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Here is a thought experiment that shows beliefs don’t parcel themselves out the way sentences do. 

There is a tendency in our culture to single out one nutrient or ingredient as a quick fix. 

God doesn’t answer back. That’s the problem. Humans can. 

The power and agility of our brain was by no means necessary to hunt and kill animals, so why did the thinking organ become such an overachiever?

“Do I want to spend time with this idea or this person? 

Don’t be afraid of looking into your own genetic make-up. 

How all the parts of the brain come together so that you have a unified perception of the world is one of the unsolved mysteries in neuroscience. 

My heaven, nirvana, would be if the questions that are raised by Oprah Winfrey would be answered by the faculty of Harvard University.

That first click is a door opener for people and makes them want to do more and more stuff.

So long as you’re not being pressured to do it, staying at your desk can result in less fatigue than previously expected, says a new study.

The brain is the most demanding organ that your circulatory system has to feed.

This question touches on one of the most fundamental issues that is addressed by anybody who thinks about mortality, the end of mortality.

most accurate cosmological simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe yet 

I think a lot of people stereotype generous and helpful people as pushovers, as weak, as not tough and driven enough to be successful.  And I think that is a myth that we really need to break down.  

The mechanism for changing your mindset through messaging is the same as for changing a physical behavior: a targeted and limited resolution practiced relentlessly until it becomes automatic. 

In order to be successful, you need to do more than just design a good product. You need to be persuasive.

We are testing what it is like to lose privacy now because if the species survives, we’ll develop a capability to not be embarrassed anymore. 

The efficient market model states all security prices today reflect all available information and only new information is going to change the price.  

The golden rule of investor partnership: I want to communicate to my investors as I would wish they would communicate to me.

The easiest way to get Americans, in particular, onboard programming is by frightening the bejesus out of them. 

Taking risks doesn’t mean being stupid.  It really involves taking measured risks and really understanding how to mitigate those risks in one way or another. 

I grew up in Europe during [World War II] and so I have a European attitude on the concept of occupation.

If you’re looking for breakthroughs, you need to be willing to take huge risks and to back non-traditional approaches.  

One widely useful mental habit that we teach in our class at the Center for Applied Rationality is called reference class forecasting, and it’s for the most part, in the literature, […]

We live in a curious moment when medical progress is making it possible to eliminate many conditions exactly as social progress is making it possible to celebrate them. 

I find it fascinating that based on what we now know, we can’t yet say that it’s impossible to travel in time. 

Most of the successful companies over the last 30 or 40 years that define Silicon Valley actually spun out of major corporations.  They were oldies. 

A product doesn’t have to be perfect, but just good enough so it can be made perfect along the way.

When you believe in what you want to do and you put the concept of failure away the chances of success are even greater.

If the Universe began with equal amount of matter and antimatter, why does matter dominate today’s cosmos? “You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you […]