Melllvar

You should cut diagonally. If it makes a sandwich better, imagine what it can do for a novel.

That’s what dihydrogen monoxide poisoning does to average IQs.

Reminds me of the old trick on HTML forms where you use CSS to make one of the form fields invisible to humans and reject any submission that filled in that field.

E099: PROGRAMMER IS OVERLY POLITE

Obligatory:

The problem is that an AI built to maximize paperclips might conclude that converting the planet to paperclips is an acceptable cost of maximizing paperclip production. It might understand why humans think it’s bad to convert the planet, but disagree. It would need to be explicitly programmed to prioritize human life over paperclips.

otherwise we would just switch it off

If it were super-intelligent, it could probably trick us into leaving it turned on.

A paperclip maximizer driven by self-preservation? What could possiblie go wrong?

Pirate King: HE DID?!? … oh… oh, yes so he did… I was there.

Who grades the test? Who judges the competition?

Yes

The problem is that you’re using Windows 95.

Are there examples of censorship or prior restraint you’d like to highlight?

Ctrl-F “plato”

Required reading

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Force feedback codpieces.

252.6 hours played, last played October 2024.

It’s enjoyable, but I’ve never been really engaged with it. There’s no progression, I don’t feel like my character, equipment, or ships are getting better even though I’m upgrading things. No planet is special, even though they’re all unique.

I think it would be better if you started out in a “settled” region with interesting factions, hand-designed planets, optional quest lines, etc. The infinite procedurally generated stuff would come into play if you push beyond the edges of known space.

There is no such thing as an innocent billionaire.

Yet Trump can declassify documents by thought alone.

“I have too much self respect and dignity, love my family way too much, and do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms,” she wrote in a statement.

She could just not run for re-election if that’s what she’s actually worried about. Resigning early doesn’t make sense.

Only people who live in the country.

Also, the census doesn’t only count citizens.