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7 pieceshow to audit an argument you didn't make
Nine steps, all in a public repo, that let anyone check a math fight without trusting either side.
prove it with the code
Why a nobody audited a math argument about evolution, and why the auditor shouldn't matter.
evo-sim
What it is Vox Day argues that evolution can’t fix enough mutations in the time available. His critics say his math is wrong. Both sides mostly …
arecoline
The oldest confirmed evidence of a human being using a drug on purpose just moved back by about twenty thousand years. A team led by Adam Brumm at …
the homunculus in a lab coat
Explaining consciousness by self-observation smuggles in an observer who is already conscious.
praearcturus gigas
The same bones have been a giant woodlouse, a crustacean, and the largest scorpion that ever lived. The bones have not moved since 1871. A meter long. …
Fourteen of Fifteen
A language model designed proteins that never existed and hit fourteen of fifteen targets.