I think open threads are in practice already this. Excessively encouraging such things could breed crackpots.
I think open threads are in practice already this.
Not that I have noticed. Open Threads seem to primarily be "here's a cool thing I'd like to let you know about". If I want to post something like "The 'you are cloned and play prisoner's dilemma against yourself' example against CDT is actually pretty bad. Solving it doesn't require UDT/TDT so much as self-modification, with which even CDT would be able to easily solve it." (with a few more lines of explanation), for example, my model of Open thread predicts that if I'm wrong, I'll be...
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post, even in Discussion, it goes here.