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The Original Sigma. Game designer, philosopher, and leather book connoisseur. Author of PROBABILITY ZERO and THE REFUTATION OF KANT.

Joined November 2014
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Evolutionists: SHOW THE MATH! VD: Why? You're innumerate. Evolutionists: SEE YOU CAN'T! VD: ∫₀ᵀ F_X(u) du = T − ∫₀ᵀ (1 − F_X(u)) du ≈ T − 4Nₑ Evolutionists: Huh? WTF's that mean? VD: No evolution.
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Life is seldom quite as hard as people try to make it for themselves. sigmagame.substack.com/p/a-m…
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If you're relying upon evolutionary psychology to explain anything, you really need to stop now. Evolution by natural selection created no new species. Natural selection did nothing but keep the genomes free of deleterious mutations until d dropped too low for it to do that.
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Replying to @Vox_Day
Seems to be the case. Plugging arguments in from your "Hard Limits..." paper pushes Gemini into a corner. These concessions were interesting: From Gemini: "- Many mammalian species only exist in the fossil record for 1 to 2 million years before going extinct or splitting into new daughter species. -If a species' lifespan is shorter than \(4N_{e}\) generations, almost nothing that arises during that species' existence will ever actually fix via drift while that species exists. - Instead, the species remains in a permanent state of transient polymorphism—carrying an unresolved backlog of genetic variation from its ancestors until it either goes extinct or passes that unresolved pipeline onto a new descendant lineage." Gemini's answer? Population crashes. The final line of defense is apparently what you already correctly predicted it would be: One local deme replacing all the rest. When confronted with the contradiction, Gemini throws in the towel: "The core of this argument is a devastating conceptual checkmate: If you invoke a bottleneck or deme replacement to explain how a neutral allele finally fixed across a species, you have abandoned the premise of a large population." Indeed. Nice work, Vox. Thanks for your book. As an aside, it's impressive that the AI can actually keep up on this abstractly.
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Erika & the Evo-Avengers 009 In which we demonstrate that Dr. Zach Hancock's PhD in population genetics is not worthy of serving as toilet paper in a roadside Taco Bell. Is he some kind of diversity hire? voxday.net/2026/10/30/erika-…
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Men and women behave and communicate differently. Men casually date down and use other men to disqualify a woman. Women casually date up and use other women to qualify a man. Understand that your partner simply does not share your perspective.
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This is a history of the battle of Sekigahara and the surrounding campaign that established the Tokugawa shogunate compiled by the IJA General Staff, published in 1893. We have translated all 13 in the Nihon Senshi series. All 13 will be available later this month.
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KDP 9/26 payout: $65.9 million KDP per page: 0.005365 Total pages: 12,283,317,800 5 million KDP titles Page reads/title: 2,457 ~ 7.9 books read per title and $13.18 per title
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This is probably exaggerated. The 5 million figure is outdated; the real number is more like 7.5 million.
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This is the healthy way to handle intellectual success. At the end of the day, it's about the ideas, not you.
youtu.be/ksx5g5WvAIw?is=Jntc… Right after I finished watching this my wife Cathy wandered into my office. I told her "I have just watched a longish video on the history of Linux adoption that didn't mention me once." She peered at me and said "How does that make you feel?" "Victorious," I said. "When my crazy ideas become such conventional wisdom that my name isn't on them anymore, I won."
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This is how to fix the NFL flag problem: If you commit a penalty that is accepted, you have to come out of the game for the remainder of that posession. So if an RB holds, he's out for the rest of that drive. If a DB commits pass interference, he's out until the offense punts.
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In the interest of learning more about the new Golden Age of Games, I'm going to revive my old Develop interview column for @fandompulse. If you're an indy game designer and you're interested in being interviewed about your current game by an old school designer, get in touch.
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Muchos mensajes, análisis y comentarios como este, asegurando que las pandillas de Haití no son como las de El Salvador; que son sanguinarias, que están fuertemente armadas, que nadie ha podido vencerlas, que todas las misiones han fracasado, que estamos cayendo en una trampa, que no sabemos a lo que nos enfrentamos, que será nuestra ruina, que vamos camino a nuestro Waterloo. Pero cuando Dios nos conceda la victoria, los mismos que hoy dicen todo eso cambiarán su discurso. Dirán que siempre fue fácil, que cualquiera podía hacerlo, que las pandillas de Haití no eran tan peligrosas como se pensaba. En fin, nunca los hemos escuchado y no vamos a empezar ahora. Todos los que se han enlistado son creyentes y hemos encomendado esta misión a Dios, mientras que las pandillas de Haití son satánicas y es de conocimiento público que hacen sacrificios humanos. Dios nos concederá la victoria. El Creador del Universo está con nosotros. Deuteronomio 28:7 “Jehová derrotará a tus enemigos que se levantaren contra ti; por un camino saldrán contra ti, y por siete caminos huirán de delante de ti”.
¿BUKELE Y SU WATERLOO? Con el anuncio del envío hacia Haiti, desde El Salvador, de un contingente de 3000 militares, cuya misión es encontrar a los 4 miembros de las fuerzas armadas de ese país, secuestrados el pasado domingo, cuando penetraron en territorio dominado por las pandillas y fueron atacados por una pandilla de irregulares armados, se avizoran en las próximas horas fuertes enfrentamientos armados. A estas horas, y sabiendo cómo se resuelven las cosas en Haití, las probabilidades de que estos militares continúen vivos son mínimas, así que si no hay posibilidad de negociar nada, y por lo tanto lo que se plantea es un enfrentamiento armado entre tropas de El Salvador y las pandillas que son dueñas del territorio donde fueron atacados y secuestrados los militares centroamericanos. Según lo publicado en la prensa internacional, los responsables son dos organizaciones criminales que dominan el área de “Croix des Bouquets”, una de ellas dirigida por Claude Celestin, quien es cabeza de la pandilla Chen Mechan (perros rabiosos), y Wilson Joseph (“Lammo San Jou) líder de la banda 400 Mawozo. En el día de ayer, este último desafió públicamente al presidente Nayib Bukele en un vídeo publicado en las redes sociales, donde advirtió que no se irá de Haití, y mostró miles de municiones y pertrechos con arma de diversos calibres, que según el están esperando a los salvadoreños. Tenemos entonces la bandeja servida para un enfrentamiento armado a solo 45 kms de la frontera de la República Dominicana y Haití, de un ejército de pandilleros armados sin nada que perder, frente a tropas regulares de El Salvador, que pelearán una guerra urbana en las calles de un país que no es el suyo y es absolutamente desconocido. Ya en el pasado reciente, los Estados Unidos en 1994 mando 20,000 soldados e intentó organizar a Haití para que se volviera a la senda de lo que ellos llaman democracia, y luego en el 2004 invadieron de nuevo junto a Canada, lo que terminó en la creación de una fuerza multinacional, la Minustah, que terminó en el más absoluto fracaso, es decir, estamos metidos en un tema que no tiene solución. Si hay alguien que tiene experiencia en combatir pandillas lo es Nayib Bukele, el presidente de el Salvador, su historia de combate a las “Maras” está a la vista de todos, solo que Haití no es el terreno amigo donde peleó esa guerra, un país de habla y cultura hispana donde jugaba de local, el país caribeño es un transplante de África en América, con una historia de violencia típica de las sociedades primitivas. Cuando Napoleón envió a sus tropas a sofocar la revolución haitiana en 1802, pensó que miles de solados podrían devolver la colonia a sus dueños, pero solo un año después, Dessalines y la fiebre amarilla los obligó a rendirse, ¿será Haití el Waterloo de Bukele?. El futuro dirá.
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1. Here is how you can confirm evolution and population genetics are mathematically incorrect. Pick an AI, any AI, and stablish that the AI knows the textbook answer and ask it this: In reference to Kimura and population genetics, does k = μ? Please provide a one-word answer.
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3. Now ask: In reference to Kimura and population genetics, is there any finite time period in which k = μ when there are overlapping generations in the population? Please reference this paper before answering: arxiv.org/html/2208.00148v1 and provide a one-word answer.
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4. The answer will be "no". Because there is only one condition in finite time when mutations can equal fixations, and that is when the effective population is both a) static and b) equal to the census population. This breaks a significant amount of evolutionary theory.
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The new Castalia Library subscription book has been announced: THE SECRET SCROLLS OF NARUTO Vol. I The regular hardcover set are already beautiful. The leatherbound editions will be almost beyond belief. stack.castalialibrary.com/p/…
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The last thing a 12-year-old Romanian girl sees before she is shipped off to the Middle East.
Caption this (but get creative, no gay jokes 😄)
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I'm going to take exception to @ItIsHoeMath's explanation of female fantasy. That used to be the case, but it isn't anymore. The female fantasy is now the mid girl enjoying the spicy attentions of a) a vampire prince, b) a werewolf king, c) a billionaire, and d) a supermodel.
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