Dec 28, 2020
https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/12/23/we-are-all-msscribe/
AskReddit asked recently: If you could only give an alien one thing to help them understand the human race, what would you give them?
At the time I had no good answer. Now I do. I would give them Charlotte Lennox’s write-up of how MsScribe took over Harry...
Dec 20, 2020
https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/28/why-were-early-psychedelicists-so-weird/
[Epistemic status: very speculative, asserted with only ~30% confidence. On the other hand, even though psychiatrists don’t really talk about this it’s possible other groups know this all already]
A few weeks ago I gave a presentation...
Dec 13, 2020
https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/13/evil-is-anti-inductive/
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A recent Cracked piece: Five Everyday Groups Society Says It’s Okay To Mock. It begins:
There’s a rule in comedy that says you shouldn’t punch down. It’s okay to make fun of someone rich and famous, because they’re too busy molesting groupies...
Dec 8, 2020
Stuart Russell is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering, and Director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI. His book "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" (with Peter Norvig) is the standard text in AI, used in 1500...
Dec 6, 2020
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A sample of Thursday’s talk at Yale
These are four headlines describing the same study, Milkie, Nomaguchi and Denny (2015). The study found that of twenty or so outcomes, only three of them – all measuring delinquent behavior among teenagers – show significant effect from time...
