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Why CFAR's Mission?
mcallisterjp10y00

In type theory and some fields of logic, 2 is usually defined as (λf.λx.f (f x)); essentially, the concept of doing something twice.

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Confound it! Correlation is (usually) not causation! But why not?
mcallisterjp11y70

That's the number of all directed graphs, some of which certainly have cycles.

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Probability and radical uncertainty
mcallisterjp12y20

"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicycle#Epicycles"

Ha!

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2013 Less Wrong Census/Survey
mcallisterjp12y370

Surveyed. Looking forward to the data and analysis, as per every year.

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Rationality Quotes September 2013
mcallisterjp12y90

That's not how Big O notation works: O(100,000) = O(1).

You presumably mean "in the order of 100,000", which is sometimes written "~100,000".

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Rationality Quotes May 2013
mcallisterjp12y90

This is at least as old as Leibnitz.

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