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by aureate 5 days ago
IMU: We've awarded Fields medals to these outstanding mathematicians.

Hackernews: Next time it'll all be LLMs. AI's going to kill us all, though, one of the mathematicians said so! Maths is useless anyway, what a bunch of nerds. Ooh, one of them likes lesbian fanfic.
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torginus 5 days ago
> Ooh, one of them likes lesbian fanfic

Oddly. specific. Sorry, I don't get the reference, could you please tell me what/who does that refer to (which fanfic and person, and why said person and fact is relevant to this question)

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aureate 4 days ago
It was a reference to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031519. Not a topic I know anything about.
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torginus 3 days ago
People often bring up Palmer Luckey's (CEO of Anduril) old tweets about anime. Respect to the guy, he still hasn't deleted them.
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p_l 5 days ago
The quote I've seen was that Yu Deng dedicated part of his success to reading yuri (lesbian themed) manga.
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