There’s no attempt to dispute the overlap between NRX and Ratdom, just an un-argued assumption that nobody should care enough to put it in their Wikipedia article.

(ahem) The correct term is a prior.

:-P

Winning sentences of the day so far:

Conservapedia is 100% true and correct. Evidence: https://www.conservapedia.com/Garfield_(comic_strip)

Whoever wrote that deffo wants to fuck Nermal.

"Computational complexity does not work that way!" is one of those TESCREAL-zone topics that I wish I had better reading recommendations for.

For background reading, see here and here.

acatinulthar reblogged this from nihilsupernum and added:

I think that this is probably a parody but it honestly sounds like excellent life advice.

"Only" 25 years. Oh, well.

Quoted for posterity/convenience:

in a world of greater legibility, romantic partners would have the conversation about "I'd trade up if I found somebody 10%/25%/125% better than you" in advance, and make sure they have common knowledge of the numbers

(Marriage makes sense as a promise not to do that period; but if so, you want to make sure that both partners are on the same page about that. Not everyone assumes that marriage means that.)

Her: I am never, ever letting you go unless I find someone 75% better. Me: Works for me.

oh hello there Performative Allistic Twitter

First woks, now flour sifters? What is the man's obsession with kitchen implements?!!!

hey hey I'm P(doom) and I'm here to say / MIRI needs cash so tithe your pay / Basilisk comes by night or day / so atheists reinvent how to pray

"Covalently bonded bacteria" sounds like something the writers of Star Trek: Voyager would have come up with because they heard that "covalent bond" was a science term but did not know what bacteria are actually made of.

I think of myself as playing the role of a wise old mentor who has had lots of experience, telling stories to the young adventurers, trying to toughen them up, somewhat similar to how Prof Quirrell[8] toughens up the students in HPMOR through teaching them Defense Against the Dark Arts

[8] Note that during our conversation, Emerson brought up HPMOR and the Quirrell similarity, not me.

epistemic status: jesus fucking christ, what is your major malfunction?!

I would also tell them that it’s possible to actually understand things.

The most perfect set-up to date for a joke about how the Thing Understander has logged on