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…

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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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