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"Deals fall through." At Justin.tv, Emmett has a framed picture of pg with this caption.

It's true that I didn't make any effort to soften what I said. If your understanding of the nature of things was largely formed more than 200 years ago, chances are that it's wrong…

I've been down voted, but I only say this because it's been the case in every one of the (literally) hundreds of discussions I've had on the topic.

That'll be the case in anything where people have strong attachments.

Yea, many schools of Buddhism have a lot of supernatural trappings that are basically ornaments and interpretations from the cultures they grew to prominence in. I think this is wh…

I don't find this convincing. The arguments are thousands of years old, but most of the relevant data is <200 years old. The reason most religious hackers don't talk about it is th…

That's the problem, it's hard to tell what you're saying.

Here's a data point for you - I changed my mind because of evolution. Here we're not really interested in smart people - many smart people believe in God. We're interested in the s…

I don't see a coherent argument here, which further suggests that it doesn't mean anything. Our having a concept of infinity has no metaphysical significance. All our definitions a…

"As a neuroscientist, I know that finite matter gives rise to visions of the infinite." I'm pretty sure this doesn't mean anything.

Reddit co-founder Alexis and his good friend 'Pierre' will be here at the JTV office to talk about his experience in Web 2.0 startups and a bit more! Free pizza served at 5pm. Ever…

That kinda sucks. It's already precisely the color I'd make it.

Ella Fitzgerald at low volume behind the gameplay music? Brilliant!

The low average DH# of the comments only strengthens the OP's claims of people being unreasonable about it.

I've had this on my wall for months.

Things Peter Thiel has funded: The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Making sure our eventual AI overlords are benevolent) Aubrey De Grey's Methuselah Mouse Prize …

Agreed. I'd personally love to design a game world and story, but am not willing to devote 4 years of my life to just making something rudimentary.

40mph can still kill.

That's always been my favorite color. I feel so validated.

Why do you hope for his sake he's built Eliza-like behavior into HN such that his responses to all "Ask PG" questions are fully automated?

Can you elaborate on the differences?

Or you could attend SuperHappyDevHouse.

I second that fear. Remember the Segway bug that caused the motors to spontaneously reverse? Imagine that on the highway at 60mph.

"They hate to work on routine things - they would much prefer to build complex theoretical solutions, and leave the implementation of the system to others. They are intensely inter…

Because quantum consciousness is a 'special sauce' theory analogous to what vitalism was in biology - the idea that biomechanical processes are not enough to account for life and t…