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polymathwannabe

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Journalism dropout turned philosophy dropout, and that does a better job at defining me than the business degree I do have. I’m an amateur science fiction writer.

[Question] How do you sur­vive in the hu­man­i­ties?

polymathwannabe20 Feb 2020 15:19 UTC
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Mosquito kil­ling begins

polymathwannabe8 Nov 2017 15:46 UTC
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(qz.com)

Physi­cists say simu­la­tion hy­poth­e­sis is im­pos­si­ble in principle

polymathwannabe2 Oct 2017 20:36 UTC
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(cosmosmagazine.com)

Nick Bostrom says Google is win­ning the AI arms race

polymathwannabe5 Oct 2016 18:50 UTC
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(www.newsweek.com)

Open Thread, Aug. 22 − 28, 2016

polymathwannabe22 Aug 2016 16:24 UTC
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LINK: New clini­cal trial will try to re­store dead brains

polymathwannabe4 May 2016 20:05 UTC
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LINK: Videogame with a very de­tailed simu­lated universe

polymathwannabe19 Feb 2016 3:04 UTC
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Open Thread, Jan­uary 4-10, 2016

polymathwannabe4 Jan 2016 13:06 UTC
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LINK: Most of EvoPsych is pseudoscience

polymathwannabe8 Dec 2015 0:53 UTC
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Open thread, De­cem­ber 7-13, 2015

polymathwannabe7 Dec 2015 14:47 UTC
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Stupid Ques­tions, De­cem­ber 2015

polymathwannabe1 Dec 2015 22:40 UTC
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Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Dec. 1-13, 2015

polymathwannabe1 Dec 2015 22:39 UTC
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Crazy Ideas Thread, De­cem­ber 2015

polymathwannabe1 Dec 2015 22:37 UTC
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Brag­ging thread, De­cem­ber 2015

polymathwannabe1 Dec 2015 22:35 UTC
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LINK: An ex­am­ple of the Pink Flam­ingo, the ob­vi­ous-yet-over­looked cousin of the Black Swan

polymathwannabe5 Nov 2015 16:55 UTC
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[Link] Study: no big filter, we’re just too early

polymathwannabe21 Oct 2015 13:13 UTC
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Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Oct. 6-18, 2015

polymathwannabe6 Oct 2015 23:23 UTC
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Stupid Ques­tions Septem­ber 2015

polymathwannabe2 Sep 2015 18:26 UTC
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Brag­ging thread Septem­ber 2015

polymathwannabe2 Sep 2015 18:24 UTC
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Crazy Ideas Thread, Aug. 2015

polymathwannabe11 Aug 2015 13:24 UTC
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