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one sim-(10^13 cells) in a meatsuit

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On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines In recent years, a number of prominent computer scientists, along with academics in fields such as philosophy and physics, have lent credence to the notion that machines may one day become as large as...

arxiv.org/abs/1703.10987

– is what you get when you decode with the wrong encoding. So it's plausible the data's fine and just being interpreted wrong, in which case I'd be wary about changing the data, which could corrupt it, rather than tweaking the software reading the data.

56% recognition today.yougov.com/topics/enter...

What does the vertical axis mean?

This is terrific

When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media (December 2025) - Individuals might experience negative utility from not consuming a popular product. With such externalities to nonusers, standard consumer surplus measures, which take aggregate cons...

New evidence to your point: "Our findings highlight the existence of product market traps, where active users of a platform prefer it not to exist." www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Bingo! I looked all over and was starting to think I'd dreamt it. Thank you!

Is that true? Pangram is supposed to be pretty good. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"They can afford to walk away. And doing so would give them something money can’t buy: the credibility to make corruption the central issue of the next election."

I would like to hear more about this mechanic. Why can't they just accept money from large donors and not let it affect their policies?

"Give me a reason"

Receipts please

Matthew Yglesias on X: "Administrative data >> https://t.co/PCZNae6aA8 https://t.co/A6IInlWyuW" / X Administrative data >> https://t.co/PCZNae6aA8 https://t.co/A6IInlWyuW

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Can you tell where the latency is coming from?

I'm sure this is the only issue like that though, right

In other words

Tiktok/Instagram is different from Facebook in various ways. Also idk if teens is the age group of primary interest. So I'm not sure.

Are you asking for an example of a secret that hasn't leaked? :-)

The literature is bad?

Could you elaborate on "Accountable PUCs"?

Cheers

Yeah ok I see where you're at.

I see, yes, that's true.

Under communism or whatever, if people benefit from taking stuff from the state for personal gain, there still needs to be a way to keep them from doing that, right?

Oops I messed up the threading

Of course, there are other products at stores. Soap, toilet paper, and carrots will also be taken. So we won't be able to buy those? This is becoming a problem. How are we going to solve this?

Yes. So if we follow your proposal of having no police, then that's off the table.

But then people will take all the sunglasses, and stores will not be able to sell sunglasses and we will not be able to buy sunglasses at stores. That's a loss, but a small one; I don't really need sunglasses.