Pi is still wrong

In anti-honor of “Pi Day,” I’d like to direct your attention to Michael Hartl’s The Tau Manifesto. The Manifesto is inspired by Bob Palais’ article is wrong! and presents a list of simple, but compelling, reasons that , not , is the more fundamental constant. These ideas have been discussed on the blathosphere before, e.g. [...]

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John Baez interviews Eliezer Yudkowsky

There’s a lot of food for thought in John Baez’s latest post on Azimuth, an interview with AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky. Eliezer Yudkowsky happens to be one of the most interesting people I know of. In addition to his work on friendly AI, he helped found the community blog Less Wrong. The material in his [...]

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