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This puzzled me. I'm pretty sure it's one of those unsolvable questions, but I'd want to know if it's not. Two members of the species Homo

This is an idea that just occurred to me. We have a large community of people who think about scientific problems recreationally, many of wh

[This is a draft intended to be developed into a top-level post - it wouldn't feel wrong to make it such right now, but it wouldn't quite fe

I'm planning a top-level post (probably two or three or more) on when agent utility should not be part of utilitarian calculations - which s

There are few places where society values rational, objective decision making as much as it values it in judges. While there is a rather cyn

From the NYTimes. The central point:   Humans, he argues, are hard-wired to reject scientific conclusions that run counter to their ins

[This is from a very neat example my real analysis professor used some years ago. While I'm fairly confident it's neat, I'm not certain it's

Tangential followup to Defeating Ugh Fields in Practice. Somewhat related to Privileging the Hypothesis. Edited to add: I'm surprised by n

Unsurprisingly related to: Ugh fields. If I had to choose a single piece of evidence off of which to argue that the rationality assumption

A little while ago, I argued with a friend of mine over the efficiency of the Chinese government. I admitted he was clearly better informed