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You are assuming that the market place of ideas selects for correctness rather than virality.

That would be a bold supposition, I think.

I mean, so were pretty much all of the best people in history. That's not a great filter for finding the next hitler, is it?

Recognizing that all people are, well, people would be a good first step on the road to ensuring that we dont all not become paperclips, right?

Yeah, I immediately started humming along with Johnny Paycheck. Imagine being a senior researcher at the peak of your career, working for 6 months to a year on a paper, submitting …

It can be used that way, but it doesn't have to; If I understand correctly, putting the votes on a single blockchain would protect the tally the same way it protects against double…

Make it screen-reader friendly. The modern web sucks for the visually impaired!

Yes

> For instance, I cannot say on reddit that BLM by definition checks off all boxes for a terrorist hate group because I will be banned. I would suggest that this is not true.

Look buddy, it is natural for an NP-Complete problem to be outside of your comfort zone (probably). e: well? he's polynomial

Well, that's not exactly fair; it does make testable predictions, which is nice, and they should be the kind of thing that we would notice anyway (IIUC) as we get bigger and better…

Whoa, slow down there, Satan.

I got a Nokia 8110 4g to use as a secondary phone during not-work times. Can't browse much on a phone with a tabless browser. Also, it is very 90s cool.

Seems like that would happen eventually whether or not NYT did anything, if SSC got famous enough. Though, I wouldn't dare to tell him how important the timeline of that is. It is …

This seems like the kind of thing a father might impose on a teenage child and have backfire hugely, not that this is your situation! Not to mention malicious pranks... However, if…

So suppose Urbit is genuinely useful. What is to stop someone from forking it, stripping out the obscurantism, writing friendly documentation, then redistributing galaxies/etc in a…

I feel really bad for this undergrad; The student's advisor did not do him any favors by letting him go and give this talk to the IEEE. It is perfect material for clickbait farms a…

Please do so! Based on this post, I believe you would do a great job.

In honor of Alabama's impending loss to LSU, I present ArcAttack! playing the Imperial March on Tesla Coils and a human being. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OdubOdFS-Y Also, Sha…

You could call it "Cartomancy" Because the map IS the territory, in this case.

He's a professor, though, and critcising the left is kind of his specialization.

I think that second sentence this isn't as obvious as the first.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yr-mO1o1uHk A relevant song from the Broadway show

Might get a lawyer to kick the tires on the contract language. I mean, ianal, but that cant be legitimate, can it?