This post is now available on my blog, where I can keep it updated. —Pablo (April 2021)
With Wikipedia showing increasing signs of ideological uniformity, I thought I should try to diversify my consumption of reference material. A potentially very useful tool for this purpose would be a "meta-encyclopedia", i.e. a place where users can find a list of all existing encyclopedia entries on a given topic....
Discussion article for the meetup : Fifth Buenos Aires LessWrong meetup WHEN: 09 August 2014 04:00:00PM (-0300) WHERE: Roseti 1380, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina This will be our fifth Buenos Aires LessWrong meetup. On this occasion, Pablo will give a brief introductory presentation about effective altruism, followed by discussion....
Why Psychologists’ Food Fight Matters: Important findings” haven’t been replicated, and science may have to change its ways. By Michelle N. Meyer and Christopher Chabris. Slate, July 31, 2014. [Via Steven Pinker's Twitter account, who adds: "Lesson for sci journalists: Stop reporting single studies, no matter how sexy (these are...
Vincent Müller and Nick Bostrom have just released a paper surveying the results of a poll of experts about future progress in artificial intelligence. The authors have also put up a companion site where visitors can take the poll and see the raw data. I just checked the site and...
Nick Beckstead just published a post on disaster shelters over at the Effective Altruism Blog. Summary: > What is the problem? Civilization might not recover from some possible global catastrophes. Conceivably, people with access to disaster shelters or other refuges may be more likely to survive and help civilization recover....
Link > A large international group set up to test the reliability of psychology experiments has successfully reproduced the results of 10 out of 13 past experiments. The consortium also found that two effects could not be reproduced. > To tackle this 'replicability crisis', 36 research groups formed the Many...