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This is a linkpost for http://www.stafforini.com/blog/bostrom/

Arrogance is an interesting topic. Let's imagine we have two people who are having a conversation. One of them is an professor in quantum

There seems to actually be real momentum behind this attempt as reviving Less Wrong. One of the oldest issues on LW has been the lack of con

In order to get a solid handle on a proposal, it isn't enough to just know what the world will look like if you adopt the proposal. It is al

As rationalists, we like to focus on substance over style. This is a good habit; unfortunately, most of the public will swallow extremely po

This is a linkpost for http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nonidentity-problem/#WroLif

George Bernard Shaw wrote that, "the single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place". Much of strawmanning

ohn_Maxwell_IV argued that revitalising Less Wrong is a lost purpose. I'm also very skeptical about Less Wrong 2.0 - but I wouldn't agree wi

Once upon a time the countries of Alpago and Byzantine had a war. Alpago was mostly undamaged during this war. Byzantine was severely damage