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I don't think it's an overstatement to say that, since playing Lee Sedol in 2016, AlphaGo has completely revolutionized professional and amateur go. It's certainly not unprecedente…

Satoshi's original posts to the cryptography mailing list, and its members' responses are also of tremendous value. The chain starts at: http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptogra…

Sure, though I have to confess to trending more toward IT than anth, and being limited in exposure to my sub-discipline (cultural anthropology). Immediately after my time with Coin…

I was one of the remote hires brought on through the first Bitcoin SAT on Reddit. I recall completing the test and thinking "well, that was fun, but there's no way I aced it," part…

For those who might like to see this concept explored more fully, I highly recommend Greg Egan's Permutation City [0]. To quote: “Paul struggled to imagine the outside world on his…

Their peers will learn that 'screw ups' on whatever arbitrary scale, which are as common as human, will be punished by loss of employment, plus all of the negatives that status car…

Playing devil's advocate, my first response would be to register accounts for, say, the 2,500 most common English words and then compose some rather nice essays. @Yes, @something @…

Toward your latter paragraphs, I am reminded of the medieval practice of reflection on mortality, momento mori [0]. There is a great deal of extant architecture and art meant to in…

There are a few browser add-ons you might be interested in, for example Pentadactyl [0], or an entirely new browser like luakit [1], to return navigation control to the keyboard. A…

Ms. Peng's client is most certainly not the State. As a public defense attorney, her clients truly are the accused unable to retain private legal services - the indigent. As Ms. Pe…

The author at several points seems to dither between an insightful consideration of the technological present, and what I can only quantify as an underlying fear indicative of the …