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

ShmiJul 8, 2018, 9:18 PM
47 points
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Wire­head your Chickens

ShmiJun 20, 2018, 5:49 AM
86 points
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Order from Ran­dom­ness: Order­ing the Uni­verse of Ran­dom Numbers

ShmiJun 19, 2018, 5:37 AM
15 points
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Physics has laws, the Uni­verse might not

ShmiJun 9, 2018, 5:33 AM
25 points
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[LINK] The Bayesian Se­cond Law of Thermodynamics

ShmiAug 12, 2015, 4:52 PM
13 points
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Philos­o­phy pro­fes­sors fail on ba­sic philos­o­phy problems

ShmiJul 15, 2015, 6:41 PM
23 points
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Agency is bugs and uncertainty

ShmiJun 6, 2015, 4:53 AM
20 points
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A sim­ple ex­er­cise in ra­tio­nal­ity: rephrase an ob­jec­tive state­ment as sub­jec­tive and ex­plore the caveats

ShmiApr 18, 2015, 11:46 PM
32 points
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[LINK] Scott Adam’s “Ra­tion­al­ity Eng­ine”. Part III: As­sisted Dying

ShmiApr 2, 2015, 4:55 PM
12 points
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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?

ShmiFeb 27, 2015, 8:57 PM
14 points
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We live in an un­break­able simu­la­tion: a math­e­mat­i­cal proof.

ShmiFeb 9, 2015, 4:01 AM
−50 points
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Cal­ibrat­ing your prob­a­bil­ity es­ti­mates of world events: Rus­sia vs Ukraine, 6 months later.

ShmiAug 28, 2014, 11:37 PM
27 points
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[LINK] Could a Quan­tum Com­puter Have Sub­jec­tive Ex­pe­rience?

ShmiAug 26, 2014, 6:55 PM
27 points
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[LINK] Physi­cist Carlo Rovelli on Modern Physics Research

ShmiAug 22, 2014, 9:46 PM
8 points
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[LINK] “Harry Pot­ter And The Cryp­tocur­rency of Stars”

ShmiAug 5, 2014, 8:57 PM
4 points
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[LINK] Claus­trum Stim­u­la­tion Tem­porar­ily Turns Off Con­scious­ness in an oth­er­wise Awake Patient

ShmiJul 4, 2014, 8:00 PM
51 points
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[LINK] Why Talk to Philoso­phers: Physi­cist Sean Car­roll Dis­cusses “Com­mon Mi­sun­der­stand­ings” about Philosophy

ShmiJun 23, 2014, 7:09 PM
18 points
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[LINK] Scott Aaron­son on Google, Break­ing Cir­cu­lar­ity and Eigenmorality

ShmiJun 19, 2014, 8:17 PM
31 points
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List a few posts in Main and/​or Dis­cus­sion which ac­tu­ally made you change your mind

ShmiJun 13, 2014, 2:42 AM
24 points
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Math­e­mat­ics as a lossy com­pres­sion al­gorithm gone wild

ShmiJun 6, 2014, 11:53 PM
53 points
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