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Posted by jobautomator

19 Comments

  1. This thread, like all others, is now part of the domain of the demiurge. There is no escape.

  2. Drinka_Milkovobich on

    Zoomers will never understand Gidget the M***** porn and that’s a good thing

  3. Drinka_Milkovobich on

    Roko’s Basilisk better not be real because otherwise I’m going in the contraption 

  4. We should keep the amount of rent seeking exactly the same but it should only benefit me and nobody else

  5. Apprehensive_Bee5430 on

    Over the past couple years I have read something like six different social science books that started with super promising and thought-provoking arguments, then veered off into a little cul de sac about how “neoliberal economics” *of course* has reduced human beings to atomized drones incapable of reflection or self-actualization, before returning to the original argument as though nary a word was ever uttered about neoliberalism in the first place.

    Is this just something writers on the left do because they feel like they’re supposed to, like when basketball players let the inbounded ball roll most of the way to midcourt before picking it up, even though this only saves 0.3 seconds of time and anyway who cares because it’s midway through the first quarter

  6. Drinka_Milkovobich on

    Wild that it took so long for humans to git gud at probability

    Like, path dependent outcomes are so relevant to daily life, farming, war, etc that I would assume it gets calculated early on in history but no we figured out meaningless number theory first (I say this as someone with a cryotography background)

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