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The Fermi Para­dox: What did Sand­berg, Drexler and Ord Really Dis­solve?

Shmi8 Jul 2018 21:18 UTC
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Wire­head your Chickens

Shmi20 Jun 2018 5:49 UTC
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Order from Ran­dom­ness: Order­ing the Uni­verse of Ran­dom Numbers

Shmi19 Jun 2018 5:37 UTC
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Physics has laws, the Uni­verse might not

Shmi9 Jun 2018 5:33 UTC
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[LINK] The Bayesian Se­cond Law of Thermodynamics

Shmi12 Aug 2015 16:52 UTC
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Philos­o­phy pro­fes­sors fail on ba­sic philos­o­phy problems

Shmi15 Jul 2015 18:41 UTC
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Agency is bugs and uncertainty

Shmi6 Jun 2015 4:53 UTC
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A sim­ple ex­er­cise in ra­tio­nal­ity: rephrase an ob­jec­tive state­ment as sub­jec­tive and ex­plore the caveats

Shmi18 Apr 2015 23:46 UTC
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[LINK] Scott Adam’s “Ra­tion­al­ity Eng­ine”. Part III: As­sisted Dying

Shmi2 Apr 2015 16:55 UTC
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In mem­ory of Leonard Ni­moy, most fa­mous for play­ing the (straw) ra­tio­nal­ist Spock, what are your top 3 ST:TOS epi­sodes with him?

Shmi27 Feb 2015 20:57 UTC
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We live in an un­break­able simu­la­tion: a math­e­mat­i­cal proof.

Shmi9 Feb 2015 4:01 UTC
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Cal­ibrat­ing your prob­a­bil­ity es­ti­mates of world events: Rus­sia vs Ukraine, 6 months later.

Shmi28 Aug 2014 23:37 UTC
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[LINK] Could a Quan­tum Com­puter Have Sub­jec­tive Ex­pe­rience?

Shmi26 Aug 2014 18:55 UTC
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[LINK] Physi­cist Carlo Rovelli on Modern Physics Research

Shmi22 Aug 2014 21:46 UTC
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[LINK] “Harry Pot­ter And The Cryp­tocur­rency of Stars”

Shmi5 Aug 2014 20:57 UTC
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[LINK] Claus­trum Stim­u­la­tion Tem­porar­ily Turns Off Con­scious­ness in an oth­er­wise Awake Patient

Shmi4 Jul 2014 20:00 UTC
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[LINK] Why Talk to Philoso­phers: Physi­cist Sean Car­roll Dis­cusses “Com­mon Mi­sun­der­stand­ings” about Philosophy

Shmi23 Jun 2014 19:09 UTC
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[LINK] Scott Aaron­son on Google, Break­ing Cir­cu­lar­ity and Eigenmorality

Shmi19 Jun 2014 20:17 UTC
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List a few posts in Main and/​or Dis­cus­sion which ac­tu­ally made you change your mind

Shmi13 Jun 2014 2:42 UTC
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Math­e­mat­ics as a lossy com­pres­sion al­gorithm gone wild

Shmi6 Jun 2014 23:53 UTC
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