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Apparently, by not unblocking scripts for "ajax.googleapis.com", I am unable to vote on LW. I generally dislike enabling scripting for domai

If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here. If continuing the discussion becomes impractical

People around here seem to think that a recent series of near-misses, such as not destroying the world in the Cold War, is evidence in favor

My purpose in writing this is twofold.   First (chronologically: I thought of this earlier than the other), I want to discuss some of th

I'm trying to work out exactly what instruments should be traded for the purposes of a futarchy. Let the decision be whether to adopt some

Does building a computer count as explaining something to a rock?   (If we still had open threads, I would have posted this there. As it

I was raised to believe that genetically-modified foods are unhealthy to eat and bad for the environment, and given a variety of reasons for

Nadia wanted to solve Alonzo. To reduce him to a canonical, analytic representation, sufficient to reconfigure him at will. If there was a p

(Apologies to RSS users: apparently there's no draft button, but only "publish" and "publish-and-go-back-to-the-edit-screen", misleadingly l

(Edit: It seems lots of people thought this was a terrible idea. I'm keeping the post as it was, though, mostly because I still think it's a