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Re:Prime Numbers Are So Memorable That People Hunt for Them by miki123211 on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @04:19PM (#42785321)
How was this never mentioned in Unsong? Not a single time?
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Re:Prime Numbers Are So Memorable That People Hunt for Them by TeMPOraL on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @04:27PM (#42785389)
IDK, I guess Scott Alexander didn't do his research thoroughly enough. Still, UNSONG is already pretty much a fractal of references and callouts to such things.

On that note, how is it I've never seen anyone connecting the famous "God of the gaps"[0] with a demon literally named "Lord of the Gap"?

(In case no one really did, let history and search engines mark this comment as the first.)

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps

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