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In which Scott Aaronson creates the most offensive trolley problem imaginable (scottaaronson.blog)
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It might as well be my own hand on the madman’s lever—and yet, while I grieve for all innocents, my soul is at peace, insofar as it’s ever been at peace about anything.

Psychopath.

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[-] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I recently searched “shtetl” on facebook to see what my friends had ever shared from the blog, literally only three posts:

  • A 2014 post titled “eigenmorality” which I skimmed just now, appears to be a rationalist coded social credit system, this is probably not what students are looking for
  • A post titled “NSA in P/poly: The Power of Precomputation”. This appears to have useful information about cryptography that I don’t have the expertise or energy to parse, also it’s from 2015.
  • A 2016 post about the 8000th busy beaver number, bringing us full circle.

So in terms of the content worth sharing and alternatives, it appears it’s just the CS based stuff.

E: Joke answer: clearly the go-to contrablog is Scott’s nemesis Arthur Chu’s archived twitter feed, or just watching Jeopardy episodes.

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