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[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvOARMOZ8qA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvOARMOZ8qA You said O’Brien… (Confusing Conan with Collison?)
by gradschoolfail 2y ago
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvOARMOZ8qA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvOARMOZ8qA
You said O’Brien… (Confusing Conan with Collison?)
- 082349872349872 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Brien_(Nineteen_Eighty-Four)#Overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Brien_(Nineteen_Eighty-Fou... ; we don't seem to have a given name for him. (the circumstances under which Smith meets Julia seem so contrived that I'm pretty sure she and O'Brien were —in the author's headcanon— part of the same organisation. If Orwell had had any inkling of the Information Research Department the end of his life must've been pretty strange indeed)
- gradschoolfail 2y agoAhhhh oops Patrick Collison’s a-level comments was orders more salient in my mind (my memory of 1984 is gaping, it was assigned reading and i’d been ever the underperforming loser?) And you had participated in grade-charade gametalk track, seemed opportune for offending our half-clueful local deities, if only in principle (Beit S) (Citations ready if/whenever you need them) https://archive.is/2lqju https://archive.is/2lqju https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Fischer_of_Geneva https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Fischer_of_Geneva (Cameo by gwern!) I’d better ask you for that Schuetzenberger theorem now, i know about Lascoux-S, maybe you were thinking Chomsky-S, or simply S? EDIT: basic problem with teleology is that its usually not framed as a “search” problem?
- 082349872349872 2y agoChomsky-S — sorry I'd missed this one earlier, will continue later. [out moving things about at or near the surface of the earth for the rest of the day...]