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Husband. Father. Sentient paperclip.

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I had no clue Alex Jones read tpot.

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My daughter in a third-world country: "Why are the roads so bumpy? They should work on the roads. Do they know how? Can we teach them?"

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@wrycountenance Lol, they don't yet know anyone would hate being too old.

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Kids are not a fan of the new game I invented: Who's the tallest?

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@eigenrobot Actually, being in control when the new rules are established is tremendously important!

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@robinhanson I think the question is being interpreted in a descriptive way. Today, we do not have norms to make this an option.

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In an airport again. Sitting on a bus behind a guy watching short form video. It's 1/3rd soccer videos and 2/3rds Danaerys clips. I had no idea how people used their phones. I'm never feeling guilty about being addicted to Twitter/chess again.

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Walking through an airport, and I'm shocked by how different people are. Some are tall and some are small. Some patiently wait in line, and some talk to LLMs on a speakerphone.

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@eigenrobot The late 20th century was characterized by idealogical conflicts. Capitalism vs communism. We retold WWII to be authoritarianism vs freedom. Economists spoke to those questions directly, but the 21st century is a war of shifting coalitions that only don isms out of habit.

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If I'm ever killed in a racially motivated attack, please retake Constantinople in my name.

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Number of people asking me to comment on the Henry Nowak case. His father said "We do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension". If you can't respect his wishes, you're scum. That's what I think.

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@Noahpinion So sad that China won't get the benefits of diversity.

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@RandomSprint these "jumps" in position are sometimes referred to as "random sprints". you'd be forgiven for thinking this is descriptive, but it's actually named after x user RandomSprint who popularized it. (same category of confusing etymologies as brown noise and the poynting vector.)

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Ask not what the algorithm can do for you. Ask what you can do for the algorithm.

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When I got my new job, I had to change my sleep schedule. I did so with a protocol of my own invention: CARBEM.

Can a red bull every morning.

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Son told me that I'm strange. "You have so many hobbies, but you almost never do them." He then precedes to list hobbies I do with the kids, like soccer with him and climbing with daughter.

"Bud, I play soccer with you a few times a week."

"But you want to do it more!"

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@LeityMatthew Yes (in this instance)

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Yes, "creepy" things happen the further North you go, but there's a scientific reason for this. When you're on the Earth's surface (or any spheroid), our universe encodes your position as a complex number corresponding to a position on a plane tangent to the south pole. The renderer draws a line from the north pole to this position, and you are displayed where this line intersects the sphere.

This works fine at lower latitudes, but closer to the North Pole even small movements result in large jumps in your true position. Yes, sometimes characters can "flicker" between positions. Yes, sometimes their "insides" and "outsides" will temporarily render as disconnected, disjoint elements.

But this is just math. Nothing creepy. It hardly ever results in daemonic possession.

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@AllTheClovers Yes. There's a reason penguins can live near the South Pole.

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@BecomingCritter @LizzyStarrrdust A man cave implies there's a woman who rules the rest of the house. It's actually very longhoused by opposition.

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@JosephZander It allows for nonconverging series to converge at the North Pole. You do NOT want your location to diverge. Ask me how I know.

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In the future after we uplift cows and give them the right to vote, democracy itself will be at steak.

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@OneEyedAlpaca I think his first book is great.