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As I understand it, there is a phenomenon among transgender people where no matter what they do they can't help but ask themselves the quest

(I, the author, no longer endorse this article. I find it naive in hindsight.)   Recall the following template: In some cases, human

Related: Leave a Line of Retreat When I was smaller, I was sitting at home watching The Mummy, with my mother, ironically enough. There's

Related: GiveWell's Increasing the Supply of Organs for Transplantation in the U.S. (Content warning: organs, organ trade, transplantation. 

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(Content note: A common suggestion for debiasing hindsight: try to think of many alternative historical outcomes. But thinking of too many e

(Content note: The experimental results on the availability bias, one of the biases described in Tversky and Kahneman's original work, have

This is part of a semi-monthly reading group on Eliezer Yudkowsky's ebook, Rationality: From AI to Zombies. For more information about the g

The following is an excerpt of an exchange between Julia Galef and Massimo Pigliucci, from the transcript for Rationally Speaking Podcast ep