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@jec please feel free to substitute <the Platonic form of the person you are becoming> if you're not already using that definition for "soul".

What's the best sequel euphemism for Vibecamp 2?

I recommend against wishing your enemies would die.

You do more damage to your soul by holding this opinion than you might think.

I think it's pretty clear that OpenAI is completely incompetent at safety, for any kind of safety you wish to use.

- Ordinary cybersecurity breaches
- Can't keep the AI from becoming waluigi
- Not a paperclip maximizer, only because it's a chatbot with no goals

Weirdos don't Stan murderers who appear at a glance to be part of your people challenge (impossible).

For everyone worried that the AI will teach people how to make bombs, I propose:

Anything in _The Anarchist's Cookbook_ does not need to be censored. It's too late, that knowledge is already out there.

Really starting to hope that OpenAI is deliberately pushing an unreliable product into production use to spark a new AI Winter.

Because if not, their safety focus is badly broken.

I now have rsync backing up my phone to my NAS automatically.

(Via the app syncopoli, but that's basically an rsync frontend and scheduler.)

We need low-background citations (sources published before Wikipedia existed.)

(By analogy to low-background steel, smelted before nuclear testing started, and thus not tainted with radioactive elements.)

@SJohnRoss I'm not even sure what it would mean for something earnest to wink, honestly.

the map is not the territory. for one, it takes a lot fewer soldiers to occupy the map

@empathy2000

So, one advantage of Medium is that you can log into it with your Twitter account.

@flats yeah. The project I'm on is using the WordPress coding standards and they demand

If ( 0 === $count )

and lint for that too. So annoying.

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