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Fine. Someone hit me with a BlueSky invite and I'll see if I can get on there.

@CrushBead @Elfie @w7voa @Bad_Banner @graf that sounds like the kind of thing that should have a handy screenshot to drop in a chat.

Everybody knows the Ea-Nasir facts, only people who took anthropology classes know the interesting conjecture:

Fact: most sumerian clay tablets were not baked/fired, they were usually recycled and the clay reused.

Fact: the Ea-Nasir complaint tablets were found, baked, in the ruins of a house.

Therefore we might assume that Ea-Nasir kept his unbaked complaint tablets in his house and somebody burned his house down.

If you find yourself "reasoning" like this, you're NGMI.

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It's important for you to know that not only is that guy cringe, he also has a known history of being friends with someone who is creepy.

Alice: I found a link to something called "Sneer Club" that shows how cringe this guy is.

Bob: If you find yourself fighting by checking Sneer Club for cringe, you're NGMI.

@domenic hmm.

Maybe I should do more testing. I was under the impression that http on localhost wouldn't get me, say, a service worker.

I'm pretty sure there are APIs that are blocked on file: URLs for security reasons.

If your case rests on a Novel Interpretation of the law, you're gonna have a bad time.

Me: Boy, I'd like to test that new browser API. Let me spin up a small project on localhost.

WHATWG: Sorry, https only.

The assumption that Yudkowsky is calling for terrorism is predicated on the assumption that the only people who will listen to him are loons with no political power, thus his call for government action is actually a call for extra-governmental action.

What can you rely on GPT-4 for that you couldn't rely on GPT-3 for?

Anakin: I have an exotic decision theory that let's me one-box on Newcomb's Problem.

Padme: But allows you to make normal decisions otherwise, right?

Anakin:

Padme: But allows you to make normal decisions otherwise, right?

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