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[Link] Terry Pratchett begins formal process to end his life

http://blastr.com/2011/06/terry-pratchett-begins-fo.php Another great mind that will be needlessly lost forever. :(

Open Thread, April 2011

It seems we have agreed that open threads will continue but that they will go in the Discussion section, so here's this month's thread.

Life hacks from the dark side

“So, Lone Starr, now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.” — Dark Helmet In a recent article, the unusually wel

[Video] AI Box Experiment on BBC's "Look Around You"

I recently discovered that "Look Around You", a BBC TWO educational science-themed series from the 1980s1, had on its "Computers" episode a

Study shows placebos can work even if you know it's a placebo

Placebo Effect Benefits Patients Even When They Knowingly Take a Fake Pill This is a little bit disturbing. (A kind of belief in belief, p

Link: "A Bayesian Take on Julian Assange"

From Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight: A Bayesian Take on Julian Assange.

(Some) Singularity Summit 2010 videos now up

Videos of some of the talks and panel discussions (currently eight twelve of them) from this year's Singularity Summit are now online. Mic

Are we more akratic than average?

Akrasia is a topic that shows up on LW very frequently. Is there evidence that this is related to any of the traits that correlate with LW p

If a tree falls on Sleeping Beauty...

Several months ago, we had an interesting discussion about the Sleeping Beauty problem, which runs as follows: Sleeping Beauty volunteers

Is cryonics evil because it's cold?

There have been many previous discussions here on cryonics and why it is perceived as threatening or otherwise disagreeable. Even among LWer