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What does an memetic infection look like? Well, you would encounter something (probably on the internet) that seems very compelling. You thi

Eric Floehr has a business that "holds a mirror up" to weather forecasters, and aggregates and evaluates forecasters for weather forecast co

If you want to carry a brimming cup of coffee without spilling it, you may want to "change" your goal to instead primarily concentrate on hu

Jonah Lehrer wrote about the (surprising?) power of publication bias. http://m.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_lehrer?cur

Background on Agorics: The idea of software agents cooperating in an open market or "agora". Described by Mark Miller and Eric Drexler her

The number of meetup announcements on the main blog has been increasing. Though it's reasonable to try to get meetups high visibility to inc

There is a game studied in Philosophy of Science and Probably Approximately Correct (machine) learning. It's a cousin to the Looney Labs gam

This is a report from a LessWrong perspective, on the 30th Soar workshop. Soar is a cognitive architecture that has been in continuous devel

Stigmergy is a notion that an agent's behavior is sometimes best understood as coordinated by the agent's environment. In particular, social

(Note: This is essentially a rehash/summarization of Jordan Sobel's Lotteries and Miracles - you may prefer the original.) George Mavrode