Minds aren't magic

A lot of people straightforwardly believe that minds are magic: that our decision making is not simply the result of electricity and biochemistry in neurons and synapses in the brain, but at the core is the product of an immortal soul.

This is really just for a friend on Facebook who knows someone who’s learning Python, but I thought I might as well put it in the world.

This came out today, and I’m in it a little bit because I attended a dinner party Katja threw for Marantz and arrived early.

See a random example Police shot dead 1,160 people in 2023.

If we make Sphere the Sun, and Pluto is in San Francisco, where does Alpha Centauri go?

The Sweden Solar System, at a scale of 1:20 million, is the world’s largest scale model of the Solar System, with the Avicii Arena representing the Sun.

This depraved rubbish got quite a few responses.

UPDATE 2020-06-25: Please sign the petition at DontDoxScottAlexander.com!

On Reddit, u/spriteguard asks: Do you have any diagrams of smaller numbers for comparison?

One of the first posts I made on this blog was Lambda calculus and Graham’s number, which set out how to express the insanely large number known as Graham’s Number precisely and concisely using lambda calculus.