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No, I do not, in fact, "love AI". In fact I fucking hate it and its repercussions.

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@kuken
Both: "Can't¹ everyone² just³ be⁴ nice⁵?"

¹²³⁴⁵: hundreds of pages of footnotes

Gibbard's theorem is a restricted case where Goodhart's law is unavoidable

Unicode doesn't distinguish between a dollar sign
with one and a dollar sign with two strokes, which makes me sad.

performing a million moleFLOP on the common crawl
to cultivate a new gradientspawn

faux-translating “estrogeno” from esperanto, it means master-hormone or master-chemical

I don't remember where I first read this, but: A government's OODA loop is ~6 months long.

How long is *your* fundamental OODA loop?

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we have no moat, and neither does openai

drums

drums in the deep learning

they are coming

I want to live to see the Betelgeuse supernova in the sky

@rq @Reiddragon@mk.absturztau.be YES YES YES

@rq Let's implement *all* minimal spanning tree algorithms in Ocaml

@kaia

STOP MAKING SHEEP

YEARS OF BREEDING yet only GIANT FLOOFBALLS

These are REAL sheep, herded by REAL shepherds

Also nicely excludes some things that are Not My Job™, such as choosing which person to align the AI to or what to do about people who instruct AIs to do Bad Things™

Then I can say "that's *not my job*, sorry. talk to the policy people"

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