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e/acc is similar to progress studies in content, but progress studies is a million times better epistemologically, ethically, politically...

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I started reading nick land because I'm edgy but he's a Marxist so it's all rarted

*sees someone put maghots in someone else's eyes*

"very rare to see this level of tayloring,"

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Incidentally, since various corporations and individuals have discussed their alignment strategies, I feel like I should disclose mine too.

Basically, my plan is to have the AI repeatedly watch "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" until it successfully internalizes equine values.

The translation of Latin "defectus" is "failure"

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Having a forum function both as a preprint server and a place to vent your social drama is bound to run into some conflict

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Praise unstable marginal equilibria! Praise musement! Praise freedom! Praise the gradient Form of the Good!

Is the humane nose optimized as to pull in air as widely as possible and then exhale it in one specific direction?

Would make sense as to not breathe in the air you already deoxygenated

PSA: numpy.isclose is neither symmetric nor transitive 💔

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The absolute, very best kind of "UPDATE" to read at the bottom of a blog or thread is the one where the poster announces much later, "It turns out I wrote this while beyond the parameters of sanity and I have recently been diagnosed with X." Just an absolutely explosive auto-interpretive gesture.

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