Solvent

Scott, known on LessWrong as Yvain, recently wrote a post complaining about an inaccurate rape statistic. Arthur Chu, who is notable for winning money on Jeopardy recently, argued against Scott's stance that we should be honest in arguments in a comment thread on Jeff Kaufman's Facebook profile, which can be...

Discussion article for the meetup : Inaugural Canberra meetup WHEN: 12 February 2014 07:30:00PM (-0800) WHERE: CSIT Building, Acton ACT 2601, Australia (I'm posting this on behalf of my lurker friend.) WHEN: 12 February 2014 07:30:00PM(+1100) WHERE: CSIT Building, Blg 108, North Road, ANU This will be the first meetup...

I've just gotten to the end of Udacity's CS262 course in programming languages. It's been pretty good. Wes Weimer, the lecturer, seems to be a really cool guy. There's a quote from HPMOR in the final exam, which I thought was pretty cool. In the last part of the last...

At a startup camp weekend, I've made this (incredibly sketchy, amateurish) app (NSFW) which implements classical conditioning to create a negative response to candy, smoking, or meat. After using it intensively for about a day while writing it, I certainly feel disgusted at the sight of candy or chocolate. There's...

I'm friends with an incredibly smart kid. He's 14, but has been put up three grades in school at one point. He does all the obvious enrichment things which are available in the relatively small Australian city he lives in. His life experience has been pretty unusual. He doesn't really...

I'm doing an undergraduate course on the Free Will Theorem, with three lecturers: a mathematician, a physicist, and David Chalmers as the philosopher. The course is a bit pointless, but the company is brilliant. Chalmers is a pretty smart guy. He studied computer science and math as an undergraduate, before...

I'm participating in a university course on free will. On the online forum, someone asked me to summarise Eliezer's solution to the free will problem, and I did it like this. Is it accurate in this form? How should I change it? “I'll try to summarise Yudkowsky's argument. As Anneke...