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Thanks for mentioning this. I just realized that the Monster Group has approximately as many elements as the Earth has atoms (|MG| ~ 8*10^53)
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I would like to see the chatbot history.

ChatGPT: wait I'm considering if an inconspicuous piece of toilet paper should be wrapped about the device

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Out of curiosity, what alternatives exist for moderate pain / fever management? I imagine NSAIDs are even worse in terms of adverse effects?
Comment · 20 days ago
These EU alternatives are in fact increasingly valuable for US-based political activists:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/us-governmen...

It's generally beneficial to have more choice both from a free-market and a democratic-safeguards perspective.

Comment · 23 days ago
OpenAI counterexample solves the millennium problem in a Yes/No manner - we do know in general that singularity could arise, but it still isn't solved in terms of "Why", ideally we could take an arbitrary physical problem and decide if Navier-Stokes equation can be applied to it.

This is similar to general solvability of the quintic equations - Abel provided a proof first but only with the advent of Gallois theory we could basically understand it in full and decide for any quinitic if it's solvable by radicals or no.

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Fefferman was right to include option C as someone could have come up with less contrived counterexample accompanied by some interesting theorems that actually shed light on the general case
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I live in Spain and can still enjoy access to this site. This is enforced by major ISPs (Vodafone among others), so anyone sane just opts for a local ISP (if they have a choice)
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