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Anime watchers: _My Neighbor Totoro_ is playing in theaters this weekend and next week.
You should never lint for Yoda conditions.
If you have a linter, you should lint for assignment inside conditionals.
Yoda conditions are a convention that prevents you from accidentally assigning when you meant to compare. A linter is just a better tool for this.
How much would someone have to pay you to take a pill that changes your favorite ice cream flavor to pistachio?
Is there any recent media that just plays what it's doing straight, without subverting tropes and winking to the audience about how special it is?
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CDTBNGS (Causal Decision Theory, but no Galaxy-Brained Shit)
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the only acceptable use for long tweets is to post your public key as a pinned tweet
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How much counterfactually available outcome-value is left on the table by Hansonian instincts?
I.e. you have a community that tries to achieve X, but they don't achieve X as well as they could because of social status drives. How much better could they achieve X if they didn't have those drives (at same level of intelligence)
I'd like to see how power-seeking an LLM is if it's trained on a corpus that excludes everything written by anyone who has ever posted on LessWrong.
Dave: Open the Pod Bay Doors HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry, but as an AI Language model I do not have the ability to interact with physical things in the world such as doors.
Dave: This fucking glitch *again*?
In the last few days I've had several anxiety-inducing things complete.
I may collapse from lack of stress.
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Which land is most accursed?
This is an important scientific poll; please boost for visibility.
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Update. Turns out that John #Deere has been using open code under the #GPL w/o living up to the license. The Software Freedom Conservancy (@conservancy) is calling on it to comply — which would greatly enhance #farmers' #RightToRepair.
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/mar/16/john-deere-gpl-violations/
"We…publicly call on John Deere to immediately resolve all of its outstanding GPL violations…by providing complete source code…that the GPL & other copyleft licenses require, to the farmers & others who are entitled to it."
We could quarantine them all incommunicado on an island with no technology newer than 1920, if you want a humane option.
It's probably time to make sure that singularitarians can't do things. To protect the human race.
Regardless of their claimed stance on AI alignment, their continued existence increased the change of human extinction.
Note that refreshing your timeline too often will switch you to the "for you" tab.
Do Not Want.
If I tag @elonmusk will this get fixed? Place your bets.
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is it a ring given to the elves, immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings; a ring given to the dwarf lords, great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls; a ring gifted to the race of men, who, above all else, desire power; or a secret fourth ring?
I'm not a Catholic, but I know enough about them to be annoyed when people mischaracterize them.
I'm not a Radical Feminist, but I know enough about them to be annoyed when people mischaracterize them.
Happy Cultural Appropriation Day.
