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The schelling point

Only some graphs can be embedded in ℝ², but every finite graph can be embedded in ℝ³.

This is really cool! It's immediately obvious and still weird, why is ℝ³ privileged in this way?

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that's perhaps the reason why people start talking effective acceleration and claim EA isn't "glorious transhumanist future" enough

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the vibe you get from the online ea aesthetic is somewhat different from the vibe you get from it in person

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if anything indicates anything, the french are now to be feared.

tetlock findings largely replicate, anon blogger reports

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Searching for the best unicode character, quaternary search by codepoint.

Round 3.

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⬆️ would be solved by conditional prediction markets

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Some people really want to embody the online georgist spirit when talking about prediction markets

Sending a 10 GB file from one computer to another is not trivial.

Civilizational inadequacy

forecaster culture, lesswrong culture, 9front culture, pragmatic dharma culture, ea culture, longsite culture, postrat culture, qri culture, suckless culture, wikipedia culture, daygame culture, quantified self culture, anki culture

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Announcing Annoucing: A new Organisation for Automatically Announcing

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