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Sidebar: I absolutely adore Scott "I don't give a fuck anymore" Aaronson. My personal aspirations to this kind of biting wit are futile and vain, but my admira

Sidebar: I absolutely adore Scott "I don't give a fuck anymore" Aaronson. My personal aspirations to this kind of biting wit are futile and vain, but my admiration for it is even greater and some people can bring it off with style to spare, and ever since that uh, thing, Scott is just playing the ten minute guitar solo. Into to Number Theory with periodicity and modular math might be stretching "nothing more than arithmetic" a bit, but fuck it, this is the best accessible discussion of Shor I've ever read and if there's any justice in the multiverse it will become the go-to link on the topic, which will mean that 10^500 laypeople will roll their eyes at the next 10^500 "quantum computers are the next step after digital computers" Aeon fluff pieces floating by.

carver 4y ago
Is this the "uh, thing"? https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/the-blog-comment-that-achieved-an-internet-miracle/384539/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/the-blo...
- aorth 4y ago
  I think it was the doxxing against his will by NY Times. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/slate-star-codex-and-silicon-valleys-war-against-the-media https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/slate-st... Edit: users pointed out this is a different Scott. My mistake!
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  - Chinjut 4y ago
    This is a different Scott.
    - gonehome 4y ago
      Yeah, though I wonder if Aaronson’s writing tone is somewhat influenced by Alexander’s. At least he reminded me of him by the end. I’m pretty sure they all know/read each other - related communities/ideas. PBS also has a (now discontinued) YouTube show called infinite series that did a decent overview of the algorithm and showed examples of a lot of the stuff described here.
      - cwillu 4y ago
        They both list the other blog as recommended reading (although Shtetl-Optimized still links to Star-Slate-Codex rather than Astral-Codex-Ten).
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ithinkso 4y ago
> "I don't give a fuck anymore" This article is from 2007
- benreesman 4y ago
  Haha stop upvoting my wrong comment people! Apparently Scott never gave a fuck. :) Dope.
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carver 4y ago

Is this the "uh, thing"? https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/the-blog-comment-that-achieved-an-internet-miracle/384539/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/the-blo...

aorth 4y ago
I think it was the doxxing against his will by NY Times. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/slate-star-codex-and-silicon-valleys-war-against-the-media https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/slate-st... Edit: users pointed out this is a different Scott. My mistake!
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- Chinjut 4y ago
  This is a different Scott.
  - gonehome 4y ago
    Yeah, though I wonder if Aaronson’s writing tone is somewhat influenced by Alexander’s. At least he reminded me of him by the end. I’m pretty sure they all know/read each other - related communities/ideas. PBS also has a (now discontinued) YouTube show called infinite series that did a decent overview of the algorithm and showed examples of a lot of the stuff described here.
    - cwillu 4y ago
      They both list the other blog as recommended reading (although Shtetl-Optimized still links to Star-Slate-Codex rather than Astral-Codex-Ten).
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ithinkso 4y ago

> "I don't give a fuck anymore" This article is from 2007

benreesman 4y ago
Haha stop upvoting my wrong comment people! Apparently Scott never gave a fuck. :) Dope.

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