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    • How Weird Inside Black Holes?

      In the last few days, I’ve dived down a rabbit hole inspired by some new astrophysics papers suggesting that dark energy is actually black holes. I think I get it now. So let me explain. The universe is expanding, and instead of that expansion decelerating as was expected, we found a few decades ago that it is actually accelerating. And according to general relativity, this implies that a big component of the universe must have nearly maximal negative pressure, and be increasing in mass to keep...

    • Overcoming Bias : The World Forager Elite

      My last post was on Where’s My Flying Car? , which argues that changing US attitudes created a tsunami of reluctance and regulation that killed nuclear power,…

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    • Overcoming Bias : Why Be Contrarian?

      While I’m a contrarian in many ways, it think it fair to call my ex-co-blogger Eliezer Yudkowsky even more contrarian than I. And he has just published a book,…

    • Overcoming Bias : Forager v Farmer, Elaborated

      Seven years ago, after a year of reading up on forager lives, I first started to explore a forager vs. farmer axis: A lot of today’s political disputes come…

    • Why Does Software Rot?

      Almost a year ago computer scientist Daniel Lemire wrote a post critical of a hypothesis I’ve favored, one I’ve used in Age of Em. On the “better late than never”…