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@Paradox The last part is what's interesting about this: If I think about it in terms of AI or cognitive algorithms, he had ridiculously little training data and still his brain implemented an algorithm to extremely efficiently & effortlessly do math at an extremely high level.

Maybe math is just algorithmically shallower than we usually think?

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I refuse to learn what it means for a function to be "onto". Just say 'injective' or 'surjective' like a normal person.

@j2kun Eutopia.

Slightly more instrumentally: better algorithms!

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Nenn mich Weimarer Republik weil meine Verfassung ist echt nicht grade die Beste

@Aleums Oh, and just to make clear: I am not a Nazi.

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Hm. My understanding says something like "appropriating signifiers for horrible stuff to signifieds with benevolent content is diluting horrible stuff, but people might see you as dogwhistling"

I empathise with your revulsion, but I don't think I matter that much in the grand scheme of things, and I like performing edgy expression. Probably that's hard to mute, so maybe you don't want to follow me in that case?

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I see where you're coming from.

Dunno, I endorse the sentence I posted extremely strongly, and I anti-endorse the content of the 14 words

I guess I also like being a bit edgy

We must secure the lightcone for all future beings that share our cosmopolitan values

Semiquine (a program that only outputs its code, but never halts); prefixquine (program that outputs its code, but something after that). Trivial other versions are postfixquine, substringquine, prefixsemiquine.

The existence of Ramanujan is pretty weird, as far as cognitive systems go.
Like, what process made him literally dream up correct elliptic integrals?

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