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Discussion article for the meetup : Glasgow (Scotland) Meetup WHEN: 16 November 2014 03:30:00PM (+0000) WHERE: Curler's Rest, 256-2

Here's a poser that occurred to us over the summer, and one that we couldn't really come up with any satisfactory solution to. The people wh

We have been at Rationality Boot Camp for nearly a week (Jasen has decided it should be renamed "megacamp", but since everyone here has prob

At the recent London meet-up someone (I'm afraid I can't remember who) suggested that one might be able to solve the Friendly AI problem by

In Luke's recent post on what sort of posts we would like to see more of, one suggestion was "Open Thread: Math". This suggestion has been v

From the article: Billions of dollars are given and spent on aid and development by individuals and companies each year. Despite this genero

This is my first attempt at an elementary statistics post, which I hope is suitable for Less Wrong. I am going to present a discussion of a

According to the New Scientist, Daryl Bern has a paper to appear in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, which claims that the part

There has been a lot of discussion on LW about finding better decision theories. A lot of the reason for the various new decision theories p

Everyone knows that eating fatty foods is bad for you, that high cholesterol causes heart disease and that we should all do some more exerci