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This article is in a superposition of tongue-in-cheek and tongue straight in the mouth. (That's a Norwegian expression meaning "to concentrate on something difficult".) If you read it, please report your experimental observation of which it is, so that we can determine the amplitudes of the two states. However, I...

This post contains some thoughts around software-patent strategies for large tech companies, in particular how the ability to block others' applications seems to set up an Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma and may change the strategic landscape for patents entirely. Joel Spolsky writes of recent successes in blocking bad patent applications: Micah...

Discussion article for the meetup : Cincinnati: Financial optimisation WHEN: 28 July 2013 04:00:00PM (-0400) WHERE: 354 Ludlow Ave This month we will meet to discuss how to apply rationality skills to personal finance: What are our goals, what ought to be our goals, and how can we accomplish them....

Very brief recap: The logical positivists said "All truths are experimentally testable". Their critics responded: "If that's true, how did you experimentally test it? And if it's not true, who cares?" Which is a fair criticism. Logical positivism pretty much collapsed as a philosophical position. But it seems to me...

Discussion article for the meetup : Cincinnati near-Schelling day WHEN: 21 April 2013 04:00:00PM (-0400) WHERE: 3060 Marshall Avenue, apartment 414, Cincinnati It turns out that Schelling Day is not, in fact, a Schelling point locally; but we will run the ritual anyway, with better snacks. Discussion article for the...

Discussion article for the meetup : Cincinnati February: Predictions WHEN: 16 February 2013 02:00:00PM (-0500) WHERE: 354 Ludlow Avenue We will meet at the Amol India on Ludlow street at 1400. This month's exercise is to try for calibration. Each of us should give a probability for each of the...