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Home appliances, such as washing machines, are apparently much less durable now than they were decades ago. [ETA: Thanks to commenters for p

AnnaSalamon's recent post on "flinching" and "buckets" nicely complements PhilGoetz's 2009 post Reason as memetic immune disorder. (I'll be

I've always been puzzled by why so many people have such strong intuitions about whether the A-theory or the B-theory1 of time is true.  [ET

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

This article discusses how upvotes and downvotes influence the quality of posts on online communities.  The article claims that downvotes le

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

David Chapman criticizes "pop Bayesianism" as just common-sense rationality dressed up as intimidating math[1]: Bayesianism boils down to “d

Today's post, Your Strength as a Rationalist, was originally published on 11 August 2007. A summary (taken from the LW wiki): A hypothesis t

I've written up a 2-page explanation and proof of Aumann's agreement theorem.  Here is a direct link to the pdf via Dropbox.  The document i

Today's post, The Apocalypse Bet, was originally published on 09 August 2007. A summary (taken from the LW wiki): If you think that the apoc