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Remembering Peter Eckersley — Toby Ord

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A eulogy for Peter Eckersley Delivered at his official memorial service Internet Archive, San Francisco, 4 March 2023 Twenty-six years ago, I sat down in an underground room at Melbourne University. A hall of identical computers. Next to me was a stylish young man with this on his

Remembering Peter Eckersley March 14, 2023 Toby Ord A eulogy for Peter Eckersley Delivered at his official memorial service Internet Archive, San Francisco, 4 March 2023 Twenty-six years ago, I sat down in an underground room at Melbourne University. A hall of identical computers. Next to me was a stylish young man with this on his screen: View fullsize I couldn’t believe it. My screen was all grey, with a single blue window with white text. “How did you get it to look like that?” I asked. “Well, you just need to ‘gvim .fvwm2rc’,” he replied. “What?” “No problem, I’ll just send you all my conf

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