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Epistemic status: 90% confident. Inspiration: Arjun Narayan, Tyler Cowen. The noblest charity is to prevent a man from accepting charit

As many of you may be aware, the UK general election took place yesterday, resulting in a surprising victory for the Conservative Party. The

Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The rules are: - Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be upvoted or downv

From the BBC: [Hawking] told the BBC:"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." ... "It

One of my favourite Less Wrong articles is Politics is the mindkiller. Part of the reason that political discussion so bad is the poor incen

Dr. Aaron Sell recently wrote an interesting piece about political incentives and shoddy statistical work in science. In particular, he was

The finance professor John Cochrane recently posted an interesting blog post. The piece is about existential risk in the context of global w

The title may make it seem like it's mind-killing stuff (politics, religion, etc) but in fact it's about the different way people relate to