It's not necessarily best to cooperate with everyone with the "AbsolutismBot" wrapper. This guarantees that you and the other program will both cooperate, but without the wrapper it might have been the case that you would defect and the other program would cooperate, which is better for you.

How do you enforce the 10% salary tithe?

One obvious difficulty in educating children for free and then expecting them to pay you back after they become educated is that, most places, minors cannot enter into legally binding contracts. So the kid graduates, gets a great job (in a country that won't recognize the contract), and says, "I never agreed to pay you 10% of my salary, so I'm keeping it."

I would worry the effect this may have on your credit rating if anyone catches you at it, together with possibly more serious effects. This could potentially be considered fraud. Altogether it seems much more sensible to simply live within your means and pay off your credit balance each month.

Outside of mathematical logic, some familiar examples include:

• compactness vs. sequential compactness—generalizing from metric to topological spaces
• product topology vs. box topology—generalizing from finite to infinite product spaces
• finite-dimensional vs. finitely generated (and related notions, e.g. finitely cogenerated)—generalizing from vector spaces to modules
• pointwise convergence vs. uniform convergence vs. norm-convergence vs. convergence in the weak topology vs....—generalizing from sequences of numbers to sequences of functions

Witty to be sure, but obviously false. The causal connection between baseball and the content (as opposed to the name) of the law is probably fairly tenuous. The number three is ubiquitous in all areas of human culture.

Exactly. In fact, it was well known at the time that the Earth is round, and most educated people even knew the approximate size (which was calculated by Eratosthenes in the third century BCE). Columbus, on the other hand, used a much less accurate figure, which was off by a factor of 2.

The popular myth that Columbus was right and his contemporaries were wrong is the exact opposite of the truth.

Wouldn't explaining why the statement is misleading be more productive than suppressing the misleading statement?

If a person somehow loses the associated good feelings, ice cream also ceases to be desirable. I still don't see the difference between Monday and Tuesday.

I think I might have some idea what you mean about masochists not liking pain. Let me tell a different story, and you can tell me whether you agree...

Masochists like pain, but only in very specific environments, such as roleplaying fantasies. Within that environment, masochists like pain because of how it affects the overall experience of the fantasy. Outside that environment, masochists are just as pain-averse as the rest of the world.

Does that story jibe with your understanding?

The difference is between amateur and professional ratings. Amateur dan ratings, just like kyu ratings, are designed so that a difference of n ranks corresponds to suitability of a n-stone handicap, but pro dan ratings are more bunched together.

See Wikipedia:Go pro.

I would be very interested if anyone has good examples of this phenomenon.

There are a few "triads" mentioned in the intellectual hipster article, but the only one that really seems to me like a good example of this phenomenon is the "don't care about Africa / give aid to Africa / don't give aid to Africa" triad.