actual conversations i definitely had at sparc | Infinite Ascent

entirely verbatim, trust me

me : so, what do you think are the pertinent parts to your identity? camper : huh? me : i mean, what parts of yourself do you think are important to making you, you? camper : uh camper : camper : i dunno me : oh me : what kinds of things do you like? camper : video games? me : oh same camper : and books me : wow me too ⁂ camper : so alice and bob are in different rooms and each see an infinite random series of coin flips me : mhm camper : then alice says an integer i and bob says an integer j , and they win if alice’s j th coin flip and bob’s i th coin flip are both heads me : yep camper : now

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• Laura Gao
• Jacob G-W
• Zoe Schurman
• Switch. er. oo
• Catherine Wu
• Anderson Hao

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