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This thread is for asking any questions that might seem obvious, tangential, silly or what-have-you. Don't be shy, everyone has holes in the

If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post, then it goes here. Notes for future OT posters: 1. Please add the 'open_thread' tag.

This is the (late) weekly open thread. See the tag. You'd think we could automate this. The traditional boilerplate follows. If it's wor

In Newcomb's problem, a superintelligence called Omega shows you two boxes, A and B, and offers you the choice of taking only box A, or both