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The perceptual field is really non-local, things can affect things far away in awareness

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C library functions are always like: "SYNOPSIS. This function converts foos into bars depending on the user locale. ARGUMENTS. src and dest pointers must be distinct; it is undefined behavior if they are not QPU-aligned. RETURN VALUE. Returns the number of foos converted. A zero value indicates failure, or that zero foos were converted. A negative value indicates that the final foo was only partially converted (function got tired). Check this global variable to find out why."

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Hooley dooley.

This post is about a "found-in-the-wild" small Turing machine (3-states, 4-symbols), that halts --- after an Ackermann function-level number of steps; using Knuth's up-arrow notation, more than
\[ 14 \uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow 14
\]
and in fact we know exactly how many!

sligocki.com//2024/05/22/bb-3-

Got told "you're good at coding, that's so hot"

My teenage self just got a heart attack

If you were world emperor, GWP growth would change by:

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If you use

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style Markdown headings, you can get a document outline in ed(1) by using

g/^#/n

@rime you were looking into lie detectors and their SOTA, right? Any good resources?

I've become convinced this might be really really important, thanks to you

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My job has made me into a TBI truther. Brain injuries are devastating to cognition, self-regulation, and a bevy of other health outcomes. It's linked to a zillion bad social outcomes.

Forget about every other factor that determines human development outcomes: forget about genes, IQ, pollution, whatever. All of that shit is easily washed out by one good fall off of a bike. But unlike genes, we can actually do something about protecting brains.

Maybe use Napoleon as an example for superintelligence instead of von Neumann

For everyone listening: eugenicsonsteroids.com is available

How do we know that nuclear weapons exist?

I've never seen one

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Why "Israeli"? Why not "Israelian" ? Why not "Australi" ?
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