What do you mean I have to define my aesthetic preferences in order to enforce them
Pip Foweraker 🔶️
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Every hour an Global Catastrophic Risks researcher spends on bureaucracy or operations is a tragedy. Let me and beacongcr.org help. Building pdoom1.com Founding certesinstitute.org All opinions presented here are, by extension, expressions of my employers
Why would anyone take drugs when they can read error logs
Patching day! The best day for discovering detritus from the froth of creation
Believe-by-default claims-to-moral-patienthood norms
I would like my cultural, memetic and civilizational contributions to be recognised in an equitable fashion.
Competent global administration does not require superintelligence
Bilateral symmetry is overrated. Why can't I have a short arm (scratching) and a long arm (reaching)
Having an American housemates is mostly fantastic, but I am 8 rounds deep in a Kryten v Rimmer rematch of whether tomato sauce lives in the fridge or not
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Techno will bring you to the mountain, but to climb it you need House
Computer games are fun, I'll grant you, but have you ever manually picked up black sock lint from a carpeted room?
The emotional payoff from being able to precisely go find a Cabal Ritual from where I stored it in 2002 is nearly overwhelming
"By legally mandating that any recursively self-improving AI system must submit its expansion algorithms via physical fax machine to a local Bürgeramt, we can structurally guarantee a safe, slow takeoff." - safeaigermany.org
"(60% we shut it down given misalignment from other steps)" BY WHAT MECHANISM
I seem to have been given authority commensurate with my love of paperwork, particularly, international tax paperwork. This is dharma
unbelievable. caught him slacking blissfully inside a balloon of his own making. the utter impertinence of this gremlin
Bluesky: the website for "38 year olds" who are all slowly becoming friends with crows and other birds.
olivia nuzzi: oysters contain pearls, nature's metaphor that out of mess comes jewelry. as a witness to eris casting out the golden apple, none of them are as hot as me. it is important that witnesses remain impartial.
I just want to get paid pennies to tolerate ads, is that so much to ask
Many LLM-enabled products will cause no harm! But the ones that do, will often tend to do so in ways that self-propagate, are intentionally spread via humans, take over other users' accounts, and otherwise run out of control Those processes need the statistics of social trends or diseases
the 'c' in chard is short for 'chewing-this-is-incredibly-'
13 out of 18 alive and in new pots. Total biomass increases. I choose to interpret this as a win!
The humourously oblique notes I left myself on the outside of 47 otherwise visually identical book boxes are not at all tiring to parse after months of no context
"When this mind is retrieved, it will be the true mind, and once the true mind appears, it can extinguish demons." - Xiyou zhengdao shu 西遊證道書, 1662, facs. reprint Guben xiaoshuo jicheng 古本小説集成, 437-440, Shanghai, 1990.
At some point one must admit it's not a series of pivots so much as a poorly executed pirouette
