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150 – The Procrastination Equation

The Bayesian Conspiracy

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The Importance of Crafty Mis-Asside in Lovecraftian Horror

Price became so disturbed with the implications of his equation for altruism that he committed suicide, though he may have had other issues. Evercoming bias does not advocate committing suicide after studying very cis-acquasion things. Price found one of these info hazards where he's like, oh my god, anything that helps everybody instead of just the gene holder will not come to fixation. The whole human race is doomed because we're evolving. This is terrible and kills himself. It's great. I kind of love it. That part sucks. Kind of terrible, actually. But it's like, an actual Lovecraftian thing in real life. And obviously, he must have many other mental issues for this

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