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Paul Almond
Personal blog · paul-almond.comsciencephilosophy
Paul Almond's personal blog at paul-almond.com covers science and philosophy. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Paul Almond's personal site for essays on defining low-level languages and speculative pieces on the Fermi paradox, such as "Civilization-level quantum suicide". Comments only cite these pages.
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What Hacker News says?
The shortest program in a low-level language. On the definition of a low-level language, see: http://www.paul-almond.com/WhatIsALowLevelLanguage.htm
Comment linking /WhatIsALowLevelLanguage.htm
on “9,73,241,561,1081,1849,_?_”Submitted Why Is Space 3D? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionEmbracing ignorance is not the right answer to ignorance. For an example of a genuinely strange resolution to the Fermi paradox, see Paul Almond's "Civilization-level quantum suicide": http://www.paul-almond.com/CivilizationLevelQuantumSuicide.p...
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on “Why Can't We See Evidence Of Alien Life?”