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I was a bit surprised to find this week's episode of Elementary was about AI...  not just AI and the Turing Test, but also a fairly even-han

In the holiday spirit, here's a comic that many LWers may appreciate...  and perhaps even find useful for illustrating a certain, ah, topic:

If you've ever wanted a quick way to explain the Typical Mind Fallacy, this cartoon by Winston Rowntree will do the trick nicely. (Panel 3

There seems to be something odd about how people reason in relation to themselves, compared to the way they examine problems in other domain

Abstract: This article proposes a hypothesis that effective anti-akrasia methods operate by reducing or eliminating the activation of confli

(From the "humans are crazy" and "truth is stranger than fiction" departments...) Want to be happy?  Try eating dirt... or at least dirty

This paper (PDF)1 looks more than a little interesting: Past research indicates that self-control relies on some sort of limited energy s

(Since there didn't seem to be one for this month, and I just ran across a nice quote.) A monthly thread for posting any interesting ratio

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