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Today, my paper "Is caviar a risk factor for being a millionaire?" was published in the Christmas Edition of the BMJ (formerly the British M

I certainly was not expecting the Economist to publish a special report on paperclip maximizers (!). See http://www.economist.com/news/spe

John Ioannidis has written a very insightful and entertaining article about the current state of the movement which calls itself "Evidence-B

(tl;dr: In this post, I make some concrete suggestions for LessWrong 2.0.) Less Wrong 2.0 A few months ago, Vaniver posted some ideas ab

Discussion article for the meetup : Palo Alto Meetup: Lightning Talks WHEN: 02 February 2016 06:30:00PM (-0800) WHERE: 3911 Grove A

Discussion article for the meetup : Palo Alto Meetup: Introduction to Causal Inference WHEN: 19 January 2016 06:30:00PM (-0800) WHE

Discussion article for the meetup : Palo Alto Meetup: The Economics of AI WHEN: 05 January 2016 06:30:00PM (-0800) WHERE: 3911 Grov

The Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS) is hiring post-docs for 2016/2017. The full announcement is available at http://me

(tl;dr: In this post I try to explain why I think the stopping rule of an experiment matters. It is likely that someone will find a flaw in