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The book "Good and Real" opens with this thought experiment and has a good discussion.

Scroll down to find the (IMO) more interesting papers. As mentioned in a few comments on the linked page, people tended to submit and upvote very meta articles.

Change the other places you used the old one.

If the article is correct (future really bad, tricked public going to invest on day 1), wouldn't it make sense to invest and sell very soon? Is something special about an IPO where…

Wow! I had no idea the technology was there. It really seems like science fiction.

This is an interesting counterpoint to the OP (from your link): When I was starting to learn Linux after getting frustrated and formatting Windows ME off my HDD, I quickly learned …

If I only need to get one question right it doesn't take many questions before (3/4)^n is smaller than the chance the professor, for whatever reason, avoided C.

Combined with perpetual crunch time, it has the potential to be an anti-perk (since then you won't ever get paid for those days).

Simple is not short. A very short explanation could be given in formal mathematics but it would not be simple.

I don't know if it counts as a serious philosophy book, but I really enjoyed Godel, Escher, Bach. Math, computers, consciousness, etc. I'm currently reading Reasons and Persons. Th…

My solution was to read the whole thing (up to some point in 2009). There is an obvious downside to this solution.

I wonder whether it really would help with just one person. I suspect part of the problem with groups is that the one who proposed a solution will take a social hit if it is reject…

Monday and Tuesday the iPod Touch's mail app wouldn't sync with Gmail. It started working again last night.

I've accidentally downvoted on an iThing before. It doesn't seem worth it to write a comment explaining.

I just emailed you (Seattle).

That's pretty cool.

Yes. I am now signed up.

Having my ipod beep when I get an email has been a life-changer. Now I can work without ever having to "check" my email. Of course I only get around 5-10 a day...

Building up a system and playing games on it, getting PC gamer with demo discs, etc was all so fun back then. I seem to have lost the motivation to do so today.

Being a novice programmer, what should I make of this?

The source is well-laid-out (start with main.tex). It's really cool that I can go to the PDF, see something I like, and immediately look at how it was done.

No. I am a grad student teaching first-year calculus. 90% are getting a chance to party and maybe 10% are the idealists.

I agree. I first learned to program in Python and then started learning about other languages with more options enabled. Coming from a Lisp to Python would have felt strange. Maybe…