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We'll be organizing a meetup of LW Paris at "Palais de la Découverte" in order to view the exhibit on LHC (link in French, sorry) and speak

Discussion article for the meetup : Paris LW Meetup - LHC Exhibit WHEN: 17 January 2015 02:00:00PM (+0100) WHERE: Palais de la Déco

Followup to : Is risk aversion really irrational? After reading the decision theory FAQ and re-reading The Allais Paradox I realized I sti

First, a short personal note to make you understand why this is important to me. To make a long story short, the son of a friend has some at

The sad news broke tonight : Neil Armstrong, the first human to ever walk another world, died today. We lost him forever. He died before we

This article http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-kessler/why-you-should-be-more-interested-in-mars-than-the-olympics_b_1712462.html -- ok,

The newspaper "Le Monde" made an interesting exercise for rationalists in the context of the French election. They first made a classical

Disclaimer: this started as a comment to Risk aversion vs. concave utility function but it grew way too big so I turned it into a full-blown

Hello Less Wrongers. I'm still relatively new to the LW community, but I would like to share with you a few comments and ideas for making

Introduction It is common knowledge that many artists have used drugs (alcohol, opiates, cannabis, LSD, ...) and that this account for par