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Oh, cool, Open Philanthropy is doing scholarships for effective altruist international students doing degrees at top US/UK universities openphilanthropy.org/focus/oth

If any of you want to solve AI safety (or animal farming, or global poverty, or...) and could do with having an undergrad degree from Oxford but are deciding not to because it would be too expensive and you live outside the UK, check it out

I'm here to build aptitudes and kick ass, and I'm all out of ass

Current goals:

* Awakening to the true nature of existence und relinquishing all suffering by meditating 2 hours a day
* Having great sex with hot chicks by talking to them on the street and getting ripped
* Solving the AI alignment problem by, uhh, let's find that one out (it'll involve learning math, I think)

I put on my best reference class tennis outfit

@icedquinn The thing I'm thinking of is theguardian.com/cities/2019/ju

"blantantly overdetermined" is because of this tantalizing line:

> savings in emergency healthcare, social services and the justice system totalled as much as €15,000 a year for every homeless person in properly supported housing

Looking deeper it just seems like subsidized housing with social workers living there or something?:

> they can’t be moved unless they break the rules [...] or fail to pay the rent

wonder if there's a catch to that finland homelessness thing or whether simply giving people houses is blatantly overdetermined and I should become the giving people houses guy

*looks at the thing for a while* yeah I have no idea. I’m as bixicated as you are

wearing a ring of fire and ring of ice in DCSS to combine them into a ring of lukewarm

if i were the sultan of qud in 1 BR i would have simply closed the gyre and ended the plagues without dissolving the sultanate

if social media was dissolving my social fabric i would simply refrain

visual novel in which the character guides you through a moral issue by asking tricky questions with 4 options that highlight edge cases and contradictions in a humorous manner

I believe deep in my soul that the reason tsoruno yui demanded a number on the quality of banbanzai’s food is so she could multiply it by a probably to calculate an expected utility

magia record spoilers 

and wow that final boss fight against mami that was something

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