niplav @niplav@schelling.pt
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I operate by Crocker's rules[1].
Joined Aug 2021
Alien machinery-ism
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love to momentarily struggle with peeling a banana and feel like an abject disgrace to my taxonomic order
*youth bikkhu voice* "Do you want to know who the real original illusionist was?"
In 2022, I won't read a single blogpost
Only PDFs, physical books, Wikipedia & SEP pages
It is quite hard to simulate a cubic millimeter of birdwing
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I kid you not. Not having an internet connection at home feels liberating. Internet was a mistake 
A lightyear is only 10^16 meters! I expected it to be more, intuitively
ISO prefix avo for 10²³
fob: (ten to the) fifty-one bits
ng.mil
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Happy World Standards Day, a day where the entire world celebrates international standardization... well, the entire world except the US, which celebrates this on October 22nd 😂
(I wish I was kidding)
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f(x,y) = ((((x * y) * (y ^ x)) + ((22 / x) - (y % x))) ^ (((y * y) - (-x)) - ((~y) & (y - x)))) % 7
Extent: 256x256 (scaled x2)
"Onebit" colouring scheme.
The existence of paradoxes implies the existence of paratechnes, paragnoses and paraepistemes.
Have you tried building accurate models of the World and acting on them?
"This is not the dystopia you're looking for."
"This isn't the dystopia we're looking for."
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he was coughing & I asked him why
he said it was cuz his neck could fly
he had a soar throat
he said it was cuz his neck could fly
he had a soar throat
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the gender prediction model thingy doesn't account for voluntarily taking the test, which is obviously a female trait. you can all add 10% to your female score
Scott Alexander writes onto-semantic fiction
Second-order cringe
Sometimes eating an orange is like eating an actual fruit, sometimes it's like eating the leathery body of a small winged animal killed with an improvised slingshot on a wave-torn rock some 860 miles west of elephant island while dissecting the horizon for smoke from a cargo ship.
Serious post: if you plan on buying a diamond "as an investment", consider not doing that.
Humans can produce lab diamonds at 10% of the price and higher purity than natural , and I expect the process to improve on both axes. And making a synthetic diamond dirtier is way easier than purifying a natural one. There's also some developments in making quite big synthetic diamonds.
So yeah, if you're buying a diamond *as an investment*, you're speculating on market irrationality.
- Website
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- Pronouns
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I operate by Crocker's rules[1].
Joined Aug 2021
