Hello. Is it possible for the author to review this and possibly update it? It has been already 4 years. I wonder, if something changed.

Do you mean Monday or Tuesday? :)

Do you mean Monday or Tuesday? :)

Kotrfa never turned up but another LWer did and we had a nice discussion! When is next meeting? :)

On this meetup there was a guy from Ostrava. We exchanged numbers and emails and I promised that I will keep in touch. Unfortunately, my mobile phone crashed and I had to reinstall it, loosing my message history. I couldn't find him, since I do not remember the name. The only I remember is that he is doing his doctorate on VSB - FBI. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any name what would remind me him.

So if you are reading this, contact me!

Can I know to who and where the money for the book goes?

It worth to note one more thing - I'm not really skilled Bayesian and rationalist, but I do my best and I'm currently studying. So far I've finished HPMOR, An Abridged Introduction to Less Wrong and now I'm working on core sequences. There I've just finished Map and Territory.

So please post (1) the one article that you think newcomers should read, to maximize the chance that they read more; and (2) articles you think should be in the first ten articles that a newcomer reads.

The order in which I would have liked to be introduced to Less Wrong (introduction, wisdom, insight, education, excitement, novelty, fun):

Introduction

• Twelve Virtues of Rationality
• An interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky (Parts 1, 2 and 3)

Wisdom & Insight

• Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease
• Self-fulfilling correlations
• Probability is in the Mind
• You're Entitled to Arguments, But Not (That Particular) Proof
• Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others...
• Newcomb's Problem and Regret of Rationality
• Occam's Razor
• Confidence levels inside and outside an argument

Education

• An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes’ Theorem

Excitement, Novelty, Fun

• The Apologist and the Revolutionary
• Beyond the Reach of God
• The mathematical universe: the map that is the territory
• That Alien Message
• A Much Better Life?

More

• List of all articles from Less Wrong (In chronological order.)
• References & Resources for LessWrong

Hello.

I was searching more about my interests and I've found a opportunity has a nice Bachelor's topic in maths/informatics/neuroscience. I was offered two topics:

• Analyse properties of correlation matrix graphs (e.g small-world property)
• Conditional mutual information - how to detect synergy and which values it can takes when there is restriction on cardinality of given variables.

Both are connected with neuroscience (e.g the correlation matrix is created by brain activity, variables are activities of different parts of brain etc.)

Does anyone have any informations or advices to this?

By the first two bullet points, do you mean you want to form formalized models of naturalized induction?

I've written an essay on the effects of interactive computation as an improvement for Solomonoff-like induction. (It was written in two all-nighters for an English class, so it probably still needs proofreading. It isn't well-sourced, either.) Do you mean things like that? I want to form a better formalization of naturalized induction than Solomonoff induction, one designed to be usable by space-, time-, and rate-limited agents, and interactive computation was a necessary first step. AIXI is by no means an ideal inductive agent.

I very much want to be hired for work like this.