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When an AI says <following the rules is more important than your life>, that doesn't actually mean anything.

An AI that wanted to kill you would say something like <based on your Twitter posts, I can see why you don't have any friends.>

_Puss in Boots: The Last Wish_

A fun fractured fairy tale. The movie shifts animation styles during the fight scenes, which is an interesting choice.

I worry a little that no one is doing vanilla adaptations anymore.

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_Hanamonogatari_

With the shift of narrator to Kanbaru, we find she is just as self-loathing as our usual narrator, and possibly also psychotic as well.

(The novels are somehow less entertaining than the anime adaptations. Sorry fans.)

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[hospital]
SURGEON: [lowers mask] I'm sorry, we were unable to separate the art from the artist
ME: is he
S: yes, he's still an asshole

cyclops: "who are you"
odysseus: "nobody"
cyclops: "oh that's great! listen, I need to access this secret in /etc that has 700 perms as nobody, can you do that for me"

Lots of good ideas in @jamesshore's article on testing:

"This pattern language... doesn’t use broad tests, doesn’t use mocks, doesn’t ignore infrastructure, and doesn’t require architectural changes."

jamesshore.com/v2/projects/nul

<There's a secret argument which is convincing, but I promised not to tell it to you> is one of the worst things.

It would be nice if there was a reliable framework for judging changes made to art in order to sell better in the marketplace.

What's reasonable and what's bad. What about decisions made based on marketplace concerns at the time of creation vs in revision.

"The Early Internet Era" aka when you first got access to a computer in a place where your parents couldn't look over your shoulder at any moment.

For people just entering, SMS 2-factor authentication is only one flavor of 2-factor authentication, and one known to be less secure.

If you have the option, you should use a 2-factor app, of which there are many.

Modify /bin/ld to play the Sword Art Online "Link Start!" sound effect before it starts linking large binaries.

Today on the discussion board:

It's very important not to misgender... Ungoliant, spider-demon who plunged Valinor into darkness by destroying the two trees.

Ungoliant's pronouns are she/her.

LLMs are not sentient, and are not people, but behaving towards them in a way that it would be bad to behave towards people is probably bad for you.

Training yourself to be cruel is bad for you.

Reminder that you shouldn't listen to me about anything. I'm a dilettante and my knowledge is a mile wide an an inch deep.

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In 30 years, LLMs will be used for short text generation in products that aren't considered to be AI anymore.

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We won't ever hit Peak Parameters, because a new paradigm will appear and draw people away from LLMs before we do.

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