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@cosmiccitizen Only know some fancy fact about the posterior cingulate cortex: if you ultrasound-stimulate it, you get much better at meditation[1]

[1]: tricycle.org/article/brain-sti

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Alignment is *obviously* solvable

why do people keep claiming it isn't

@galena LEM states that not not X is the same as X

So not accepting the LEM means that punkpunk isn't just normiedom

haro in Esperanto means “single hair”. “hararo“ maeans “collection of many hairs“. “harari” is the corresponding verb.

wait WHY is “book” “libro” in esperanto, but “library” is *not* “libraro” but “biblioteko”? Huh???

ugh I hate it I am allied with people who propose the clipper chip but for GPUs

maybe for good reason but man I dislike the aesthetic and will continue to only do technical stuff

von Neumann and Morgenstern are a joy to read :-D

Surely nobody has ever gerrymandered a concept

If all of humanity had made it the central focus to figure out quantum physics in 1910 before 1915, would they have been able to?

Once I believed that the paper Progress Measures for Grokking via Mechanistic Interpretability had found the network grokking onto the Schönhage-Strassen algorithm on the task of modular multiplication, not on modular addition around the circle

transhumanist win, breastfeeding 

@timorl Huh. TIL

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@augustus

pros:
- might spur the development of new technology

cons:
- millions would die
- nature and ancient history would be destroyed
- a land invasion of either country would be insanely difficult
- there's no point
- government would give itself even more emergency powers
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