I was making a joke about how Putin is anchoring the discussion to not even include Crimea.

Oh, so Putin will give up Crimea?

Solve physics and kill god

No. The current constitution is what they got after the revolution in 1979. Khomeini was supreme leader until 1989. Khamenei somehow got himself appointed to successor just in time. The successor he replaced was against mass executions and stuff. Funny how it goes.

This is why science is an art and why things like internships, PhD, and post docs are important if you want to establish your own lab some day. You can’t learn how to do everything from a book.

Sometimes there’s a well reasoned idea behind these things. Quite often that idea is wrong and was never properly evaluated because method papers are undervalued in cell biology and underpowered in machine learning. But hey, if it works, right?

And what’s a riot? Well you see, if a shopping cart is on fire then that’s a riot. If the police show up in riot gear then that’s a riot. If people stand up for their rights then that’s a riot.

Snowden is very zen and I don’t know what Assange but it’s not zen

Weird how Edward Snowden is basically a Boddhisatwa and Julian Assange

But like, in the metaverse. Powerful engines. He could go down in history as the creator of the greatest dick sucking machine ever but instead he wants to make nonexistent pen pals.

I… You think high tech companies should just be sending all their data to OpenAI, Anthropic, and whoever else?

"the average American has fewer than three people who would suck their dick, fewer than three people that would even consider it. And the average person has demand for meaningfully more.”