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That comment is just a fanciful flight of whimsy.

> Gwern was the first patient to successfully complete a medical transition to the gender he was originally assigned at birth... his older brother died of a Nuvigil overdose in 2001... his (rather tasteful) neck tattoo of the modafinil molecule

The only concrete things we know about gwern are that he's a world-renowned breeder of Maine Coons and that he is the sole known survivor of a transverse cerebral bifurcation.

He does have a neck tattoo, but it's actually a QR code containing the minimal weights to label MNIST at 99% accuracy.






> The only concrete things we know about gwern are that he's a world-renowned breeder of Maine Coons and that he is the sole known survivor of a transverse cerebral bifurcation.

How do you know those things are true?


They aren't, he doesn't even live in Maine.

You clearly don’t know what a Maine Coon is…



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