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Browser is Chrome 12.0.742.122. It doesn't happen on Firefox. "It" is: * sometimes I can't click on links and eventually I get Chrome's "dead tab" notification * other times it keeps loading, even though while I wait for it to load I can go to, say, my user page and...

Concerning Less Wrong's tagline, consider this plausible reaction of someone looking at LW for the first time: > Cut the crap, nobody cares about rationality in the abstract. Just tell me what view you're trying to push under the guise of presenting it as the only "rational" one. And here...

What does it mean?

> Omega will either award you $1000 or ask you to pay him $100. He will award you $1000 if he predicts you would pay him if he asked. He will ask you to pay him $100 if he predicts you wouldn't pay him if he asked. > > Omega...

Here's an edited version of a puzzle from the book "Chuck Klosterman four" by Chuck Klosterman. > It is 1933. Somehow you find yourself in a position where you can effortlessly steal Adolf Hitler's wallet. The theft will not effect his rise to power, the nature of WW2, or the...

> Let's play a game. Two times, I will give you an amnesia drug and let you enter a room with two boxes inside. Because of the drug, you won't know whether this is the first time you've entered the room. On the first time, both boxes will be empty....

> If Omega offered to give you 2^n utils with probability 1/n, what n would you choose? This problem was invented by Armok from #lesswrong. Discuss.