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Why We Reason is an excellent psychology blog that has a great deal of subject matter in common with Less Wrong. Some of the topics discusse

As you are probably aware, we have a new front page featuring a graphic of a brain. One of the links on the front page, "A source of edited

Link to full paper. Abstract (emphasis mine): How the human auditory system extracts perceptually relevant acoustic features of speech

Over the past few months I've been doing a lot of reading about cryonics, and though I agree with the arguments of Eliezer Yudkowsky and Rob

Inspired by: The 5-Second Level, Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People "I know I'm biased, but..." and its equivalents seem to be relativel

Eliezer recommends that we leave a line of retreat when discussing controversial topics, since this prevents scary propositions from cloudin

I currently live at the Pennsylvania State University, which is located in the relatively small city of State College, PA. Are there any Les

The BBC News recently ran an interesting piece on living forever. They discuss some of the standard arguments against cryonics and transhuma

The New York Times ran an editorial about an interesting type of cognitive bias: according to the article, the fact that our system of timek

Related to: Some of the discussion going on here In the LW version of Pascal's Mugging, a mugger threatens to simulate and torture people