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UNESCO has deleted two world heritage sites from their database ever whc.unesco.org/en/news/522/, but didn't really explain why

Mathematical theory of hypothesis formation: who's working on this?

Characterize the spectrum between the inductive and the deductive

You probably use your salt shaker hundreds of times a year.

When did you last clean it?

Rest in peace, Niklaus

May your law be reversed

The worldcoin people might want to make their orbs easier to find

I could be the first person to combine daygame and situationism

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I'd expect advanced Kardachev≥1 civilizations to stochastically wiggle their most important assets & their defenses, to avoid attacks from very far away

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explaining capitalism to my friends: imagine an autistic transbian polycule,
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we all love a good autistic transbian polycule. i just happen to love the one with +3σ int and an extremely productive corporation attached,

Need for cognition:Charisma::Need for social interaction:Intelligence

Privatizing Antarctica with severance taxes to fund global UBI

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I refuse to learn what it means for a function to be "onto". Just say 'injective' or 'surjective' like a normal person.

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Nenn mich Weimarer Republik weil meine Verfassung ist echt nicht grade die Beste

We must secure the lightcone for all future beings that share our cosmopolitan values

Semiquine (a program that only outputs its code, but never halts); prefixquine (program that outputs its code, but something after that). Trivial other versions are postfixquine, substringquine, prefixsemiquine.

The existence of Ramanujan is pretty weird, as far as cognitive systems go.
Like, what process made him literally dream up correct elliptic integrals?

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