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SSC: Addendum

Mar 2, 2021 3 min read

It’s wonderful how the mind has a way of cultivating clarity in the background, away from the gaze of the mind’s eye and as the mind itself is preoccupied with other thoughts, on matters considered on…

Slate Star Codex: No time for malice

Feb 25, 2021 11 min read

Analysis Culture Cade Metz doxxing Elizabeth Spiers fascism-curious New York Times rationalism rationalists Scott Aaronson Scott Alexander Scott Alexander Siskind Slate Star Codex view from nowhere will wilkinson

This post benefited from valuable input and feedback from Thomas Manuel. To the uninitiated: Scott Alexander Siskind is a noted member of the international community of rationalists and wrote the onc…

Elementary P v. NP

May 16, 2017 5 min read

Uncategorized computational complexity deus ex machina Elementary Joan Watson P versus NP prime factorisation Riemann hypothesis Robert Lipton Scott Aaronson Sherlock Holmes

One episode of the TV show 'Elementary' involves three mathematicians and a race to solve the P-versus-NP problem.…