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I find the claim subjective experience may be illusory absolutely baffling. I can only speak for myself with certainty, but I am entirely sure I have subjective experience. All the…

> The report complains that when asked about the age of the universe, AIs just give the scientific consensus answer of 13bn years, never mentioning that young earth creationists be…

Both are damaging and shouldn't be normalized, for similar reasons.

When I grew up, I was taught that if someone in your friend group makes a racist joke, you should stand up to them, and inform them that casual racism leads to normalizing racism. …

Yeah that wasn't meant to be an accurate transcript of a whole conversation, just wanted to sketch out the ideas involved. The "kill all men" bit would come after getting to know t…

It feels like there's almost no engagement with the actual claims I'm making. From the original claim of, "Nobody really thinks men are the cause of most of societies problems." My…

I don't know what exactly you're asking by "Who are the people I have these conversations with?" They were real-life in-person interactions, most often with young women I knew in c…

I am not claiming my experience generalizes here. But my experience was absolutely saturated by a narrative that men are oppressors who are the cause of many/most of the ills of so…

I grew up with the sentiment that forms of masculinity are some of the chief evils of society being the dominant narrative. I grew up learning that the US is patriarchal culture, a…

As far as I can tell all the data on loneliness points to equivalent rates between genders

It seems salient to ask the follow up question of "Why aren't men getting laid and/or married?" Actually finding the root cause may be much less simple. Your response seems as hand…

It seems totally inconceivable to me that you could accurately predict how long until we will know whether BB(7) is greater than Graham's Number.

By representing all numbers with lists (or sets). 0 = [] 1 = [True] 2 = [True, True] Etc. Then for example addition becomes appending two lists together

What about "we were cut from the deal"? It seems like you could make a phrase in which 'cut' means "to exclude"

I got h = c(c)(c)(c)(c), just by playing around with it

`wat(foo)` also works. The author says he implmented the `wat / foo` syntax to allow you to more quickly use wat by avoiding parentheses

A charitable interpretation of nico is that he was saying a well-trained NN is itself a model of the world. If it can tell you what a system will do given some inputs, then it func…

Well I mean the reason you can't optimize away the stack frame is that at any point during runtime f can be redefined to be a different function. In the above example, do you agree…

Let's say you had a library function foo, which takes no arguments, does an expensive computation, and then prints a single result to the console. You need the function to instead …

I think that the first amendment prevents congress from banning tiktok for the reason that the content is objectionable. Instead they would need to argue that it is a nation securi…

Yes, I believe that this is due to how python lets you dynamically redefine functions even to violate lexical scoping. So in the author's example: def f(x): if x > 0: return f(x-1)…

Some of the motivation for this comes from how often devs want to contribute to open source but are intimidated by how difficult the barrier of entry is, particularly for large pro…

Iirc California has the most "nice" days on average of any state. "Nice" = between around 60°-80°F and Sunny. If you want to spend the whole year outdoors California is the best st…

I would recommend `zod` as a good typescript schema runtime validation library as well. It does require strict type checking to be on however.

Presumably because the author feels that simply characterizing the anti-crypto position as bearish doesn't do justice to the animosity many people hold towards crypto. He's also no…