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New Year's Prediction Thread (2014)

9 Thomas 01 January 2014 09:38AM

It's time to look back to see what was predicted a year ago and how successfully it was.

But even more, it's time for the fresh predictions for the following year, 2014.

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Open Thread, October 7 - October 12, 2013

5 Thomas 07 October 2013 02:52PM

If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.

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Meetup: Ljubljana

1 Thomas 04 October 2013 10:32AM

Tonight, Friday 4th October, at 19:00 in Kraka, Ljubljana, we have a very casual transhumanistic meeting.

WHEN: 4 October 2013 19:00:00PM (CET+1)

WHERE: Karaka bar (Stihova 13, Ljubljana):

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[Link] Intelligence, a thermodynamic POV

-7 Thomas 21 July 2013 12:44PM

A deeply satisfying view on intelligence here:

http://www.insidescience.org/content/physicist-proposes-new-way-think-about-intelligence/987/

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Rationality Quotes June 2013

3 Thomas 03 June 2013 03:08AM

Another month has passed and here is a new rationality quotes thread. The usual rules are:

Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be upvoted or downvoted separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.)
Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, Overcoming Bias, or HPMoR.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

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New Year's Prediction Thread (2013)

5 Thomas 01 January 2013 02:03PM

Try to predict something important in a way, that it will be easy to judge it in 2014, how (in)accurate your predictions really were. Don't leave too much space for a doubt what was really said.

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Rationality Quotes December 2012

4 Thomas 03 December 2012 02:33AM

Once again, here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules:

Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.)

Do not quote yourself
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

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[LINK] How rational is the US federal state

-21 Thomas 30 October 2012 08:56AM

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/over-60000-welfare-spentper-household-poverty_657889.html

60000 dollars per year per poor family, if the article is correct.

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Questions for shminux

-4 Thomas 22 June 2012 07:35PM

As mister shminux mentioned somewhere, he is happy and qualified to answer questions in the field of the Relativity. Here is mine:

A long rod (a cylinder) could have a large escape velocity in the direction of its main axe. From its end, to the "infinity". Larger than the speed of light. While the perpendicular escape velocity is lesser than the speed of light.

Is this rod then an asymmetric black hole?

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