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From Jonathan Haidt: A site that lets you "experience different viewpoints"

This is a linkpost for http://heterodoxacademy.org/resources/viewpoint-diversity-experience/

Boundedly Rational Patients? Health and Patient Mistakes in a Behavioral Framework

Review of "The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds," Michael Lewis' book about Kahneman & Tversky

This is a linkpost for http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/04/20/kahneman-tversky-invisible-mind-manipulators/

[Link] Review of "Doing Good Better"

The article is here. The book is by William MacAskill, founder of 80000 Hours and Giving What We Can. Excerpt: Effective altruism takes

[LINK] Amanda Knox exonerated

Here are the New York Times, CNN, and NBC. Here is Wikipedia for background. The case has made several appearances on LessWrong; examples

[Link] How to see into the future (Financial Times)

How to see into the future, by Tim Harford The article may be gated. (I have a subscription through my school.) It is mainly about two t

LINK: "This novel epigenetic clock can be used to address a host of questions in developmental biology, cancer and aging research."

The paper is called DNA methylation age and human tissues and cell types and it's from Genome Biology. Here is a Nature article based on the

[link] Betting on bad futures

Garett Jones, an economist at George Mason University and guest blogger for EconLog, suggests a way for people to bet on apocalyptic events:

[link] One-question survey from Robin Hanson

As many of you probably know, Robin Hanson is writing a book, and it will be geared toward a popular audience. He wants a term that encompas

Robot ethics [link]

The Economist has a new article on ethical dilemmas faced by machine designers. Evidently: 1. In the event of an immoral decision by a m