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I work at a small but feisty research team whose focus is biomedical informatics, i.e. mining biomedical data. Especially anonymized hospita

Let's suppose you start with $1000 to invest, and the only thing you can invest it in is stock ABC. You are only permitted to occupy two sta

Imagine you had the following at your disposal: - A Ph.D. in a biological science, with a fair amount of reading and wet-lab work under yo

In an unrelated thread, one thing led to another and we got onto the subject of overpopulation and carrying capacity. I think this topic nee

Update: Thanks everyone for the continuing thought-provoking discussion. I intend to post my decision spreadsheet, and still am looking for

This morning I found what I think is an interesting way to explain rationalizing to my son, and I thought I'd share it: - Physical reality

Let's say Bob's terminal value is to travel back in time and ride a dinosaur. It is instrumentally rational for Bob to study physics so he

It seems to me that most AI researchers on this site are patternists in the sense of believing that the anti-zombie principle necessarily im

Supposing you have been recruited to be the main developer on an AI project. The previous developer died in a car crash and left behind an u