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We have a tradition of treating ruthlessness in businesspeople as something of a virtue. Certainly, ruthlessness can help one get ahead in t

We seem to have at least one bot editing the Less Wrong Wiki. Is this something that could easily be fixed by instituting a karma requiremen

When attempting to introduce non-rationalists to the ideas of cryonics or Strong AI, it appears that their primary objections tend to be roo

Open to anyone, single or otherwise. What do you look for in a relationship? A few questions to narrow down the responses:   1: What t

Inspired by Don't Plan For the Future. For the purposes of discussion on this site, a Friendly AI is assumed to be one that shares our ter

In the comments of a recent thread, another poster pointed out that religious individuals tend to report higher levels of happiness than non

I've long entertained a dubious regard for the practice of lying to children about the existence of Santa Claus. Parents might claim that it

The trolley problem is one of the more famous thought experiments in moral philosophy, and studies by psychologists and anthropologists sugg

Some time ago, I had a talk with my father where I explained to him the concept of the broken window fallacy. The idea was completely novel

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