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Something that I don't think I've seen discussed here is the threat posed by an AI which is smarter than we are when it comes to computer se

This site often speaks of rationality and intelligence as though they were the same thing, and that someone, by becoming more rational, beco

This is our monthly thread for collecting arbitrarily contrived scenarios in which somebody gets tortured for 3^^^^^3 years, or an infinite

The social bookmarking site metafilter has a sister site called metatalk, which works the same way but is devoted entirely to talking about

Lore Sjöberg's Life-hacking FAQK Pretty self-explanatory. Also available as a podcast.

This is a commentary by Linda Gottfredson on a paper by Hunt and Carlson about a paper by Richard Nisbett regarding studies done by Arthur J

One day, you and the presumptuous philosopher are walking along, arguing about the size of the universe, when suddenly Omega jumps out from