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Mathematical talent is so useful, and so few have it. I hope genetic interventions will help in this next century.

Both the Schrodinger equation and inflationary cosmology predict alternate worlds filled with alternate yous. MWI refers to the former. The author of this piece is talking about th…

>It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that a front line, if not the trench of the global gender war, is in Silicon Valley. In that sense, Silicon Valley culture echoes the Wolf of…

For anyone interested, here's Scott Aaronson's response to the paper: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1767#comment-103591 OK everyone: At several people’s request, I’ve now ta…

The problem of the cat is entirely caused by the assumption that experiments only have one outcome, the belief that wave functions can collapse by magic. The Everett interpretation…

Macroscopic decoherence has explained away Schrodingers Cat. It's been a non-mystery for years.

No one has every believed in the basilisk, save for maybe Yud. Everyone on LessWrong thought it was dumb from day one. LessWrong, now mostly dead, was a fun community full of smart…

It's assumed a rational agent judges its actions by how likely said action are to align the world with their fundamental values. For this reason, it is argued, a rational agent wil…

The correct analogy would be a jail run by a bacterium.

Most chefs are male - people don't care because its a low status job. Programming is now high status, so now this gender gap is an issue. As many feminists have "misogynistic consp…

If this means anything, it means we should experiment with newer forms of government, not be happy with the best of a bad lot.

>To feed gwern's smug sense of superiority to the rest of humankind Really? >And let us add, people create art because it's fun, which is reason enough for almost anything. He's ar…

With head tracking it can look quite good. Though that only works for one person.

Scott S. Alexander wrote a great blog post about this called Society Is Fixed, Biology Is Mutable: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/10/society-is-fixed-biolog...