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This is fiendishly clever; you more than made up for a lack of technical skills by exploiting the wetware angle. Lovely little story :)

I absolutely love that this is not some parody of cyberpunk fiction, but instead reality.

On a VAX no less! Can't imagine there's an HFT arbitrage opportunity for such "slow" tech.

I, too, grew up on the first-ever Zoombinis game. I actually recently played through it again almost 15+ years later. Everything from the sound effects to the visuals is seared som…

Thanks for the reply! I didn't know the standardized IPA was in fact with an "r." Strange though, because to me the umlauted-o sound is probably one of the easiest German pronuncia…

That "Girdle" pronunciation is like nails on a chalkboard! The umlaut is an oo (or ue ) sound. There is no "r" anywhere! As both a philosophy student and German speaker, whenever m…

As a philosophy major, at my university we do so in our "Advanced Symbolic Logic" class. However, the depth with which you engage with Gödel's theorem depends on the professor teac…

To add to that: Clickteam's Multimedia Fusion 2 Developer, which I learned to make games with back in elementary school. It is strictly (although not exclusively) "no code." Hell, …

That document you linked is fascinating. It's especially relevant to me because I'm currently taking a class through my university's pharmacy department on drug discovery and devel…

That is an absolutely fascinating application that I've never considered before. One could design all sorts of experiments, not just exclusively spatial reasoning. Imagine allowing…

The incompetence originates from the disregard of the parent commenter's question/concern. It's the result of not engaging in good faith with your student, not necessarily the conc…

I'm sorry an incompetent professor left such a bad taste in your mouth, and on the field as a whole. What's strange to me, is that my interpretation of the results of such an exper…

Just wanted to say that I always enjoy seeing a t3x.org link pop up on the front page of HN. Your site is one of the few "regulars" that I always enjoy seeing a new update from; yo…

> There is no space to drive my tractor collection around. I am glad to see a comment like this on HN, despite the impression that everyone here is an SV-focused tech bro. Sometime…

When discussing this exact topic with classmates this semester (philsophy undergrad in a medieval philosophy class that is doing a lot with the interplay with theology) I've used t…

By damn, I just love when the big kahunas still involve themselves in the community they cultivated so long ago. Cheers, Sam; the best of luck to you and the team at YC.

Haha. Well said. That's a clever take. I suppose if the "original" humans came from a universe as hellish as Warhammer 40K, ours would seem like a cakewalk!

I don't think you intended your first remark to sound like this, but I'd imagine the same could be said of us from the perspective of a highly advanced interstellar species: how di…

If I grokked the parent right, it's not that we are living in a simulation, but that the apex of development for a species is effectively becoming a simulation. Now, whether that i…

My girlfriend got me this book for Christmas! It's an absolute trip. Some of the Area 51 patches (for black site tech development, etc) have such surprising on-the-nose humor regar…

Shapiro! I'm actually in Advanced Symbolic Logic (PHILOS 5500) this semester and he happens to be teaching it. Talk about Hacker News serendipity. Tennant isn't my advisor, but I'v…

This theory, although fantastical, appears to fall in line with what little is known about Cotten. The kind of person to run a quarter-billion dollar operation solely from their la…

I've only just skimmed the first section, and already I feel like I'm in for a trip. The math is indeed as approachable as you suggest. I'm only a philosophy major (though our logi…

I am so happy I decided to stumble into the comments section for this article. Your contribution of this short story by Borges is almost sublime in its essential similarity to the …