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Scott, known on LessWrong as Yvain, recently wrote a post complaining about an inaccurate rape statistic. Arthur Chu, who is notable for w

Discussion article for the meetup : Inaugural Canberra meetup WHEN: 12 February 2014 07:30:00PM (-0800) WHERE: CSIT Building, Acton

I've just gotten to the end of Udacity's CS262 course in programming languages. It's been pretty good. Wes Weimer, the lecturer, seems to be

At a startup camp weekend, I've made this (incredibly sketchy, amateurish) app (NSFW) which implements classical conditioning to create a ne

I'm friends with an incredibly smart kid. He's 14, but has been put up three grades in school at one point. He does all the obvious enrichme

I'm doing an undergraduate course on the Free Will Theorem, with three lecturers: a mathematician, a physicist, and David Chalmers as the ph

I'm participating in a university course on free will. On the online forum, someone asked me to summarise Eliezer's solution to the free wil

I'm looking for hard philosophical questions to give to people to gauge their skill at philosophy. So far, I've been presenting people wit

As humans, finding out facts that we would rather not be true is unpleasant. For example, I would dislike finding out that my girlfriend wer

I won a prize and get to travel to Perth, Australia to attend the 2012 ICONN nanotechnology conference. Is anyone else from LessWrong goin