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A set of essays by Eliezer Yudkowsky that serve as a long-form introduction to formative ideas behind Less Wrong, the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, the Center for Applied Rationality, and substantial parts of the effective altruism community. The Codex contains essays about science, medicine, philosophy, politics, and futurism. (There’s also one post about hallucinatory cactus-people, but it’s not representative) In an Alternate Universe, Petunia married a scientist. Now Rationalist!Harry enters the wizarding world armed with Enlightenment ideals and the experimental spirit. Curated Posts
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[Event] Boston SSC Meetup Taymon Beal 3 points 27 Oct, 6:00 PM-9:00 PM GMT MIT Building 1, Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, USA Show Highlightsubdirectory_arrow_left perm_identity
[Event] Road to AI Safety (RAISE) Study Session 1 Evan_Gaensbauer4 3 points Today at 9:00 PMto Tomorrow at 12:00 AM Vancouver Public Library, Central Library, West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada Show Highlightsubdirectory_arrow_left perm_identity
[Event] Rational thinking discussion in Tokyo Razmęk Massaräinen 2 points 23 Oct, 10:15 AM-12:45 PM GMT Kajicho, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan Show Highlightsubdirectory_arrow_left perm_identity