Eliezer Yudkowsky is on bloggingheads.tv with one of my favorite producers of brain-candy, the statistician Andrew Gelman. Here is Eliezer's An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem, and David Spiegelhalter's article on Bayesian statistics in Scholar pedia (which Gelman refers to favorably).
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More Singularity stuff. I'm Not Saying People Are Stupid, says Eliezer Yudkowsky in response to my summary of his talk.
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
- Eliezer Wiesel
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
- Eliezer Wiesel
In my discussion with Eliezer I referred to "recreational genetics." Basically, "for entertainment purposes only" genetics.