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Book Review: Chronicles Of Wasted Time | Slate Star Codex

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Open threads at the Open Thread tab every Sunday and Wednesday. Book Review: Chronicles Of Wasted Time. August 11, 2015. I was recently recommended Chronicles of Wasted Time. But he and his family are convinced that all of this is just a momentary hiccup on the road to Glorious Progress. Indeed, his teenage years are marked by a burning excitement at the Russian Revolution:. Against this enthusiasm, he had only a personal tendency which he describes as a deep-set conviction:. 8230;that I was born into a ...

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The Case Of The Famous Physicist | Slate Star Codex

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Open threads at the Open Thread tab every Sunday and Wednesday. The Case Of The Famous Physicist. July 3, 2015. Old news, but I only just heard about it: Long Island woman says psych ward doctors believed she was delusional for insisting Obama follows her on Twitter. I don’t know anything about this case or this person, and I definitely don’t want this to sound like I have anything to say one way or the other about this person I have never met. But I’ve been involved in enough simil...The bizarre experie...

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Stop Adding Zeroes | Slate Star Codex

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Open threads at the Open Thread tab every Sunday and Wednesday. August 12, 2015. Dylan Matthews writes a critique of effective altruism. There is much to challenge in it, and some has already been challenged by people like Ryan Carey. Perhaps I will go into it at more length later. But for now I want to discuss a specific argument of Matthews’. He writes – and I am editing liberally to keep it short, so be sure to read the whole thing:. I don’t have any faith that we understand these risks with eno...

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Links 8/15: A Link In The Armor | Slate Star Codex

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Open threads at the Open Thread tab every Sunday and Wednesday. Links 8/15: A Link In The Armor. August 7, 2015. Today, we are cancelling the beepocalypse! As per Washington Post, although colony collapse disorder remains a problem, it is not an existential threat because beekeepers are now able to breed new colonies faster than old ones are being damaged. Number of available bee colonies is actually higher than it was when the disease started. And which denounced immigration. The model of racial “...

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Trouble Walking Down The Hallway | Slate Star Codex

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Open threads at the Open Thread tab every Sunday and Wednesday. Trouble Walking Down The Hallway. April 15, 2015. Williams and Ceci just released National Hiring Experiments Reveal 2:1 Faculty Preference For Women On STEM Tenure Track. Showing a strong bias in favor of women in STEM hiring. I’ve previously argued something like this was probably the case, so I should be feeling pretty vindicated. But a while ago I wrote Beware The Man Of One Study. Writes Study Shows Gender Bias In Science Is Real. And a...

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No Physical Substrate, No Problem | Slate Star Codex

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Open threads at the Open Thread tab every Sunday and Wednesday. No Physical Substrate, No Problem. April 7, 2015. Yesterday I posted a link to an article. In which Steve Wozniak joins other luminaries like Elon Musk and Bill Gates in warning about the dangers of artificial superintelligence. A commenter replied:. But the argument above has always seemed to me like one of the weakest. Maybe we’ll create a superintelligence, but it will just have no idea how to affect the physical world, and will jus...