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The whole paper is here.  In short, they found a genotype that predicts people's response to the original trolley problem: A trolley (i.e

Below is a sketch of a moral anti-realist position based on the map-territory distinction, Hume and studies of psychopaths. Hopefully it is

Admins have been doing a decent, timely job taking down the spam that comes up in the Discussion section. But it is an eyesore for any perio

For a community that endorses Bayesian epistemology we have had surprisingly few discussions about the most famous Bayesian contribution to

This idea is so obvious I can't believe we haven't done it before. Many people here have posts they would like to write but keep procrastina

Open discussion. I think my dog is about to die. Even if I thought it was worth it I don't have the money to freeze her. But I am curious

You know what to do. This thread is for the discussion of Less Wrong topics that have not appeared in recent posts. If a discussion gets u

Summary: This color alters your perception of the world. Evidence that it does, how it does, why it does and some implications are presented

A tenet of traditional rationality is that you can't learn much about the world from armchair theorizing. Theory must be epiphenomenal to ob