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I need some help tracking down a quotation.  I'm pretty sure that it was an early 20th century philosopher - perhaps Russell.  He was explai

In several places in the sequences, Eliezer writes condescendingly about "Traditional Rationality".  The impression given is that Traditiona

This guy says that the problem is that high-school math education is structured to prepare people to learn calculus in their freshman year o

Larry Moran is a Canadian biochemist and textbook author who has a blog about evolutionary biology called The Sandwalk.  Recently he has bee

NPR has this story: The hacktivist group Anonymous is at it again. This time, it has humiliated an Internet security firm that threatened t

A child grows to become a young adult, goes off to attend college, studies moral philosophy, and then sells all her worldly possessions, giv

I just completed "Cryoburn", Lois McMaster Bujold's latest novel in the Vokosigan Saga series.  The subject is cryonics.  Our hero Miles i

Edit: Title change - may cause RSS resend. There is a widespread belief here that we pretty much have epistemic rationality nailed.  Instr