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There is a comment on the r/slatestarcodex subreddit with supposedly true information about him (which I found googling 'who is gwern'), but it left me with eve

• dewey 2y ago
  There's some articles on his site about these attempts and they claim that they are all wrong. If it would be that "easily found" I'd guess we wouldn't be having these discussions: https://gwern.net/blackmail#pseudonymity-bounty https://gwern.net/blackmail#pseudonymity-bounty
• tectec 2y ago
  Can you link the comment here?
• scarmig 2y ago
  That comment is just a fanciful flight of whimsy. > Gwern was the first patient to successfully complete a medical transition to the gender he was originally assigned at birth... his older brother died of a Nuvigil overdose in 2001... his (rather tasteful) neck tattoo of the modafinil molecule The only concrete things we know about gwern are that he's a world-renowned breeder of Maine Coons and that he is the sole known survivor of a transverse cerebral bifurcation. He does have a neck tattoo, but it's actually a QR code containing the minimal weights to label MNIST at 99% accuracy.
  • trogdor 2y ago
    > The only concrete things we know about gwern are that he's a world-renowned breeder of Maine Coons and that he is the sole known survivor of a transverse cerebral bifurcation. How do you know those things are true?
    • Vecr 2y ago
      They aren't, he doesn't even live in Maine.
      • ComputerGuru 2y ago
        You clearly don’t know what a Maine Coon is…
        • Quinzel 2y ago
          Meow