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It might be fair play, however. If I correctly recall, LessWrong had, for a while, a prominent wiki admin who had been punted from Wikipedia for his frothing npov.

I will throw in an additional factor: any group, community, or segmentation of the general population wherein the participants both tend to have a higher than average intelligence …

Odd. As an undergrad in physics, we had a project for our team which involved percolation theory and "testing" it. So, we had to make differing grids of conductive ink, with a cert…

I have a fairly unusual genetic disorder, and quite rare to boot in this particular variant. The gold standard cocktail contains a medication which, while effective in dealing with…

I had to gently chide a surgeon who came out in the middle of a friend's hysterectomy (and bonus ovary removal) to do a kind of "drive by, not expecting any kind of feedback" pictu…

I am keeping an eye on this thread, as I plan to eventually rip my somewhat large collection, but would prefer to do it just the one time. Exact Audio Copy, the author seems to hav…

Or Poul Anderson's Brainwave (1953), in which the Earth finally leaves a part of the galaxy which inadvertently made thinking hard. And everything with two neurons to rub together …

I used to work mapping in EMS. It is absolutely not that simple, nor will it ever be. Yes, Google was often wrong. Sometimes I would drive out to a street to make sure I had not lo…

I strongly agree. The walrus operator ... argh. When I code, I try to make everything I write not clever. I am not saving a byte here and there because I am not typing in a program…

How quickly we forget "Dear Colleague."

Indeed. I started off making a general "land" for the small city a friend is working up for a prospective module of Dungeons and Dragons. I quickly found myself re-adjusting variou…

You are being fazed by two different, annoying things. Even in physics itself, the word "mass" has multiple contexts (inertial, gravitational, and conversion to energy) in which it…

Dumb question, but is every channel "synched" such that, if two different users tune in on Jellyfin, at separate times, they will still see the same thing at (roughly, given latenc…

I think started a little earlier, back when every site had a cgi-bin directory. And, yeah, so much ... cruft now, and I rarely hear reasons for the tradeoff, other than "should" an…

A shame, I used to use cgi all the time, back when I did web stuff. I wouldn't know what to do now, especially on IIS. Never did understand why I ought to want or need WSGI, other …

This is the best overview I have ever seen, and I have had a passing interest in Cyc since I first read about EURISKO. Hands down, this is great: thorough, historical ... perhaps a…

I have always despised travel, possibly as a result of being moved around a lot as a child. I do not care for a single facet of it. Not the planning, or the reservations, of the at…

This is pretty sad as a headline. It's not a warning, it is business as usual. Civil asset forfeiture started expanding in the 1970s and in the next decade, we got Comprehensive Cr…

I may have to learn its other half, Tk, as a side project of mine is starting to feel less like something I can pull off as a "wizard" on the command line. I had wrestled with wxPy…

I have never had the full on hallucination of a specific object where one is not. All I have ever had, visually, is -- and here I struggle to find the words to precisely describe m…

In terms of pedagogy, it is a problem. I started tutoring other kids in grade school and eventually got paid for it as a side gig later in life. If I ended up covering electronics …

I have expressed this repeatedly: the assignation of a negative value to the electron and a positive value to the proton has probably slowed humanity by a decade.

It has been ages since I read it, but in Sagan's The Demon Haunted World -- which if you haven't read it is a paean to skepticism -- toward the end, he admitted that he found three…

I wonder if the worst possible name would be something like "Null van Hooten-O'Brien" ... there's probably room to make it more painful.

Ah, no. Suppose you do all kinds of studies and not show any telepathy, precog, or remote viewing. You could still say that the brain was only a receiver. None of that would dispro…