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Newcomb’s Assured Destruction
This evening I noticed a similarity between Newcomb’s Paradox and MAD. It feels like the same problem, just with a sign change. Newcomb’s Paradox The player has two boxes, A and B. The player can either take only box B, or take both A and B. Box A is clear, and always contains a visible…
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Tasteless humour
So, a friend has convinced his workplace that the word ‘bottom’ is inherently funny regardless of context. ‘Bottom of the list’, ‘bottom of the filing cabinet’, etc. all lead to tittering. It got to the stage where one person made a file called ‘bottom’ just so that, in order to find out if they had…
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The passage of time
The last US presidential election was just over four years ago. I was buying a home. Since then, my father died. I had one brief girlfriend and now have a long-term partner. My partner is a traveller, and with her I have been to Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Belfast, Budapest and Barcelona; the British Peak- and Lake Districts, to…
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Tryin’ out wordpress
I used to blog a little on Livejournal, but I’m curious to see if this is a better blogging platform these days…