pretzellogician

Deliberately making sentences harder to parse (by, e.g., bad grammar, bad spelling, lack of capitalization, lack of vowels, leet speak) is annoying.

Non-capitalization may not seem like a huge decrease in readability, but every little bit counts.

Subjectively, yes. Not sure about objectively.

Unless those horrible neighbors are part of the HOA's board.

It is possible I am mixing terms, as IANAL and also this was several years ago

Regardless, they made a simple issue (which was not disclosed at least to me) a legal hassle.

I had the thankless task of being executor for my parents' estate. I distinctly remember the Florida HOA that made that so much worse.

After expressing their utmost sympathies and saying they'd help any way they could, mere weeks later they put a legal "estoppel" on the sale of the house due to some overgrown vines(?), which of course, were never mentioned by anyone.

At 50+, I have all of my wisdom teeth, and only one filling. (I wouldn't even have that filling aside from an incompetent dentist in my teens.) I don't do anything special; lucky genetics and microbiome.

All of my dentists have been happy... except, in my mid-30s, one dentist insisted all four wisdom teeth be removed. (Something about how they're hard to clean.) He even made me watch a video on the process: I finally ran for the hills when given a form that absolved the office of a "slight chance of death" for the procedure.

15+ years later, and no other dentist has had any complaints. It sure seemed profit-motivated.

These strip mine reclamations are just great.

In the 1990s, we lived on a lake in Indiana that was reclaimed from strip mines. Recommended.

The classic version is Kornbluth's 1951 story "The Marching Morons", itself pretty clearly the basis for Idiocracy.

(You could argue that "The Time Machine" was the original example.)

Are you aware of privately-circulated lists of embezzlement accusations? I believe the reaction would be similar.

(Background: trained, published, but still amateur mathematician.)

This is a cool blog post and I think you're going the right way, and beginning to get an understanding of the proof as you go.

I'd recommend continuing on the simplification and understanding route, until you yourself can follow the proof. Some suggestions, as I did something similar:

1. See if (or ask the AIs) if individual parts of the proof can be found elsewhere, i.e., is an argument just a copy of something else? If so, it's important to attribute this, but also this usually allows simplification ("by Theorem X", etc.)

2. Look for redundant patterns and try to combine them.

3. Ask the AI to be a critical reviewer from some journal, and try to fix its criticisms.

4. Continue simplifying! Assume that the final result may actually be relatively short.

Good luck!

Reducing population is a perfectly valid (partial) solution, and it also doesn't mean extinction.

Telling people not to have kids may not be realistic, but... it's also happening already.

Not necessarily.

For example, landmark-based navigation is good in rural areas but not generally in cities (of today).

I believe there are studies on this, in fact.

Wow, just yesterday I was thinking this exact problem would be a good candidate for AI. Seems it is!

I love working outdoors.

And mowing is meditative... some of the time. Until I encounter a yellowjacket nest.

Good in theory, but having police with axes to grind airing inaccurate information seems ripe for abuse.

From the article;

>Chadwick had been charged and pleaded not guilty, but not tried - yet the podcast made no use of the word "alleged" and called the millionaire a "murderer".

Yeah, like that.