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Update on our stance, @goat got upset at the "waste of fissile materials" that she "could otherwise eat" so instead we will be mailing dead insects to mastdonapp.uk and performing advanced remote necromancy spells to bring plagues upon their crops.

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I swear, if I read characterizations that ainotkilleveryoneists worry about AI systems "enslaving" humans...

We allot a tiny tiny probability to that outcome, I personally less than 0.1% int the long term

YOOO THE ACTOR OF THE MAIN CHARACTER FROM VGHS MARRIED THE ACTRESS PLAYING HIS LOVE INTEREST

Concept: Codex but fine-tuned on ticket description & diff pairs, for debugging instead of new code

beliefs are position, epistemology is speed

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Ofc not the actual causal reason but the framing is not misleading or unvirtuous

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My (51M) microservices (>1000RPCs) have unionized

I think the "metabolic privilege" idea is roughly correct; I come from a family with very little obesity (my brother lives and eats like shit and is still in amazing shape: not jacket but 0 fat)

I can eat whatever however much I want and I don't gain any weight, now I'm trying strength training thrice ax week to see whether that has any effects

OK no more math back to harassing women

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@TetraspaceGrouping I assume on Twitter it's a poll, so

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Group theory was a lucky subject. At its beginning, there were no group axioms, just lots of successful mathematical ideas and theorems. But then there were axioms, which were cemented by Cayley's Theorem (probably the earliest instance of the Yoneda Lemma, before category theory was invented).
Cayley's Theorem says that every group is a subgroup of a permutation group, and the proof is deceptively simple, just as that of the Yoneda Lemma.
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An inordinate fondness of Newcomblike problems and arguing

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