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It produces neutrons and exploding atoms, so it has already turned out shit.

I have no idea what this article is talking about, but if there are two plausible representations for the whatever-it-is, why not allow it to be represented both ways ?

> if Russia somehow gets a successor, he (or she) would stop the war, blame everything on Putin, beg for lifting of sanction and resuming the trade. If the war stops, deliveries wi…

Gatekeeper ? https://github.com/AltraMayor/gatekeeper/wiki

https://archive.ph/imxwA

> In the End, Climate Change Is the Only Story That Matters Hang on, just let me check the goalset.... Nope, nothing in there about what temperature the paperclips should be.

Maybe they're referring to increased migration from the Global South ?

New UK houses would all be cavity-wall so is there a reason the inside of the exterior wall isn't being used as the source ?

Late addition: It's actually worse than that. If we take a population with only median and maximum talents, the probabilities for each event are: halving: p=0.5, doubling because m…

Garbage model, garbage methodology. Their model has a set of agents with a 'talent' normally distributed between 0 and 1 (mean 0.6, SD 0.1). Each agent gets a random series of doub…

> 20% of PhD-granting institutions in the United States supplied 80% of tenure-track faculty members 80:20 The Pareto Principle at work. All these figures show is that universities…

In a later video he goes back and checks with a better sonar, and gets the same results. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDskXBfyNes

Actually, it's about 35 fathoms.

As others have pointed out, the computations are currently infeasable. The rest of the plan works though, it would just need to be done with actual atoms.

"A human being should be mediocre at everything" Great advice there.

Are there any plans to remove threading from python ? A year or two ago I read up on the various efforts to make a fast, more parallel CPython, and one of the core underlying probl…

Adding "LARPing as evolution" to the list...

Some kind of priesthood based around tinned food and geiger counters.

Corporations don't have rights.

Next up, New International to King James. Bonus Butlerian Jihad: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=joshua+8%3A28&v...

Speaking of such, during a rousing game of backgammon I did have occasion to refer to my opponent as a "Paddy", but I cannot believe that my use of "That Gaming Term" could cause s…