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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

It's pronounced pain quah-lay. The plural of quale is qualia. Qualia are the irreducible, private, ineffable properties of an experience. They don't exist.

If I could start over again I would not pick a name that, with the insertion of just two letters, becomes the nightmare Palin-Quayle ticket.

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Here are some comments of mine that I like.

Science

Why blue LEDS look so bizarre
Why can't I imagine hearing frequencies outside my range of hearing?
How to be a virtuous person
How to visualize fiction
Fodor and evolutionary theory
Paper-rock-scissors programs

Criticism

On Lars von Trier
On No Country For Old Men, 2
On AI
On Umberto Eco on Dan Brown

Philosophy

How to get excited about philosophy
Prior probabilities of the conditions of the universe
A consistent time travel plot
A crazy solution to the liar paradox
The ethics of various meats
Eating meat and collective action problems
The rights of the dead
On the Joker and fictional agency, 2
Belief as a performative
God and the axiom of choice
Oh, so you're a philosopher?

Other

My favorite joke
Crossword resources, 2
Six word sci-fi story (MeFi themed)