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Acknowledgement: This idea is essentially the same as something mentioned in a podcast where Julia Galef interviews Jason Brennan. You are

You are at a casino. You have $1. A table offers you a game: you have to bet all your money; a fair coin will be tossed; if it lands heads,

This is the question asked by John Cook on Twitter. He lists responses from different people: - R - Version control - Linear algebra -

Here is an experience that I often have: I'm walking down the street, perfectly content and all of a sudden some memory pops into my stream

Warning: Rather obvious things will be said below. (EDIT: May not be so obvious after all. Sorry.) The capabilities approach is an importa

Here is an interesting exercise. Whenever, you have a 'should' statement, see if you can change it to a 'can' statement, and notice being mo

Does the surveillance state affect us? It has affected me, and I didn't realize that it was affecting me until recently. I give a few exampl

I'm a theoretical physics (quantum computing) grad student. I really like what I do, and would like to continue doing it for a long time.