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Original at Washington Examiner http://washingtonexaminer.com/down-with-politics/article/2508882#.UGSscI0iYZm > ... > > Politics makes us worse because "politics is the mindkiller," as intelligence theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky puts it. "Evolutionary psychology produces strange echoes in time," he writes, "as adaptations continue to execute long after they cease to maximize fitness." We gorge ourselves sick on sugar and fat, and we indulge our tribal hard-wiring by picking a political "team" and denouncing the "enemy." > > But our atavistic Red/Blue tribalism plays to the interests of "individual politicians in getting you to identify with them instead of judging them," Yudkowsky writes. > > ... > > Examiner Columnist Gene Healy is a vice president at the Cato Institute and the author of "The Cult of the Presidency." Repost at Reason.com http://reason.com/archive/2012/09/25/why-politics-are-bad-for-us
I saw an article on high IQ people being excluded from elite professions. Because the site seemed to have a particular agenda related to the article, I wanted to check here for other independent supporting evidence for the claim. Their fundamental claim seems to be that P(elite profession|IQ) peaks at...
What's up with that? In a discussion thread, I can karma vote on anyone. But if I select a person to see all their posts, for some people, karma is disabled while looking at them, and for others, it's not disabled. Same thing if I look at their posts under...
Stossel has a page with full episodes. I don't know when it will show there. Hanson was the first guest, and was done by the 12 minute mark. http://video.foxbusiness.com/playlist/stossel-full-episodes/
Santa delivers for LessWrong! Electronically, of course. Merry Christmas. http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman-ebook/dp/B00555X8OA/ref=la_B001ILFNQG_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387914703&sr=1-1
Original at Washington Examiner http://washingtonexaminer.com/down-with-politics/article/2508882#.UGSscI0iYZm > ... > > Politics makes us worse because "politics is the mindkiller," as intelligence theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky puts it. "Evolutionary psychology produces strange echoes in time," he writes, "as adaptations continue to execute long after they cease to maximize fitness." We gorge ourselves sick...
E.T. Jaynes had a brief exchange of correspondence with Hugh Everett in 1957. The exchange was initiated by Everett, who commented on recently published works by Jaynes. Jaynes responded to Everett's comments, and finally sent Everett a letter reviewing a short version of Everett's thesis published that year. Jaynes reaction...
http://thiqaruni.org/mathpdf9/(86).pdf The book didn't include Chapter 30 - "MAXIMUM ENTROPY: MATRIX FORMULATION" Opening in adobe seems to work out better for me.