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Long Pond.
“We broke the boat!” Freya says.
hippuric acid.
Why does nitrogen break so often? Because it’s hard to fix! Ha-ha.
Anabaena variabilis
“Because there are things to worry about.”
Can be like one of their spoons knocking flat a house of cards.
How often Freya has seen this eye dance of theirs.
recursive induction
Folie à deux.
“Fear is a form of alertness.”
zettaflops
not just the next day, but the rest of your life?
“Tau Ceti?
Can a narrative account ever be adequate? Can even humans do it?
G-type star,
Aristotle,
protagonicity,
Desain.
‘Come back in a year and tell me about it!’ But you know what? I will never tell you. I will never come back.”
ease of representation.
ease of representation, probability blindness, overconfidence, and anchoring.
probability blindness combined with ease of representation.
avoiding acquiescence,”
You’re leaving behind a trail of broken hearts, I’m hearing about it.
172 centimeters for men, 163 centimeters for women; median weight 74 kilograms for men, 55 kilograms for women.
Oort cloud,
164.341: she had been wandering for just over three years.
I think it’s our job now. It’s what we can do for the ship.”
AVpl,
struvite crystals,
MIDAS, marine integrated decision analysis system.
This was meat and drink to her.
“Jochi is not jokey,” they would say, “but he sure knows his math.”
allopatric speciation,
recursion algorithms,
Zeno’s paradox.”
It would have been embarrassing to have the ship blow up just as it arrived.”
tidally locked.
CH4 and H2S.
Neith
“Don’t worry about that stuff,” she said. “One world at a time.”
Winograd Schema challenge,
statistical syllogism,
Kolmogorov complexity.
you know for sure what the outcomes of a decision will be, you can’t decide what to do.
language-based inductive inference.”
What was ship going to do without her? With no one to talk to, bad things can happen. Ship knew this full well.
Not the least of many Ouroboros problems now coming down.
Zeno’s paradox.
