I'm surprised to see how close I was to the mean in so many cases. I expected on several questions that I would be, if not an outlier, then outside the middle quartiles. I was wrong in most cases. Clearly the OB/LW brainwashing process has been more successful than I realised... :P

Seriously, very interesting results. I'm a bit dismayed by the 3% female figure -- I knew I was in a minority, but I didn't realise it was that tiny. I wish I could articulate some suggestions for getting hold of more female readers/commenters. I can sort of see intuitively how this place could seem like not the most attractive one to some women, but I don't have any ideas for sorting that out. Largely I guess it may just be a self-perpetuating thing. Perhaps the first step ought to be just getting some of the current female readers/commenters to make (more/some) top-level posts too. I wish I felt brave and knowledgeable and intelligent enough to attempt one touching on some aspect or other of feminism.

Sausage fest.

I guess the point is to model artificial intelligences, of which we know almost nothing, so the models and problems need the robustness of logic and simpleness.

Thats why they are brittle when used for modeling people.

Hi Lesswrong. I just read my emails at home before going to work. Post-singularity, routines will be different.

Boring

You say that as if a problem can only belong to one field.

Singularity.

I agree with the thesis; the referenced paper is really interesting, but the article on LW is a bit long-winded in trying to convey the notion that "there is no internal model". Amusingly the paper's title is "Internal models in the cerebellum"!

Lojban, being obnoxious in advocating a cause is more likely to hurt than help that cause.

Loved the gut example.