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Kenneth Griffith's avatar

Kudos on MITTENS! Does this mean that all retards are Gammas?

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Faith in God's avatar

"b) suggest an alternative mechanism that might substitute for the failure of natural selection."

Genetic alterations by viruses. It's possible for a virus to insert a few hundred SNP alterations across individuals and across species and become fixated as documented in the literature. However, just like population bottlenecks when it occurs it's identifiable in the genome. So another dead end.

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Codex redux's avatar

We all saw it coming. We even tried to warn the poor chick.

It's simultaneously sad and hilarious.

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Lance's avatar

How did my comical love of giant girls evolve is what I want to know

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Woe To The Conquered's avatar

Despite my aversion to buying Amazon’s license for ebooks, I had to get on this ride. Never stop winning.

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Heather's avatar

I’m going to start saying I have the confidence of 5 sigmas when I’m really sure of myself

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Jay Alan Ungart's avatar

Many choose to speak when silence does them best.

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O_'s avatar

What an ass. It’s so sweet to watch Vox leveraging AI to smash these Sophists into little salty pieces.

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DarkLordFan's avatar

Congratulations on the massive success of Probability Zero.

What we learned is that the Gamma is not 5.3 Sigma, and definitely not Sigma at all. What good is the "I am capable of evaluating it" of Gammas if they never actually do so?

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Olga's avatar

Is this "the scribbler" origin story?

https://youtu.be/tUSRyAha37w?si=OYlTXq2ffMCtQYgT

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Outis's avatar

I absolutely love it when a gamma thinks I’m bluffing. Years ago when I was single I got my hands on some cheap coffee creamer at a party and asked if anyone had a lighter because I wanted to light it on fire. A gamma called my “bluff” and gave me a lighter. What resulted was me owning every females attention for the next 10 minutes. Fortunately he was a good sport about it, he did his best to hide his chagrin.

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3dEdited

Dang that's cool. Here's a vid it goes up like gasoline fumes

https://youtu.be/392H67GCfCY?si=w9xadciHgq8aGse0

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keruru's avatar

I went back and read the comments. I note that some of the newbies quote extensively from other bloggers as if they are authorities. Making logical errors, and not knowing they are doing so. Sir Hamster got there and corrected this.

I used to be a knowledge expert. Dealing with midwits who think that (for example) guidelines are reliable meat when they are in fact made of sausage irritates one when you were one of the people who ground up the gristle that went into the sausage. The Dark Lord is very patient with such: I am less so.

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NotYourPalFriend's avatar

We really don't hate them enough.

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Cedric's avatar

Does anyone have kids with gammas? Children always test you to see if you're bluffing. And since when didn't women test you, on how you're doing what you're saying you're doing?

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Anonymoose's avatar

Your explanations on your blog and AI Central were sufficiently clear that I was able to deduce that lactase permanence was going to be a proof.

And I’m just a distracted, albeit high IQ, mom chasing toddlers and tweens around, and didn’t watch a single dark stream.

This Gamma and “everyone who agrees” with him are on the other side of the IQ communication gap.

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Wander's avatar

"All these people agree with me" he says to the sigma.

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EliasHere's avatar

Are any preprints of your papers available on arxiv yet?

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Vox Day's avatar

No, they're on CERN's Zenodo.

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