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I have recently come across a very practical example of a kind of "tragedy of the commons" - the unwillingness to invest in assets that bene

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/under.htm?2. 15-30 min read time, rated "pretty good" by me.   There are a couple of interesting f

I read an interesting article today: ["Your app makes me fat"](http://seriouspony.com/blog/2013/7/24/your-app-makes-me-fat). Key quote: "R

I am very curious what will come out of this. Does Kurzweil really have some insightful ideas that will help advance AI? He used to be quite

If it is... I hope they do not crash the system with the test. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/12/12/physicists-universe-simulation-t

This rather serious report should be of interest to LW. It argues that autonomous robotic weapons which can kill a human without an explicit

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0041812 Here is a rather curious paper describing psychology researchers' att

http://www.nih.gov/news/health/mar2012/nimh-29.htm has images of human and monkey brain scans which reveal an amazingly grid-like pattern of

The Age, one of the most widely read Australian newspapers, has published an article on "the Singularity". Mostly features Jaan Tallinn, but

Here is  presentation from a researcher at MIT on a novel way of designing computer processors. It relies on performing approximate, rather