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10,040karma·2,605submissions·May 27, 2017
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> who doesn't cook for his husband properly At least they were forward-looking on social issues.
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I'm annoyed to have been born early enough for biological life extension to not be available, but late enough to actually consider it a possibility.
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You'll slip in the shower sooner or later.
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Still disappointed it's not a swamp as promised by 20th century science fiction.
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Thanks!
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Which one?
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Kenya?
4 pts
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You need to factor in advancements in emergency medicine since 1980.
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Written by a shiba inu
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Funnily enough, the actress who voiced this line is a Scientologist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Cartwright#Personal_life …
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Pertinent Twitter comment: "Rationalism is such an insane name for a school of thought. Like calling your ideology correctism or winsargumentism" https://x.com/growing_daniel…
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Gemini 2.5 Pro gets this correct on the first attempt, and specifically points out the transparency of the glass of water. https://g.co/gemini/share/362506056ddb Time to get…
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As far as I know, it’s his own term.
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Efficient, cross-domain optimization. I believe that’s Eliezer Yudkowsky’s definition.
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"Magnets. How do they work?"
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*what people crave.
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A Robert Heinlein story about how this will likely go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13VS_klDrio …
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When you're recalling a memory, do you remember the position of every blade of grass, or the exact angle of the Sun? Humans, the only extant example of a general intelligence, don't do lossl…
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Lossily or losslessly?
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>like when models start sucking up to users or making up facts That's the default mode of LLMs.
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I think that was Qatar.
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>Do you want federal cut backs or not? The right-leaning people caught up in this would probably say "Yes, but not in my obviously highly efficient division."
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I suppose they're involuntarily practicing a high form of civic virtue, although that doesn't pay off the mortgage.