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Astronomical research has what may be an under-appreciated role in helping us understand and possibly avoiding the Great Filter. This post w

In 2012, a large amount of attention was given to the OPERA experiment's apparent sighting of faster than light neutrinos. This turned out t

The recent implementation of a -5 karma penalty for replying to comments that are at -3 or below has clearly met with some disagreement and

There's a recent paper(PDF) which finds that people who don't know much about a problem are more inclined to not find out more about that p

Progeria is a very rare disease which causes children to undergo symptoms extremely similar to rapid aging, and generally dying before the a

Tonight the Discovery Channel had on their Curiosity series  a program hosted by Adam Savage (of Mythbusters) on whether or not we could liv

One serious issue for evaluating existential risk is working out whether most of the Great Filter is behind us or in front of us. This relat

We've discussed Edward Nelson's beliefs and work before. Now, he claims to have a proof of a contradiction in Peano Arithmetic; which if c

The EFF has stopped accepting Bitcoins primarily out of concern with the possible legal issues. I presume that the EFF has a better underst

There's a problem that has occurred to me that I haven't seen discussed anywhere: I don't think people actually wants to assign zero probabi