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Hi, I'm an entrepreneur looking for a startup idea. In my experience, the reason most startups fail is because they never actually solve a

Here's a puzzle based on something I used to be confused about: It is known that utility functions are equivalent (i.e. produce the same p

Here's a 32-minute presentation I made to provide an introduction to some of the core LessWrong concepts for a general audience: You Are A

I recently had the privilege of a 1-hour speaking slot at SPARC, a yearly two-week camp for top high school math students. Here's the vide

Salviati: Simplicio, do you think the Bitcoin markets are efficient? Simplicio: If you'd asked me two years ago, I would have said yes. I

This seems like an authoritative 25-year research project that the Atkins diet is pretty bad: http://www.nutritionj.com/content/11/1/40/ab

Hiring is so hard that we spent a man-month creating a sub-startup to do it. The product is the Quixey Challenge which is running today unti

We've posted about jobs at Quixey before: Quixey - startup applying LW-style rationality - hiring engineers Since then we've hired LessW

Quixey is a 2-year-old startup with a lot of ties to the rationalist community. Our product is an all-platform "functional search" engine fo

My startup, Quixey, is looking to hire a couple top-notch software engineers. Quixey is an early-stage stealth startup founded in October 20