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Interests: Cryonics, Mathematics, History, Chess, Philosophy, Polemics

Current Economic Thoughts

(Physics and Causality)How Fast Do Influences Spread?

Historical Comparison of Early Eastern and Western Development

The MWI Explanation for EPR

The Pit and the Duplicate

Philosophic Use of Newcomb's Paradox

The Birth of the Flying Saucers

Continuity: The Last Refuge of the Soul

Why Duplicates Are Self: A Proof

The Dissolution of Identity

The 100 Urns Problem

Godel's Proof in One Sentence

Contravariant and Covariant

The Blind Programmer

Covariance

Correlation

"Criminal behavior arises from inevitable tendencies determined by the organic constitution of the delinquent." - Cesare Lombroso

Feigenbaum's Number: 4.669201609102...
(Many books, including "The Beauty of Fractals", have it wrong.)
It's easy to remember as: 4.669 201 609 102 ..., (say it fast).

Definition: A
    resurrector
is a non-terminating program that perpetually analyzes all known data concerning an individual's life and compares it to everything that is known. In so doing, a resurrector eventually provides additional runtime to vanished individuals.



Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's classic five stages of grief

         denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance

possess a precious anti-corollary. The five stages of regard for data not fitting your preconceptions:

         denial, dismissal, accomodation, interest, fascination