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Kyle🌱 Jan 27
Fun fact: some people have an internal narrative and some don't As in, some people's thoughts are like sentences they "hear", and some people just have abstract non-verbal thoughts, and have to consciously verbalize them And most people aren't aware of the other type of person
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Tyrrell McAllister Jan 18
Replying to @robinhanson
There is a view that it's worse to glorify "wrong" sex than to glorify stealing because such sex is much more tempting to many more people. So, on the margin, a celebratory depiction of sexual assault turns many more viewers into assaulters.
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Tyrrell McAllister Jan 17
To live in the moment is to experience tap–tap–tap–, in which each tap is the carrying out of a mental motion that could be verbalized as "It is no longer thus. How is it now?" Continue until, –taptaptaptap..., there is nothing but a ceaseless casting aside of the past.
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Conal Pierse Jan 12
You arrive at a gate with two guards. Guard 1: Halt, traveler. You must solve our riddle to continue. Guard 2: ʰᵉʳᵉ ʷᵉ ᵍᵒ G1: ONE of us only tells the truth. The other only tells LIES. G2: jesus christ, Daniel, I said I was sorry.
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John Carlos Baez Jan 12
This simulation makes you wonder: could the Solar System be unstable? Will a planet eventually be thrown out of the Solar System? People have done a lot of work on this problem. It's hard. The Solar System is chaotic in a number of ways.... (1/n)
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John Carlos Baez Jan 11
A beautiful solution of the gravitational 4-body problem. But keep watching, because it's not stable!
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ClickHole Jan 10
Heartbreaking: This Guy Has No Idea That He’s So Strange And Memorable-Looking That Everyone From His Flight Is Using Him As A Landmark To Figure Out Which Baggage Claim Area Is Theirs
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Tyrrell McAllister Jan 10
No. The concern is that such texts tend to create common knowledge (in the Aumann sense) that everyone is thinking about certain of your group classifications all the time, especially regarding those group differences that have historically sparked coordinated violence.
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Kevin Simler Jan 9
I’ve been mentoring my 10-year-old nephew in programming. Some impressions (thread):
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Tyrrell McAllister Jan 9
Replying to @rmlhart1
Glass Wave (available in iTunes) has a song based on the Echo myth, and another one written from the perspective of Nausicaa.
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Tyrrell McAllister Jan 9
Replying to @rofitz17
You should give higher probability to the hypothesis that any change to the experimental conditions will destroy the effect. Eg, maybe it won't work on diabetics. Whereas, if you know that the causal pathway avoids that of diabetes, you can be more confident that it will work.
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Tyrrell McAllister Jan 9
Replying to @jessesingal
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Tyrrell McAllister Jan 9
Replying to @robinhanson
Or venomous, even.
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Tyrrell McAllister Jan 9
Replying to @robinhanson
Not on *any* examples? I don't know what "snake" means in any sophisticated sense. I'd probably misclassify many examples. But a herpetologist and I agree on enough examples that the herpetologist could disabuse me if I thought that no snake is poisonous.
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Tyrrell McAllister Jan 9
Replying to @robinhanson
A criterion of physicality shouldn't be necessary to have a discussion. (Besides, such a criterion would prob. make sense only within a metaphysical framework that you don't both share.) A discussion needs only one thing that you both agree is nonphysical but disagree on import.
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Shubhendu Trivedi Jan 8
Jordan curve theorem art:
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David Chapman Jan 9
. is an extraordinary, massive, persistent force of nature, like Jupiter’s Great Red Spot or something. Read his decade in review and be gobsmacked:
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Tyrrell McAllister Jan 9
Replying to @cvaldary
People want things to stay the same unless they themselves choose to change it.
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Tyrrell McAllister Jan 8
Replying to @samizstat @gwern
He mentions that subscripts aren't as easy on LW as they are elsewhere.
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Fermat's Library Jan 7
John Von Neumann once claimed that "with 4 parameters I can fit an elephant, and with 5 I can make him wiggle his trunk" This paper proves that John's claim is true!
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