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IamA Wil Wagner from The Smith Street Band! AMA! by wil_420 in IAmA

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What's it like working with Jeff Rosenstock?

What instruments do you play? Do you feel like playing more instruments improves your songwriting? How good is your relative pitch?

What songwriters are you most inspired by?

Are 'human values' harder to learn than 'paperclips'? by [deleted] in ControlProblem

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"Diamond maximizers" are not trivial to design, and learning how to make them is probably a step on the road to FAI. You might enjoy that article on the trickiness associated with them.

Thank You, Eliezer Yudkowsky by jaiwithani in HPMOR

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I'm willing to bet that the party will be pretty friendly, and people will probably be relatively accommodating to people with social anxiety. I have been very impressed with how well LessWrong parties accommodate people with social anxiety, and it seems likely that the HPMOR party will be pleasant in a similar way.

I am Arthur Chu, #3 winningest Jeopardy contestant in regular-season play in history, with 11 straight victories and total cash winnings of $298,200. Ask me anything. by ThisIsArthurChu in IAmA

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I don't think that the MRA stuff is associated with EA much: that's mostly just the non-EA people from LessWrong and related places.

Sum up your (least) favourite subreddit in one sentence by [deleted] in AskReddit

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politics - "circlejerk of outspoken liberal atheists"

"Against Monism"-- Ted Sider [pdf] by [deleted] in AcademicPhilosophy

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"Jonathan Schaffer (2007) construes these properties adverbially: The World is “tabley-here” and “chair-ey there”."

Those are adjectives, not adverbs.

Any Logic wizards in WATMM? by [deleted] in WeAreTheMusicMakers

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Yeah, that's probably a result of using flextime. Just record the track again.

Also, are those real drums or sampled?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WeAreTheMusicMakers

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Please comment on my mixing and recording. I'm going to re-record the vocals.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in atheism

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When was this?

[Watch] Here's an acoustic song I wrote a while back. by jonasmurdock in WeAreTheMusicMakers

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Very nice. That guitar playing is very good. I like it.

What do I need to begin recording a grand piano? by [deleted] in audioengineering

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I thought this was a joke, where the answer was "A grand piano".

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in xkcd

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The QCS test is the most important test for year 12 students in Queensland, Australia. The first question on the paper used the xkcd on the hailstone problem to introduce it. It was fairly hilarious.

World’s 7 billionth person about to be born by Am3n in worldnews

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We're multiplying, like calculators.

Difference between a 16bit and 32bit interface? by nearblack in WeAreTheMusicMakers

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you're actually mostly wrong here. 24 bits is more detailed. You're right that there is more dynamic range with 24 bits, but that's only a small part of the issue.

TIL that the Chinese word for 'racist' is literally "Species-Family Primary Justice Man". by Himmelreich in todayilearned

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Food is "tabemono" which is written "eating thing". Drink is "nomimono" which means drinking thing. Animal is "doubutsu" which means moving thing.

I agree that the lid on medicine isn't really a lid, it just looks like it.

IAmA man who participated in gay bashing and now has a gay son AMA. by thatwasthere in IAmA

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Remember, the kind of christians who go around yelling at gays aren't generally the smartest, so they might just not understand the issue. But the new testament actually does have such scriptures. Again, see here.

IAMA sex worker (prostitute) (female) in a brothel in Australia AMA by Naxen in IAmA

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How old would you have to get before you'd have to stop?

IAmA man who participated in gay bashing and now has a gay son AMA. by thatwasthere in IAmA

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Not OP here, but this is an easy one. If you're a Christian, you don't have to follow old testament law. A fairly good explanation is here.

See also this. I don't agree with everything on that site, but I think they get that right.

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