Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
Elucidating ("⛈️ Information ⛈️") wrote:
I'm utterly transfixed by this photo Nick Bostrom agreed to. Why, Nick, did you write that stuff on the whiteboard? Who thought it was a good idea? What kind of signal did you think it would send? Do you think Nick prepared it himself?
It's professionally and carefully lit. It's a real, professional portrait. The photographer did a great job. And yet so much space is devoted to, uh... log functions "sqrt(n) < n" and the phrase "increases slowly."