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EDIT: I see by the karma bombing we can't even ask. Why even call this part of the site "discussion?" Some of the classic questions about an omnipotent god include 1. Can god make a square circle? 2. Can god create an immovable object? And then move it? Saints and...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/walker/walker12.html Came across it pretty randomly, I found it quite intriguing. Cryonics is "routine" for human embryos, not far-fetched for humans at all. Makes the whole thing seem potentially very reasonable (and me someone who hasn't signed up and doesn't plan to).

More of a Robin Hanson thing than a lesswrong thing, but these are sister blogs (sibling blogs?) and Robin's has no forum for discussion. Amused to learn a play had been written and staged with Eliezer Yudkowski in its title, I searched to find info on this. The play is...

If I click on a users name it brings me to a page like lukeprog's. In the upper right of that page I see lukeprog's karma score, and I also see a button "add to friends." Early in my use of this site there were some authors I wanted to...

EDIT at Karma -5: Could the next "good citizen" to vote this down leave me a comment as to why it is getting voted down, and if other "good citizens" to pile on after that, either upvote that comment or put another comment giving your different reason? Original Post: Questions...

EDIT: 1:19 PM PST 22 December 2010 I completed this post. I didn't realize an uncompleted version was already posted earlier. I wanted to read the quantum sequence because I've been intrigued by the nature of measurement throughout my physics career. I was happy to see that articles such as...

So you think its important to be able to estimate how well you are estimating something? Here is a fun test that has been given to plenty of other people. I highly recommend you take the test before reading any more. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/06/how-good-an-estimator-are-you.html The discussion of this test at the blog...