SebastianG

An expert is not merely someone who has memorized data but someone who has internalized the structure of knowledge itself. This is why we call them PhDs—Doctors of Philosophy. Their expertise extends beyond isolated facts to the organizing principles that connect those facts, allowing them to wield knowledge in novel...

Does anyone know good practical research about the effect sizes of different UV-C air purifier measures and ventilation? Primarily interested in school and office environments. Imagine you only have full coverage of a few rooms. Or partial coverage of all rooms. Or "very good" coverage of the whole building?

I don't work in cyber security, so others will have to teach me. I'm interested in the question of how AI systems can become private. How to make communications with an AI system as protected as the confessional. Some AI capabilities are throttled not for public interest reasons but because...

The 110th Anniversary of Sarajevo is next Friday. To commemorate I am thinking about the following questions. 1. What does the sentence: The assassination of archduke Ferdinand caused WWI mean? Is it true? 2. Was World War I inevitable? 3. Given the invention of the tools that make things like...

[Confidence 50%, this is speculative and good counterarguments will improve my view of these matters.] I. When I do moral philosophy, I am looking for a usable repeatable framework for analyzing moral decision-making in a very broad range of cases. I accept that moral philosophy is an inexact science and...

> "The view, expressed by almost all competent atomic scientists, that there was no "secret" about how to build an atomic bomb was thus not only rejected by influential people in the U.S. political establishment, but was regarded as a treasonous plot." Robert Oppenheimer A Life at the Center, Ray...

[I appreciate that less wrong has a very strong norm against navel gazing. Let's keep it that way. The purpose of this post is merely to reflect upon and highlight valuable tools and mental habits in our toolkit.] The rationalsphere propelled me to where I am today by giving me...