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Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules: - Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down sep

Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules:   - Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down

Alain de Botton: I once very politely raised the thought that one reason philosophy departments have been cut is the fault of philosopher

I'm probably succumbing to "guy with a hammer" syndrome in a big way, but here goes... From Jürgen Schmidhuber's "Compression Progress" ta

"Compression Progress: The Algorithmic Principle Behind Curiosity and Creativity": (full transcript with time stamps emailed to Louie Helm

Interesting corollary to Tyler Cowen's TED talk: Models this complex -- whether of cellular biology, the weather, the economy, even highw

This, apparently: You can answer many seemingly difficult questions quickly. You are often confident that something is true long befo

From Wikipedia: "The planet's radius is roughly 2.4 times the radius of Earth; it is 600 light years away from Earth, in orbit around the

I've been sitting on a list of potential discussion posts for awhile.  I want them to stop being potential and start being actual.  Do any o

The recent popularity/controversy of articles such as Alicorn's Polyhacking and of course lukeprog's Rationality and Relationships (preceded