I have such fondness for the generic EA guy who’s just like “fewer children dying horribly would be good” and much less for the “filling the lightcone with digital brains on heroin is my only end” EA guys
@evanewashington EA day 1: if a child was drowning in a pond you’d jump in and save them, so…
EA day 5: if we tiled the Earth with a trillion children there’d be no room for hazardous ponds
If nothing else Mastodon is introducing people into the whole Open Source tradition of trying to be enthusiastic about something really bad that doesn't work at all because you don't want to be rude to the maintainers and the thing you really want to use doesn't work anymore.
I've been told I should tweet about my first-authored paper coming out but **not in a boring way** so here goes:
🔥A TARGETED SEARCH FOR MAIN BELT COMETS🔥
now on arXiv: https://t.co/t5Fwsb3q0C
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