it actually is making me a little crazy to see people treat “got a guy with the same name to get on the ballot” as the height of scandal. people have used more cutthroat tactics to win student council seats!

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The formalism allows for a ton more. Does it allow for impractical algorithms? Sure. But over and over we've seen that getting to polynomial can be hard but then it can be optimized down from galactic. Polytime is a seemingly invariant property over machine models and that itself is bizarre/cool

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Unfortunately, the modern US far-right's persecution of trans people isn't just *similar* to the nazi persecution of Jewish people. It is *exactly* the same, right down to the sequence. We're just early in that sequence. The nazis persecuted trans people too, for the exact same reasons.

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Roose figured us out. We all worship Big Parrot.

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From a global allocation perspective, actually, it's quite terrible to have billionaires have a bunch of the world's limited supply of wealth sitting in their bank accounts and being used 5% of the time.

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