, the Singularity Institute's next Challenge Grant is now running - $100,000 of matching funds for all donations until February 28th, 2010.  If you want your donation to be tax-deductible in the U.S. for 2009, donations postmarked by December 31st will be counted for this tax year.

Positive-affect-day-Schelling-point-mas Meetup

4 Marcello 23 December 2009 07:41PM

There will be a LessWrong Meetup on the Friday December 25th (day after tomorrow.)  We're meeting at 6:00 PM at Pan Tao Restaurant at 1686 South Wolfe Road, Sunnyvale, CA the SIAI House in Santa Clara, CA for pizza or whatever else we can figure out how to cook.  Consider it an available refuge if you haven't other plans.

Please comment if you plan to show up!

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Call for new SIAI Visiting Fellows, on a rolling basis

29 AnnaSalamon 01 December 2009 01:42AM

Last summer, 15 Less Wrongers, under the auspices of SIAI, gathered in a big house in Santa Clara (in the SF bay area), with whiteboards, existential risk-reducing projects, and the ambition to learn and do.

Now, the new and better version has arrived.  We’re taking folks on a rolling basis to come join in our projects, learn and strategize with us, and consider long term life paths.  Working with this crowd transformed my world; it felt like I was learning to think.  I wouldn’t be surprised if it can transform yours.

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Philadelphia LessWrong Meetup, December 16th

3 Peter_de_Blanc 16 December 2009 03:13AM

There will be a LessWrong meetup on Wednesday, December 16th (tomorrow). We're meeting at 7:15 PM at Kabul Restaurant at 106 Chestnut Street. Five people have confirmed so far.