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@7 @helene wow, a guy looked at porn sites, that's insane

the existence of trans women is a godsend for the diversity of my reading list

effective altruist who works in fintech

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and we knew already that adversarial examples are often likely features, not bugs: arxiv.org/abs/1905.02175

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nitter.hu/giannis_daras/status verdict: doesn't feel surprising to me. adversarial examples apparently have some structure, which is (some) evidence against the natural abstraction hypothesis. we will end up having to extrapolate concepts

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Why am I more bullish on blockchain than SBF? I'm not *that* bullish on blockchain

putting webpages on the blockchain as backup

(this is an actual usecase!)

Non-fungible tokens, offline:

* Nobel prizes
* Olympic medals
* Military medals
* Signs in concert halls that tell you how much who donated to the hall (certificates of impact in general)

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Task: write a .docx paper for uni
Solution: spend 2 hours setting up "markdown -> pandoc -> docx -> master document with external title page" chain while being annoyed with LibreOffice styles and calling it a day, writing 0 characters of actual content :meow_noddies:

our next arecibo message should probably include the orders of the sporadic groups, just to show that we're somewhat advanced as a species.

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