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After a bit of brief research, I still have no idea how willpower depletion actually works, or if I'm mistaking depletion for distraction, e

Similar to the Crazy Ideas Thread and Diaspora Roundup Thread, I thought I'd try making a General-Purpose Questions Thread.   The purpos

The Setup I'm about a third of the way through Stanovich's Decision Making and Rationality in the Modern World.  Basically, I've gotten th

So I'm going through the sequences (in AI to Zombies) and I get to the bit about Asch's Conformity Experiment.   It's a good bit of writ

I'll make this short and sweet. I've been reading Dawkin's The Selfish Gene, and it's been really helpful filling in some of the gaps I ha

Imagine that you were instantly transported into (roughly) the 13th century.  I'm not great at history, but I'm picturing sometime around th

Recently, I've been pondering situations in which a person realizes, with (let's say) around 99% confidence, that they are going to die with

I've only recently joined the LessWrong community, and I've been having a blast reading through posts and making the occasional comment.  So