Unit Of Selection
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not enough of the great thinkers of our day stream their research on twitch
What to do with an efficient solution to NP-complete problems if you want to be... conservative: delete it and forget you ever had it. an anarchist: publish it simultaneously on many different platforms. a supervillain: spy on communications; steal money. dead: prove you have it.
If a political party controls more than 3/4 of the seats in a parliament, it can split to become both the majority party and the largest opposition party.
If you just believe in something hard enough, and you can change the world. Not much of the world, of course, but probably enough to let you continue to delude yourself.
a civilization game but whenever you discover a new tech there's a snarky voice like "railroads. you've invented railroads" or "currency. you've invented currency"
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am i fractally wrong? very well then i'm fractally wrong. i am complex, i contain multitudes that contain smaller multitudes of the same kind
the problem with towers is they treat the symptoms of gravity but not the underlying cause
mammals: "when someone makes noise, it breaks my concentration" also mammals: "baaaaa! baaaaaaaa! baaaaaaaa!"
Peeve: people claiming nonlinear preferences. So pretentious. If the first porridge was too hot, then obviously the coldest porridge would be optimal.
let's start calling robots "artificial dexterities" and bulldozers "artificial strengths"
Replacing a controllable thing with a magically good thing is a slightly good action, but there's a 90% chance of accidentally creating a magically bad thing instead.
I tried reading "War and Peace", but I couldn't get into it because of Tolstoy's utter disregard for realism. For example, the calendar year is off by a whopping two centuries.
A stopped clock is sometimes right about the time, never right about the speed of time, and always right about the acceleration of time.
our subjugation of wild beasts, who now exist for our entertainment in captivity, is surpassed only by our subjugation of vector spaces, who now serve as recommendation systems for our entertainment
My name's name is "name".
living space: 1 earth mass heating: 1 solar mass starlight: a trillion solar masses someone help me budget this, my civilization is dying
humanity is the kind of species that makes far more future tech trees for strategy games than for actual prediction and planning
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