jrp

The book "Good and Real" opens with this thought experiment and has a good discussion.

Scroll down to find the (IMO) more interesting papers. As mentioned in a few comments on the linked page, people tended to submit and upvote very meta articles.

Change the other places you used the old one.

If the article is correct (future really bad, tricked public going to invest on day 1), wouldn't it make sense to invest and sell very soon?

Is something special about an IPO where you have to hold it for some time?

Wow! I had no idea the technology was there. It really seems like science fiction.

This is an interesting counterpoint to the OP (from your link):

  When I was starting to learn Linux after getting frustrated
  and formatting Windows ME off my HDD, I quickly learned how
  to ask questions the smart way: go to a Linux-promoter's 
  forum and say, "Windows does <insert task> better than Linux"
  or "Linux is bad because it can't do <insert task>". Every 
  time I did this, I was flooded with solutions... unless I 
  was right. Either way, I had my answer. Meanwhile, if I 
  asked questions the smart way as recommended by Raymond, 
  I'd be lucky if I received any answers -- I'd have already 
  done a bunch of research, and this would be clear, so 
  nobody else would feel the need to do experimenting or 
  research on their own to figure it out.

If I only need to get one question right it doesn't take many questions before (3/4)^n is smaller than the chance the professor, for whatever reason, avoided C.

Combined with perpetual crunch time, it has the potential to be an anti-perk (since then you won't ever get paid for those days).

Simple is not short. A very short explanation could be given in formal mathematics but it would not be simple.

I don't know if it counts as a serious philosophy book, but I really enjoyed Godel, Escher, Bach. Math, computers, consciousness, etc.

I'm currently reading Reasons and Persons. Thought experiments and discussion about how personal identity works under, eg, transporter copies.

My solution was to read the whole thing (up to some point in 2009). There is an obvious downside to this solution.

I wonder whether it really would help with just one person. I suspect part of the problem with groups is that the one who proposed a solution will take a social hit if it is rejected. So, with just you, that shouldn't come up.

Monday and Tuesday the iPod Touch's mail app wouldn't sync with Gmail. It started working again last night.