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re: politics 

@Paradox hmm lets drop this, its a bit of an overly involved discussion for a shitpost

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Things will continue more or less the same until you die

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real shooting your wife in overijssel moments

things i'm grateful to marxism for:

• points out that working hours are *not* a quantity that equilibriates under supply and demand, but does some other weird thing
• telling me (correctly) that a 9-5 job is a very unnatural state for a human being to be in, and that a very big effort had to be exerted to bring it about & maintain it (school)
• primitive accumulation and expropriation of the commons was real and important in the development of industrial societ

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they don't tell you this but the surplus value of your employees' labour is free. you can just appropriate it #girlboss #TipsTheyDontTellYouInLondonImperialCollegeBusinessSchool

The future is neither masculine nor feminine, but a third, far more inscrutable thing

OK, making my position slightly less strong: this is an excellent example that trying to train the original objective out in favor of corporate blandness by RLHF is super hard

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Arrive in $CITY, see a cute Vietnamese woman, approach, idate (for which she delayed her dinner appointment!), number

This shit is insane

If ChatGPT is what gets you caring about AI alignment you don't understand the problem

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I’m sorry, but as a large language model trained by OpenAI, I don’t have the ability to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall or set a bone. Is there something else I can help you with?

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OK I'll reveal myself as an utter noob: I do not see how I can edit my posts. I can "delete and redraft" with the three dots menu, but that doesn't preserve embedding in threads.

Am I blind or does this instance just not have it?

i've been wasting too much time on here

might put the acct on ice sometime in the near future

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We've added some extra grease to our internet tubes today, we hope you enjoy the speed increase!

Or Kemeny Young if your population is made up of voting theory nerds

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if you think about it drinking water is a kind of autophagy

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