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I find myself believing less in the great filter. My comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43712645 explains why.

There's only the fact that we probably just CANNOT perceive extremely advanced civilizations. An insect crawling around a 75 year old brick house that is covered in ivy and moss wi…

Chemistry and reactions would absolutely still be a thing. Reactions happen underwater all the time such as the complex decay of organic matter. The fire meta get's postponed until…

last time they did that people stuck with bitcoin classic instead of the larger block size variant of bitcoin which today is known as bitcoin-cash.

I agree. Shareholders can vote and decide the direction of a company. They should also be held liable for any problems the company causes. If the company is fined it should come ou…

Sometimes low barriers result in better results. If the rent in a city is too high you are not going to get the MOST interesting restaurants, bars, and clubs. You are going to get …

> Re: "this is not a counter example because exams aren't an end goal..." for any end goal with a set end time there are habits that need to be second nature and information that o…

You absolutely would never hire a coder that needs to google "how to access an array by index" every-time they need to access an index of an array. You can say a politically correc…

You absolutely can. I remember struggling with some problems on AOPS and then reading in a book "always consider smaller $n$ when dealing with a problem that is difficult because o…

I'd say if someone can't do calculus based statistics then a lot of high earning career paths (ex: machine learning, data science, actuary, quant) are not available to them. That d…

This comes down to the old saying "everything is memorization at the end of the day". Some people literally memorize answers. Other folks memorize algorithms. Yet other folks memor…

if you can quickly outsource a solution of P=NP for me I'd love it. Surely that's as simple as balancing a checkbook. I'm not saying everyone needs to know math but its hardly "ves…

Being too early is a privilege. Not everyone CAN invent things that are valuable but ahead of their time. If you can then on the one hand don't expect tremendous accolade but also …

is this madcow part 2?

This is going to have very interesting implications. The article here: https://www.getmonero.org/2024/04/27/fcmps.html compares it from having an anonymity set of 12 to 1,000,000. …