Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Roberto Matta, The Earth Is A Man (inspired by Mexican landscape)

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I'm a big fan of his more detailed, anxiety-provoking mechanical-looking stuff (see Être avec or Être cible nous monde ) with a ...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

Alternative History #7: German-Led Native Shock Troops in California

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For the previous installment, see Alternative History #6: A Buddhist Colony in Ptolemy's Egypt . For the next installment, see Alterna...
Friday, October 27, 2017

If You Take Parfit Seriously, You Should Commit Yourself To Creating Superintelligence

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Cross posted at Speculative Nonfiction and Cognition and Evolution . Derek Parfit makes the argument that if utilitarianism as it is comm...
Monday, October 23, 2017

The People Afraid of Their IQs

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[Cross-posted to Cognition and Evolution .] There has been some gnawing of tongues on the topic of IQ. Here I'm not talking about its...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Endowment Effect as a Rational Strategy Part 2: Don't Be A Sucker

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Many seemingly irrational decision-making biases can be rational in some settings which differ from typical experimental settings. For exam...
Saturday, September 23, 2017

Little Correlation Between Box Office and Film Quality

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[Added later: this post was prophetic. The Blade Runner sequel (2049) came out two weeks later and as I'm adding this comment, has bee...
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Sunday, August 6, 2017

What Determines Amount of International Tourism?

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I was looking at Gunnar Garfors's 25 Least Visited Countries in the world. I had always wondered about this, so for fun I decided to c...