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the problem is politically appointed profs indoctrinating rather than educating students, I think to myself, resolving to spend 100 million dollars on a Western Civ center I can fill with conservatives teaching mandatory courses while the pols I bankroll axe "studies" departments and ban their ideas

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Look idk how how it all works, but if the AI industry is in some kind of bubble and this does cause some Not Good effects, the whole commentariat insisting this was a form of cope for three years will talk as though it was always obvious.

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Wait, there's both ‘Acer pseudoplatanus’ and ‘Acer platanoides’? Couldn't botanists come up with a better name than “maple tree that looks like a plane tree”? And to top it off: ‘Platanus × acerifolia’, “the plane tree whose leaves look like maple leaves”. 🙄 #ContextClub

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"Learning new, profound things simply takes time. It's painful. When I think hard about something and a new insight eventually comes, I can feel things being rewired in my brain. That physically hurts in my head." A beautiful quote from Peter Scholze about what it's like to do maths.

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