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There's a semi-famous paper by Dunn, Gilbert and Wilson: "If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right". (Pro

There have been a couple of brief discussions of this in the Open Thread, but it seems likely to generate more so here's a place for it. T

This article by Shivon Zilis on O'Reilly's website may be of interest. There's essentially no technical content (I think the author is a fin

The excellent Scott Aaronson has posted on his blog a version of a talk he recently gave at SPARC, about Aumann's agreement theorem and rela

This is the public group rationality diary for March 22 - April 4, 2015. Here's the usual summary of what it's about: It's a place t

This is the public group rationality diary for March 1-21, 2015. It seems to be traditional to put a jokily defensive remark about downvotin

If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here. Notes for future OT posters: 1. Please add

Executive summary: The practice of giving a fixed fraction of one's income to charity is near-universal but possibly indefensible. I describ

To whoever has for the last several days been downvoting ~10 of my old comments per day: It is possible that your intention is to discoura