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This article makes the claim that financial systems are opaque in order to help us overcome our risk aversion: Opacity is not something t

This paper discusses the Fermi Paradox in the context of civilizations that can build self-replicating probes (SRPs) to explore/exploit the

I came up with this puzzle after reading Vaniver's excellent post on the Value of Information. I enjoyed working it out over Thanksgiving an

I picked this up in the new Kahneman book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. He describes a common characteristic of reasoning heuristics: rather tha

(And somewhere in the back of his mind was a small, small note of confusion, a sense of something wrong about that story; and it should have

I'm in the process of searching for a new job. I'm currently employed, but I'm dissatisfied with my salary and career growth options. I've d

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/05/henry-markram-and-human-brain-project.html Henry Markram says the mysteries of the mind can be solved --

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