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Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules: - Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down sep

People on this board have talked about programming as a gear in your brain that, to a first approximation, you have or you don't. I'm wonder

Just returned from this year's Bayesian Conspiracy camp at Burning Man. We encountered a lot of cool burners who read this blog, and I thoug

Planned top-level post -- any feedback very much welcome.   Obviously a followup to: On the Care and Feeding of Young Rationalists My v

The researchers aren't entirely sure why speaking in a less familiar tongue makes people more "rational", in the sense of not being affected

Reddit Enhancement Suite If anyone cares, I could probably port this to work on LW without too much trouble. Optimistically it'd just invo

Takeaway seems to be: stay light on your feet; keep everything in the short term, but build habits that will serve you in the long term; mak

This was originally going to be a comment on Zvi's excellent "How I Lost 100 Pounds Using TDT", but it ran rather long, so I expanded it to

We used to have a monthly off-topic thread for stuff rationalists might like to talk about that really has no bearing on rationality. Here's

My friend and housemate, User:Kevin, makes a very pleasant living selling opioids on the internet, a living he expects to continue for some