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"To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats." - Aldous Huxley, 1933
Paul Crowley
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Paul Crowley
@ciphergoth
Cryptography, personal trivia, and the future of all humanity. Security at Anthropic, opinions my own. I block for rudeness or sarcasm.
- Can you imagine going back to school with the answer "I showed this to my Dad and he didn't know what answer you are looking for, btw he has a Fields medal"...Here's a puzzler from my daughter's maths homework.
- Unbelievable they have to say this.
A tiny number of career criminals commit over half all crimes. More of them are avoiding jail than ever before. Our politicians can change this - they must do so, now. No excuses. Help us get government to act. Follow us, go to our website and join the campaign 
00:18We are going to see dramatic changes in the rates of many chronic diseases before @POTUS leaves office.- This is truly an extraordinary exchange. infinitescroll.us/p/arguments-ar…
- We rely on random violent nutcases to deter certain kinds of antisocial behaviour mattbell.us/what-i-learned…
- Had vaguely assumed that trees shared a common ancestor. I could not have been more wrong. "Being a tree" has evolved many, *many* more times than "being a crab" has, and we can cause it in the lab. Beautiful post by @eukaryotetweets
- 57 officers did *not* resign in solidarity with the officers who pushed over a 75-year-old causing brain injury. This turns out to be a lie from the police union. wkbw.com/news/local-new…
- Replying to @8chabardI had this experience more than once in my youth. At one point I decided my circle of friends must be sick of me and quietly stopped going to things. When I finally returned everyone was like "oh wow good to see you, where were you?" Was genuinely astonished.
- When I Google "courtesy cards", I don't find a well-funded campaign against them. I don't find a one-person campaign against them. There isn't even a Wikipedia page on them. How come such open corruption has resulted in so little protest?A police officer in NYC faced demotion and retaliation from higher-ranking cops because he was ticketing drivers that have "courtesy cards" issued by police unions that normally let drivers get away with violations, and now, taxpayers have to pay him a $175k settlement.
- Deserves meme status!
02:55I’m sure everyone who stats-trolled Aella over the years will be happy to see that she now seems to have a much better grasp of how science and the growth of knowledge work than the average redpill guy. The hypothetico-deductive method and it’s consequences - Replying to @ciphergothTo be clear, I'm sure that if a policeman found his own bike was stolen, he would immediately think of binary search. "Train" is a euphemism for "remove the excuses not to use". thetimes.com/article/i-have…
- Just paid for the Google AI plan, and I am already astonished by its capabilities.
