Is it possible to ground ethics in terms of itself without falling into circular reasoning or infinite regress? Scott Aaronson explains how MIT graduate student Tyler Singer-Clark is taking the first steps towards researching…
Effective Altruist Opportunity: Spin For Good is running a $1000 money added online blackjack tournament this week that’s 100% for charity. I’m currently one of the leaders but I’d definitely welcome some friendly competition….
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UM has been reduced to (1) desperately trying to take credit for how great one of their engineering students is (since he got a Thiel Fellowship), while (2) simultaneously trying to avoid admitting that…
If you could design the ideal way to lose weight, it would probably look a lot like pumping fat and calories directly out of your body. And for some of us, nature has made…
Researchers find evidence that insider trading occurs in roughly 25% of mergers and acquisitions. That seems really low. Insider trading is one of the only profitable activities you can engage in as an investor….
Researchers have discovered and tested a new technique to engender a heritable shutdown of male mosquitoes ability to sire female offspring. This could be a much more efficient and rapid way to engineer the…
Want to track your goals? And make sure you don’t fail at the “forget to track your goals” stage? If so, check out my new guest post over at CFAR’s blog. It will teach…
tl;dr: You probably need to practice rationality ahead of time in order to have it in the kinds of situations where you need it the most.
Google is set to support full native PGP encryption of emails so they can make it through all internet hubs without being snooped through. They’re in the final stages of paying bounties to hackers…
You might be interested in taking this effective altruism survey. There’s an effort to circulate as widely as possible, with the creator giving $250 of his own money to one participant. The results should…
I’m a big fan of new online medical services like First Derm. Instead of trying to schedule a doctors appointment when you have a skin problem, you just snap a photo with your iPhone…
Most attempts at regulatory policy for emerging technology are pretty bad. Which is a shame, since there are a few extremely dangerous research fields that could use better regulation. For example, a group of…
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As a mathamatician, I’m glad to see folks like Andrew Lih at Edge.org agreeing with me that calculus isn’t that important. It’s easily the least applicable technical prereq distracting people from mastering the most…
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Google is granting $3.5MM to 10 Bay Area charities. But they’re using public voting to determine which 4 charities receive $500,000 instead of $250,000. If you want to help move $1MM from less effective…
Want to make history by finding the final 6 primes required to settle the Sierpinski Problem? Now there’s a new version of the SB client (v27.9) available to help with that. Download it and…