LESSWRONG

EDIT: I see by the karma bombing we can't even ask.  Why even call this part of the site "discussion?"     Some of the classic questions

http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/walker/walker12.html Came across it pretty randomly, I found it quite intriguing.  Cryonics is "routine"

More of a Robin Hanson thing than a lesswrong thing, but these are sister blogs (sibling blogs?) and Robin's has no forum for discussion. 

If I click on a users name it brings me to a page like lukeprog's.  In the upper right of that page I see lukeprog's karma score, and I also

EDIT at Karma -5: Could the next "good citizen" to vote this down leave me a comment as to why it is getting voted down, and if other "good

EDIT: 1:19 PM PST 22 December 2010 I completed this post.  I didn't realize an uncompleted version was already posted earlier.   I wanted

So you think its important to be able to estimate how well you are estimating something?  Here is a fun test that has been given to plenty o