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…ling to take $400 -- that would be super awkward. Probably I should have negotiated that situation more clearly, but it worked out okay. I've heard about situations where unclear negotiations did not work out okay. There was a New York Times Magazine article about the site publi...

…e. Although productivity did indeed increase, the system—possibly inherent in a market economy—did not result in humans working much shorter hours. Rather, what happened is what the anthropologist and anarchist David Graeber describes as the growth of “bullshit jobs.”°4 While job...

…Many economists and political scientists have thought about "optimal institutions." And much comparative and historical work has been done. But there isn't really a good unified theory of how these evolve, what characteristics are likely to emerge, and in what ways they are or ar...

…k of cooperation and defection only by firsthand observation. Many animals use visual observations to decide whether to work with others. Reef fish in the Red Sea, for instance, watch wrasses clean other reef fish, to determine whether or not they’re cooperative, as biologist Red...

…by the public too (getting rid of nukes equals saving money), but opposed by Republicans in Congress, Obama will try to work around the political obstacles by seeking a deal with yes ... you got it ... his old friend Vlad Putin. It's worth a try. If Putin balks or Republicans get...

…tend in fact to be lower, judging from logic and evidence for a decline in risk tolerance with age. Then what besides work is recovered in pay? The two possibilities I was weighing were maintenance consumption and human depreciation. The winner was obvious. The higher-paid usua...

…aborating some of the dynamics underlying the above diagrams, we pause to briefly discuss some of the practicalities of work done with the OpenCog system currently implementing parts of the CogPrime architecture. OpenCog, the open-source software framework underlying the “OpenCo...

… already been used to describe the software implementation of CogPrime within the open-source OpenCog AGI software framework. The OpenCogPrime software, right now, implements only a small fraction of the CogPrime design as described here. However, OpenCog was designed specificall...

…usiness master’s degree they had offered in Pittsburgh and now offer only the SCC version on the main CMU campus. SCCs work and work well. Students learn actual skills and teach- ers feel like they are helping students do something real. But faculty, who are used to the old clas...

… of antiquity to the contemporary. My passion is the Italian Renaissance and the rich history behind it, especially the works of 15th century masters such as Masaccio and Bellini. Some of the courses that NYU offers such as "Early masters of Italian Renaissance painting" and "Flo...

…tcomes rather than intentions. Together they give output = investment + invested consumption + positive self-invested work — human depreciation + net transfer + exhaust = investment + invested consumption + self-invested work — recovered human depreciation + net transfer + exha...

… not. As aresult of my involvement with the Templeton group, I decided to carry out some quantitative and experimental work to see whether we could figure out the differences between those who found it easy to do this work, and those for whom it was difficult. That work suggests...

… lead and take a big bet. Maghan O: advancing our interests w a Lead from behind or a light handed approach will only work if a numner of assumptions are accurate (eg Muslim Bro will moderate; monarchy -KSA- will self reform). These are big assumptions and therefore using a lig...

… iron inside, that makes no sense." That was in March 2009. In October of that year the U.S. and its allies tentatively worked out a deal with Iranian negotiators to move some of HOUSE OVERSIGHT 028728 their enriched uranium outside Iran. Western analysts were confident that Mr....

…rnment, while several others accept some US government funding, as well as money from other governments on a contracted work basis. Three think tanks interviewed accept no US or other government funding: One is funded entirely by central operating funds from an endowment, while t...