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Carol puts her left hand in a bucket of hot water, and lets it acclimate for a few minutes.  Meanwhile her right hand is acclimating to a bu

To the extent that desires explain behavior, it is primarily by meshing with beliefs to favor particular actions.  For example, if I desire

"Hi," said Galaxy, "Are you Fuller Chen?  I'm here to see your 2018 Chevy SS.  Is it still for sale?" "Sure," Fuller replied, "let me open

Hannes Rusch argues that the Prisoner's Dilemma is best understood as merely one game of very many: only 2 of the 726 combinatorially pos

Mechanical Engineering magazine (paywalled until next month) and Financial Times, among others, recently reviewed the book Race Against the