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"!4$ is sometimes used as a shorthand version for [bang for the buck]"

:blobcatlul:

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im such a prawncoded krillmaxxing crustaceanpilled shrimpcel

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Gonna start calling frogs "mudpuppies"

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Alignment is *obviously* solvable

why do people keep claiming it isn't

haro in Esperanto means “single hair”. “hararo“ maeans “collection of many hairs“. “harari” is the corresponding verb.

wait WHY is “book” “libro” in esperanto, but “library” is *not* “libraro” but “biblioteko”? Huh???

ugh I hate it I am allied with people who propose the clipper chip but for GPUs

maybe for good reason but man I dislike the aesthetic and will continue to only do technical stuff

von Neumann and Morgenstern are a joy to read :-D

Surely nobody has ever gerrymandered a concept

If all of humanity had made it the central focus to figure out quantum physics in 1910 before 1915, would they have been able to?

Once I believed that the paper Progress Measures for Grokking via Mechanistic Interpretability had found the network grokking onto the Schönhage-Strassen algorithm on the task of modular multiplication, not on modular addition around the circle

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@augustus

pros:
- might spur the development of new technology

cons:
- millions would die
- nature and ancient history would be destroyed
- a land invasion of either country would be insanely difficult
- there's no point
- government would give itself even more emergency powers

Sending this to deletionist admins every day until they stop

…and of course the person has mainly deletions as their contributions

this is how internet knowledge dies

well then I'll go back to my own Wikipedia with coke and hookers[1]

[1]: niplav.github.io/

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