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I haven't written many posts here but for the record, I don't wish anything I have written or will write to be protected by a licence which restricts free propagation.
I hope you realize that the copyright that is automatically applied to all your writings is almost maximally restrictive.
The purpose of all the licenses discussed on this page (and of most copyright licenses used on the internet) is to loosen restrictions on propagation.
That's unfortunate.
However in practice the copyright is rarely, if ever, enforced for ordinary blog posts written by a pseudonymous author. If hypothetically somebody for whatever reasons violate the copyright, it would be technically illegal, but the copyright violator could be sure that nothing happens because I have no incentives to sue anyone. If, on the other hand, my text were part of some company's business plan, the incentives to sue violators would exist. Therefore the present situation is preferable to me.
But anyway, if it can be done this way, I hereby declare that all my past, present and future writing on LW are in public domain.
There is a very knowledgeable man named Mark S. Miller who puts, "Text by me above is hereby placed in the public domain," at the bottom of his posts. He's been doing it since 2002.
(He only posts on mailing lists, though, AFAICT, where of course it is accepted practice for static text to appear at the bottom of posts.)