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Who thought it was a good idea to put an ffi ligature in a monospace font smdh

(Nimbus Mono PS)

Learning from today: if you have an instant date that is going well, try to run the train all the way, same-day de-lays are probably harder than same-day lays

fuck it we're reading annihilation in czech

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this is mostly likely ⚠️ extremely ahistorical ⚠️ but anyway here's what it looks like when you take those rows and project them back into the past

other donors are kept as a constant % of non-billionaires

on top of this crypto donors are ÷10 before 2020 and ÷100 before 2017

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when you lose weight something like >70% of the weight you lose by breathing it out

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i have quoted
the s-expressions
that were nested
in the code

and which
you were probably
saving
for evaluation

forgive me
but the syntax
was so expressive
and so concise

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wish i'd more openly registered the opinion that EAs shouldn't date each other

nice to see that Ziz is living the maoist dream: stabbing landlords with samurai swords[1]

[1]: mobile.twitter.com/jessi_cata/

(note that the above is not strictly true: her *friend* stabbed the landlord, but I was willing to overlook that detail for snappiness)

Surprising that implementing ADAM with numpy is like 20 lines

I would've thought SOTA to be more complicated than that

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the peter thiel question, or "i'm gonna get downvoted for this"

harberger taxes on domain names with a simplicity prior.

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solarpunk slightly hindered by the fact that for solar panels and cutesy robots you need industrial-strength chipfabs that are so advanced we have like 6 of them in the entire world

Will I ask out the thick one

The Markovian argument against reparations

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we're paving over the reputational ecosystems with beautiful curves whose area sums to one, just watch

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I enjoy bash scripting, being a little cyber plumber whacking things with a giant monkey wrench

okay here's the plan

scale down:
• normal timewasting
• reading stuff
• trying to become an intellectual

scale up:
• meditation
• weightlifting
• sitting on benches
• asking out women

myabe also become a better software engineer because money might be relevant

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I believe that in effective altruism, deciding where funds are redirected by classic one-person-gets-one-vote methods would be hugely misguided. leading to coalitions appropriating resources, working against specialization etc. not against funders trying better mechanisms to elicit local knowledge, but applause-lighting “democracy” ain't gonna cut it

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