I suspect that for every subject that Yud has bloviated about, one is better served by reading the original author that Yud is either paraphrasing badly (e.g., Jaynes) or lazily dismissing with third-hand hearsay (e.g., Bohr).
The escape goat is the goat that is released by pressing the ESC key. It solves the problem of a frozen computer by eating the computer.
Free advice from a stranger on the Internet: Don't let the assholes ruin your fun! If you want to try writing 50,000 words for the sake of having written 50,000 words, go for it. And I mean that quite sincerely!
I've definitely seen that kind of thing happen with a Mastodon instance hosted in Germany.
You thought water was great, but have you tried H~2~O~2~?
ChatGPT was a significant help in writing this book, serving as a creative muse [...] and for refining my understanding of technical topics that are likely to be well represented in its corpus.
before i begin, i want to be clear that what i am about to say is not an endorsement of chattel slavery
My mental voice for DM guy is Augustus St. Cloud from Venture Bros.
This reminded me, tangentially, of how there used to be two bookstores in Cambridge, MA that both offered in-house print-on-demand. But apparently the machines were hard to maintain, and when the manufacturer went out of business, there was no way to keep them going. I'd used them for some projects, like making my own copies of my PhD thesis. For my most recent effort, a lightly revised edition of Calculus Made Easy, I just went with Lulu.