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mjreacher

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About mjreacher

Undergrad student interested in many things

Recent public activity

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    I wonder if there is any connection of this being on the front page today with this paper [0] being uploaded on arXiv today or if it's just pure coincidence. [0]: https://arxiv.org…

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    Tell HN: Happy New Year

    2024 has been a wild year, both in technology and within the wider world, and 2025 could yet be crazier, so I wish everyone here on one of the real great forums of the internet the…

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    Comment #40832340

    Marina vN Whitman had the book in her possession so I suppose they visited her and got access to it that way. I emailed her back in 2022 about it and she said she was planning on s…

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    Comment #40830070

    I've seen her unpublished memoir, A Grasshopper in Very Tall Grass, quoted in quite a few places and it definitely seems worth publishing, such a shame no publisher has taken any i…

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    Comment #36453838

    A short thread giving an overview of the report mandated by Congress: https://twitter.com/jseldin/status/1672390899718840322

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    Comment #35833631

    By the sounds of that article there needs to be more work done on applying abstract notions of complexity to the real world and developing suitable methods for this.

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    Comment #35583220

    Parent post doesn't distinguish between those. It just annoys to see people always talking about governmental or corporate bureaucracy but when it comes to intelligence agencies su…

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    Comment #35583103

    > spying on allies That is one of the exact purposes those agencies exist for in almost every country of the world. > possibly misleading the public about casualty numbers The numb…

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    Comment #35583034

    Ukraine's Western supporters can propose a ceasefire but why would either side agree to one? Putin seems to be in it for the long haul, he probably knows Western support for Ukrain…

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    Comment #35582852

    They literally openly admitted it last November. You can say the special forces part is new but that isn't the point being made by most, which is about US troop boots on the ground…

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    Comment #35582829

    If ICs were already all over major social media like Discord, then how did these leaks sit spread around unnoticed for almost half a year? I swear every time this comes up people's…

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    Comment #35412210

    On the contrary, John von Neumann was not known to sleep much at all and he was well known for being the fastest thinker alive in his time.

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