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1 month agoTo be fair, there are important differences between open source and closed source software.
Melllvar
Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!
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Ironically, billionaires probably do worry about money a lot. Just not in the same way everyone else does.
I’m curious how it’s considered a “layoff” if it’s based on performance rather than the job itself being eliminated.
I once experienced an episode of sleep paralysis with auditory hallucinations. I heard a deep masculine voice speaking in a guttural language that seemed just on the edge of being comprehensible to me. As if it were the primeval language from which all others sprang. The feel of the language in my ear was as familiar as my native tongue. I recognized the cadence, I could discern where one word ended and the next began, whether a sentence was a question, and so forth. But the words themselves were somehow alien.
I strained my senses trying to hear the voice more clearly. What horrible prophesy was I being given? What dreadful task have I been appointed? Am I the keymaster? The antichrist? Am I dying? Oh shit, that’s it, isn’t it? I’m dying and going to hell. Fuckfuckfuck. Um. I accept Jesus as my savior? …Buddha? …Joe Pesci?
Then I snapped out of it and the voice turned out to be the muffled sound of my neighbor’s TV. Praise be to Joe Pesci!
The correct technical term is magic smoke.
Not the wrong way either.
9·2 months agoJoey, have you ever been to a Turkish recruitment office?
3·3 months agoThey made a movie that dramatized the accidents really well:
…are non-US peanut butters less viscous?
The problem is that an AI built to maximize paperclips might conclude that converting the planet to paperclips is an acceptable cost of maximizing paperclip production. It might understand why humans think it’s bad to convert the planet, but disagree. It would need to be explicitly programmed to prioritize human life over paperclips.
otherwise we would just switch it off
If it were super-intelligent, it could probably trick us into leaving it turned on.
A paperclip maximizer driven by self-preservation? What could possiblie go wrong?
27·5 months agoSorry, I lost the world’s smallest violin. This is the best I can do: 🖕
Are there examples of censorship or prior restraint you’d like to highlight?
There’s a movie where the president (actually a decoy) fakes a stroke during a speech to Congress.
You may enjoy Fritz Leiber’s short story, “A Pail of Air”, which involves the Earth being ejected.
Funny “Haha” or funny “Uh Oh”?
What are you suggesting should have been done here?