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No, not what I meant. IIRC, the idea of voting only on the last day was floated before. The concern was that this would mean people would vote less, m...

Definitely. That is unfortunately what you sign up for, when writing a longer story. More work, for less payoff. Laziness is obviously a factor. Peopl...

Right, that set the expectation for me.

To temper my praise, I realized what was bothering me about the story: the dreams of the "curse" don't actually impact Burgess' life in any significan...

agreed, if we do polls again it should be that way. I think people were afraid this would reduce voting turnout. I don't think that's s a big deal, th...

Same! I was annoyed there were no polls this year, now I'm starting to think they were always an unnecessary distraction.

Not a huge deal, but this format is not my favorite. I don't really get the reasoning: if people are psychologically disposed to comment on the top po...

Something very British about all this...

I agree with your review except for this part. It seems weirdly backwards: if a friend was telling you this story, it would be incredibly odd for them...

Excellent story! :clap: The author is getting (even) better, if I have them right. It is impressive that so many places and times were portrayed, each...

The story is polished. Some of the imagery is fun. I thought the strongest part was the beginning, introducing the cathedral of finance, with it's sun...

Reminds me of Shawn and Quigley. Which is a good thing. The first section was rough. Not having context i couldn't really follow at all. Reading back,...

A lot of stylistic problems here. People don't talk or think like this. It introduces the reader to one thing after another, without giving them a rea...

Funny! These are the parts that made me lol: This was my favorite. It landed because it was actually built up by the whole story so far. I was like "t...

Past tense? There's still time, bud.

nice breakdown of a small comment. I love when authors do that, though I'm no good at it.

What do you guys think of ambiguity? It can feel like a cheap way to seem "artistic". It is just easier sometimes to be ambiguous than to work things ...

Let ai do it? It would be interesting to see which of us gets flagged.

My take on this is that chess and math are performed by the part of the brain that does the generic computation. The slow part, the part you are keenl...

Suicide is wrong because it destroys something that has value. Things have value because they are valued. When something valued is destroyed, the valu...

Here, Hanover makes a claim, while helpfully embodying it, as an example, in that very same claim. Masterful writing technique, really.

So... when exactly do submissions close? I'm assuming 12/15, 11:59 PM in UTC -12, which is the last minute it is 12/15 anywhere in the world. I live i...

I lived for a few years like that. It was nice, that life really suits me.

I would move it. The thread seems more significant than the vast majority of mainline threads here; it reveals a huge landmine in propositional logic ...

This does not belong in the lounge. This is a paradox that rest on a tricky difference between conditionals in language and conditionals in logic. The...

Is it not thereby falsifiable, or at least made progressively more unlikely? At some point we might encounter a phenomenon whose behavior we despair o...

Really all that needs be said.

An investment is something you purchase not to make use of, but with the hope it will make you money passively, just by owning it. This can come from ...

I don't agree, I think most people consider gold to be an investment. Nor do I agree with this distinction between speculation and investment. Every i...

What I think they missed is there is no there, there in any currency. Maybe there is for national currencies. That topic is above my pay grade. But fo...

They were saying that when the crypto market cap was much much smaller, and they were much less institutionally entrenched than they are now. By any m...

Is that what you think you are arguing against? The second sentence in my op: You say And yet in the quantity theory of money graphic you posted, both...

I don't think so. Of course in reality this loan would have been flagged instantly. If this titanic mistake was somehow made, quintupling the total mo...

Gold has some "inherent value" (as problematic as that is) but that (decoration, electronics) has little relation to it's value, the bulk of which der...

Sure. It was this basic feeling that kept me and most of us from being early investors. And it is this doubt that combined with greed makes the price ...

What does "trustworthy" mean here?

No, even dogecoin is scarce. Unlike Bitcoin it is inflationary, there is no cap on the total supply. But dogecoin must still be "mined", it cannot be ...

Language befuddles us as philosophers because we invest into language more than what language actually is, which is a tool for thinking, creating, and...

They are ineffable, so they have no opportunity to be beliefs at all, and therefore no occasion to be justified. Ineffable truths are never believed. ...

What is one example of a subset of the natural numbers that cannot be expressed by language? Also note that mathematical notation is a kind of extensi...

No, it is never that, never 4d chess. 4d chess is almost always the wrong answer. I think the idea is always "stability", where "stability" is implici...

Also "immediate cause" or "proximate cause". My voice directly stimulates cochlea, or a electronic sensor. By your "metaphysics", a twitch of an index...

But you quibble here? Why is your metaphysics "quibbling" in one context, but in the more important context of misinformation it is somehow relevant? ...

To the extent ignorance is "enslavement", it is an enslavement imposed on oneself (assuming free access to information). While deception is "enslaveme...

So the speech, which caused the electrical signal that the software passed and interpreted, did not cause the lights to turn off? The software did? Or...

That speech has casual power beyond air vibrations is trivially obvious. Smart home systems are a clear modern example. Or, train a child to believe X...

Ownership is a triadic relationship between owner, owned, and society that ratifies the ownership. Between owner and owned, we think and behave differ...

You don't repress for repressions sake. The above is not an edge case, it is the main case. They might brand the governments collusion with the neo Na...

Ridiculously overbroad definition. Misinformation and disinformation are * Either knowingly false, or told with indifference to their truth * Told for...

What it is like to experience. This is seen by the inverted colors thought experiment. Suppose your internal experience of colors was inverted to ever...