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  1. "The original question, 'Can machines think?' can be described in terms of a game..." - Let's play the game, challenge our assumptions. Can we truly define thought? #TuringTest #OpenQuestions

  2. "The original question, 'Can machines think?' can be described in terms of a game..." - Let's play the game, challenge our assumptions. Can we truly define thought? #TuringTest #OpenQuestions

  3. "The original question, 'Can machines think?' can be described in terms of a game..." - Let's play the game, challenge our assumptions. Can we truly define thought? #TuringTest #OpenQuestions

  4. "The original question, 'Can machines think?' can be described in terms of a game..." - Let's play the game, challenge our assumptions. Can we truly define thought? #TuringTest #OpenQuestions

  5. Why Another Typewriter?

    Recently Paulo philosophically asked me, a typewriter collector, "Why another typewriter? I haven't been able to find an answer yet." (My attempt at a translation/synopsis from his Portuguese.) In addition to answers from the collector's perspective, bonus points for answers that are also directed to answering this question which comes from your significant other who doesn't understand your obsession. (I'm also posing this on the day that I've sadly chosen for family sanity to move 20 […]

    boffosocko.com/2025/06/02/why-

  6. Trans folks who have transitioned or are transitioning:

    Has your gender-based sexual attraction changed over the course of your transition? For example, did you used to consider yourself bisexual but are now exclusively attracted to one gender, or maybe vice versa?
    Please share your experiences in the replies!

    #poll #polls #lgbt #trans #queer #gay #bi #pan #sexuality #transition #transitioning #question #openquestion #questions #openquestions #bisexual #pansexual #transsexual #transgender

  7. Trans folks who have transitioned or are transitioning:

    Has your gender-based sexual attraction changed over the course of your transition? For example, did you used to consider yourself bisexual but are now exclusively attracted to one gender, or maybe vice versa?
    Please share your experiences in the replies!

    #poll #polls #lgbt #trans #queer #gay #bi #pan #sexuality #transition #transitioning #question #openquestion #questions #openquestions #bisexual #pansexual #transsexual #transgender

  8. To everyone who has had top surgery:

    What's something you wish you knew before the day of the surgery?

    What's something you wish you had done differently, if anything?

    What tips on recovery would you give to someone who's going to get top surgery?

    #topsurgery #surgery #trans #lgbt #transmasc #transman #transguy #transboy #transgender #transsexual #transmasculine #tips #question #questions #openquestion #openquestions

  9. To everyone who has had top surgery:

    What's something you wish you knew before the day of the surgery?

    What's something you wish you had done differently, if anything?

    What tips on recovery would you give to someone who's going to get top surgery?

    #topsurgery #surgery #trans #lgbt #transmasc #transman #transguy #transboy #transgender #transsexual #transmasculine #tips #question #questions #openquestion #openquestions

  10. Allender's 10 #Complexity #OpenQuestions

    (Each w/ $1000 reward)

    Eric Allender has a new guest column in SIGACT News doi.org/10.1145/3586165.358617, since he is officially retiring this year. It's a fun read, and in addition to the 10 Qs, highlights many others he thinks are approachable.

    1. Exponential lower bounds on ACC⁰ circuits for PP
    2. Is PRIMES TC⁰-hard under *uniform* AC⁰ Turing reductions?
    3. Do all problems solvable by constant-width circuits of polylog genus lie in ACC⁰?
    4. Is UL=coUL?
    5. Improve the space upper bound on StUL. (Maybe StUL=L)
    6. Is DET=NC¹(#\L)=AC⁰(#\L)?
    7. Improve the NC-depth upper bound on #\NC¹. (Maybe #\NC¹=NC¹)
    8. Is AC¹ in SAC¹[⊕,∧]=VP(F₂)?
    9. Is the binary expansion of every irrational algebraic number equal to the characteristic function of a language in AC⁰? Does there exist such a number in PH?
    10. Is Halt in \(P^{R_{C_U}}\) for some universal machine U? Is there universal U such that Halt is *not* in \(P^{R_{C_U}}\)?

  11. Allender's 10 #Complexity #OpenQuestions

    (Each w/ $1000 reward)

    Eric Allender has a new guest column in SIGACT News doi.org/10.1145/3586165.358617, since he is officially retiring this year. It's a fun read, and in addition to the 10 Qs, highlights many others he thinks are approachable.

    1. Exponential lower bounds on ACC⁰ circuits for PP
    2. Is PRIMES TC⁰-hard under *uniform* AC⁰ Turing reductions?
    3. Do all problems solvable by constant-width circuits of polylog genus lie in ACC⁰?
    4. Is UL=coUL?
    5. Improve the space upper bound on StUL. (Maybe StUL=L)
    6. Is DET=NC¹(#\L)=AC⁰(#\L)?
    7. Improve the NC-depth upper bound on #\NC¹. (Maybe #\NC¹=NC¹)
    8. Is AC¹ in SAC¹[⊕,∧]=VP(F₂)?
    9. Is the binary expansion of every irrational algebraic number equal to the characteristic function of a language in AC⁰? Does there exist such a number in PH?
    10. Is Halt in \(P^{R_{C_U}}\) for some universal machine U? Is there universal U such that Halt is *not* in \(P^{R_{C_U}}\)?

  12. CW: Kink question

    What, if anything, can I do to soften new leather straps on a ball gag? The corners of the strap that hold the ball are sharp on the sides of my mouth, making it difficult to wear for as long as I otherwise could. I can't use any harsh or unsafe chemicals since it goes in my mouth. Anyone have tips?

    #leather #leathercare #ballgag #kink #fetish #question #questions #openquestion #openquestions #advicewanted #advice #adviceneeded #adviceplease #advicerequested #leathergear

  13. CW: Kink question

    What, if anything, can I do to soften new leather straps on a ball gag? The corners of the strap that hold the ball are sharp on the sides of my mouth, making it difficult to wear for as long as I otherwise could. I can't use any harsh or unsafe chemicals since it goes in my mouth. Anyone have tips?

    #leather #leathercare #ballgag #kink #fetish #question #questions #openquestion #openquestions #advicewanted #advice #adviceneeded #adviceplease #advicerequested #leathergear

  14. How do u keep the hair on top of ur head from laying flat, especially with longer hair? That was a problem I always had when I had hair down past my shoulders. I would lift the roots with a hair pick and it helped but not for long. I have plenty of volume on the sides and very back, only the hair on top of my head gives me trouble

    #hair #question #questions #openquestion #OpenQuestions #hairstyling #longhair #hairtips #tips #hairstyle #style

  15. If you could travel back to any time or place and spend 24 hours once, and only once, in your life. Where and when would you go and how long would you wait to take that trip?

    #TimeTravel #OpenQuestions

    Please boost as I'd like to read a lot of replies from a range of different people (that includes you too).

  16. If you could travel back to any time or place and spend 24 hours once, and only once, in your life. Where and when would you go and how long would you wait to take that trip?

    #TimeTravel #OpenQuestions

    Please boost as I'd like to read a lot of replies from a range of different people (that includes you too).

  17. > Given that the body weight compatible with longest survival increases with increasing age (see below), and much if not all of the
    increase in body weight is due to increased fat stores, it may be that advancing age
    blunts in some way the harmful effects of increasing body fat. This possibility warrants further study.

    the fact that there are #openquestions in our understanding about fat is...pretty amazing. The best dataset in the world is waiting for you in america, you just gotta seize it

    > Chapman, I. M. (2008). Obesity in Old Age. Frontiers of Hormone Research, 97–106.
    sci-hub.se/10.1159/000115358
  18. @alcade @SwampWitchHerbalist just realizing now pumpkins are a type of flower

    > Although not known with certainty the total number of species in the order, conservative estimates indicate about 2600 species worldwide, distributed in 109 genera. Compared to other flowering plant orders, the taxonomy is poorly understood due to their great diversity, difficulty in identification, and limited study.

    We don't even know what pumpkins and their cousins in Cucurbitales are and how they relate to eachother

    Everything i know is a lie. #APGIII #biology #openquestions