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The Kolmogorov complexity of a mathematical result is the length of the shortest proof that will be accepted for publication in a journal.

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The dream was for all scientific literature to be open access, hyperlinked, and when possible, rigorously checked by software that could catch errors (e.g. proof assistants).

Instead, we get software that spews out faux-coherent garbage, adding errors, polluting the infosphere.

when something big rights itself by rolling over

the ends justify the means if and only if the ends actually justify the means

sry i promise i'll stop after this one 

has sbf read the sequences

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2021 was DeFi

2022 was NFTs

2023 will be Tokenized Polycules

Soon everyone will have the power to align incentives across all the different rankings in their "imperial chinese harem" polycule.

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When I was much younger, I found these words called "ontology" and "epistemology". And I thought, holy shit this is awesome. But, nobody fucking cares. The fucking THING or whatever is much more fun. Satisfied pigs.
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Using Ebbinghaus grid for training turning attention off but keeping awareness on

Lifting weights is such an autistic way of doing exercise holy shit

Scott Aaronson must be protected at all cost

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naked
my best friend
hugging my knees closer

How do you reward someone who improves the method of credit assignment in Society?

How do you reward someone who improves the estimate of the accuracy of Societies credit assignment method?

Anyone using that phrasing understands nothing.

Nothing!

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