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The good thing about niplav is that he just isn't that smart

@RobRoy i often don't show boosts from those accts or mute keywords, which helps a ton

Europe is performing autoerotic asphyxiation on a civilizational level

@timorl this is asituation of "too little slack is bad, too much is wasteful" & needs to be harmonized with the available free energy

Today I learned that some people use ℘ to represent the powerset.

Today was a good day, but that was a mediocre and disappointing move on humanity's part

"Space-Value Taxation under the Kerr-Newman Metric"

Positive update on effective altruists: I thought they wouldn't be able to update from technical AI alignment as a most important cause to a new cause X. It seems like that cause X is AI governance and the vibe shifted towards it.
Congrats! You've exceeded my expectations.

Oh cool we doing surreal consequentialism now?

I haven't thouhht about the game theory of it though

Alternative view: holidays just like dropout and makes orgs more robust

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It is possible to get more detailed information on employee performance by looking at semi-random holidays:

If their job is still ~getting done (or the department output isn't suffering much), then they're either not working very much or their job can be taken over by coworkers

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If I were constructing a system I would simply define each element, relationship, and process with rigor.

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أعمل حاليا على دعم المعادلات الرياضياتية العربية في ليبرأوفيس، النتائج مبشرة حتى الآن.

#LibreOffice #Arabic #math

Buying 4 Nvidia shares two years ago, and 2 more a year ago, was a really good move on my part

The more famous the person the worse the questions

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QA sessions and office hours are mostly dependant on the quality of questions

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