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@panchromaticity surely there must be a word that describes the reaction to negative-fulfill a request

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“If you really cared about this AI thing, you’d replicate Ted Kaczynski’s successful strategy.”

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what if we held hands 👉👈 🥺
at the Sloan Great Wall
and listened to the pulsars sing

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I notice I can just *not engage* with the Discourse and do my job

this person: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_

"the transatlantic ferry won't give me a perk? okay i'll just walk to poland then. bering strait here i come"

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you are trying to solve the right problem :) with the right methods :) based on a correct model of the world :) derived from accurate thinking :)

@niconiconi good meownyaa but you add an "a" every morning

@WomanCorn
The name is also allegedly very fitting, from what I've heard about the guy ("niceness field" and all that)

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Hot take: Making poorly calibrated public predictions is pretty awesome.

Not only can you learn from them, but it's fantastic that you were willing to predict something concrete clearly enough to actually be wrong - which is unfortunately rare.

@snacks
word that was vaguely gesturing at "your predictions about the world will be far worse and your decisions will lead to your values not being fulfilled"

@amy

You can do it! A random internet stranger believes in you!

(now for my anxiety-inducing email…)

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