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While some problems are actually solvable with just pencil and paper, this is not a requirement and the intention of the project is that problems will be solved with a combination …

The game is a bit weird. It often offers very bad deals, without an option not to invest. For example for the Gibraltar strait, the game gives the information that the probablity o…

I wouldn’t say that movies per se are parasocial, but if you behave and feel like you have a relationship with somebody in a movie, then it’s probably parasocial. To a degree it’s …

It not only doesn’t require interaction, the lack of interaction is what makes is parasocial.

I didn’t know the term sinosphere until now, thanks for making me aware of it.

As far as I know, it is possible to have the entry "ohne festen Wohnsitz"(without a permanent residence) instead of a mailing address in a German passport and he's legally not allo…

I just wanted to say, I stumbled upon your website a few years ago through the Tromp-Taylor rules of Go and found the things you do impressive and inspiring. It’s a nice surprise t…

I’m not talking about the AfD here, but trying to quickly answer the question how banning political parties can seen as justified in principle: Banning a political party is an impo…

That sounds more like the BahnCard 100, which costs 4.339 Euro per year. The Deutschlandticket is only valid for slow, regional trains, not faster long distance trains.

The thing that made me transition from a mindset of “I have a body” to “I am a body”, was actually Zen meditation. This was surprising to me. Before I tried it, I thought of medita…

Are you familiar with the Hacker News Guidelines ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html )? “What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. …

The German theatre world developed the opposite convention, “Bühne links” (literally "stage left”) means left from the perspective of the audience. I don’t know so much about the t…

A very imperfect analogy: Imagine alien scientists had studied humans, but only in prison, and then created a model of social behaviour around their observations of prison gangs wi…

The English word "police" actually comes from the Ancient Greek "polis". E.g. from the etymology section of the Wikipedia article on police: "First attested in English in the early…

Is this true? The author Charles Stross wrote "Your typical book publisher is not like the music or movie industry; they run on thin margins, and they're staffed by underpaid, over…

IMO Worth the Candle ( https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/25137/worth-the-candle ) is the one exception.

There is a note on Aaronson’s blog post: "[Note for people who might be visiting this blog for the first time: I’m a CS professor at UT Austin, on leave for one year to work at Ope…

As far as I know, Scott Aaronson has been on leave from UT Austin to work on theoretical foundations of AI safety at OpenAI since June 2022: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6484

Yeah, a lot of historical swords like the Roman gladius or the longsword actually had two edges. It's just effective weapon design (mainly it makes it better at thrusting), not a d…

This blog by a classicist claims that the word salary is indeed coming from the latin words salarium and sal, but that it is not clear what the connection is, that there is neither…

Yeah, but maybe you shouldn't model your conversations on Churchill: https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3109#comic