Ethereum is a new Turing-complete meta-cryptocurrency platform that allows you to create any kind of smart contract or decentralized application that you want on top of other cryptocurrency’s blockchains.

Looking for a job that leverages your skills in fundraising or web development to achieve a massive positive social impact? Could you help a growing charity in the heart of Oxford, UK with anything…

It turns out you can’t quit. Your brain will continue to waste resources trying to accomplish your goals, even after you attempt to switch tasks or give up. So what’s the best way to…

Monster has started producing an energy shake that combines the amount of protein I recommend for longevity (25g) along with the amount of caffeine I recommend for nootropic benefit (157mg). Welcome to 2014 —…

Remember this chart? After 4 years, it suddenly became much more accurate now that the guy compiling it learned how to discriminate between good and bad studies. I immediately knew it was better when I saw…

A Chicago trader recently won a football prediction contest for $557,850 and gave half of the prize money to Givewell. By induction, if you’re one of my many hyper-analytic friends who think Givewell is…

Our best ethical systems have problems, but superintelligent AI could help with that.

A new axiom system called “Miniaturized Finitism” is a proposed workaround for achieving a fragmented sense of model consistency — even in the face of Gödel’s Second Incompleteness Theorem. It’s able to achieve this…

Surprisingly, no one actually makes clothes that analyze your workouts, even though it’s obviously a good idea — both for logging and for improving what you do. So I just pre-ordered this new exertion…

Gathering data on human preference is PAC learnable in polynomial time. The only gotchas are that: 1) The result only holds if human values are not pathologically complex (i.e., not branching more quickly in…

Facebook Hires a Head of Artificial Intelligence.Coverage is stereotypical but starting to move towards acceptance that AI is obvious and normal.

Time to get off Gillette’s 4750% profit margin razors. The Darco Pace 6+ gives a superior shave and buying the replacement heads doesn’t make you feel like a chump.

$20 off coupon for Lyft is in effect: TWENTY Now’s a good time to try them out for a ride if you haven’t before.

“On the eve of a technological breakthrough, an insignificant janitor and a prominent engineer are faced with a decision that will alter the course of humanity.”

Impressive new stats from Watson (3yr / 24x / 90%): 3 years after its triumph on the television quiz show Jeopardy!, IBM has advanced Watson from a game playing innovation into a commercial technology….

DeepMind is now getting superhuman performance on certain Atari games with Q-learning-based reinforcement learning. Their new architecture outperforms all previous approaches on six out of the seven games they tested on and surpasses a human expert…

Engineering and psychology researchers in Finland investigated where we feel and don’t feel.

If you want to lose weight in 2014 but haven’t selected a diet, maybe you shouldn’t… Why not just sign up to get assigned a random diet to try for science during this upcoming,…

I attended CES this week and this is probably the product I’m most personally excited about. Alarm clocks are known to be damaging to cognitive performance, and are basically only something you should use…

CBS may oversimplify the issue some. But they’re also right. AI is inevitable, and it’s really only a choice of *how* and not *if* we eventually design advanced AI.