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Cross posted from my blog, Selfish Meme. I’d like to humbly propose a new virtue to add to Eliezer’s virtues of rationality — the virtue

I've been trying my hand at card counting lately, and I've been doing some thinking about how a perfect gambler would act at the table. I'm

This question exists in the awkward space between "things undergrads google for homework" and "things on the cutting edge," so google isn't

As a part of my job, I recently created an econometric model. My boss wants someone to look over the math before its submitted internally th

I couldn't find the math for the quantum suicide and immortality thought experiment, so I'm placing it here for posterity. If one actually r

Fifteen thousand years ago, our ancestors bred dogs to serve man. In merely 150 centuries, we shaped collies to herd our sheep and pekingese