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My husband and I took a disagreement to Claude today, by happenstance. It was very helpful!

---TracingWoodgrains, who apparently feels that he is qualified to judge any other human being, ever, in spite of evidence to the contrary

Not everything that Yud writes feels like it should be read in the voice of Augustus St. Cloud, but a lot of it sure does.

"I have Lawfulness concerns" is just another way of saying "I deserve to be shoved into a locker".

"When the 8-year-old and I have an argument, it actually works really well to mutually agree on an account of events... and then take cocaine together."

new Vagina Museum

sex weirdo (derogatory)

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

I should never have to open the settings in Notepad. Reason being: it's Notepad. God fuckin damn I hate the computer.

https://bsky.app/profile/iainnd.bsky.social/post/3lxdvmkua4227

I got my start with line-number BASIC, MS-DOS batch files and x86 assembly.

Oh, and once in college, I got really high and made a Visual Basic program that had no graphical user interface.

Apart from the Hellraiser fanfiction.

"I love the Power Glove, it’s just so deeply and seamlessly integrated into Excel!"

Thought 1: This is the kind of incident that makes politicians vote for a law named after a dead kid. It behooves us to think of what kind of legislation could actually address the problem without becoming a clusterfuck that worsens everyone's life, including children's. cough #OnlineSafetyAct cough

Thought 2: Hey, all you guys using LLMs to replace opinion surveys or do "research" on social interactions because it's cheaper than gathering real data... How many human beings talk like the suicide-encouragement bot here?

Thought 3: Oh, remember when OpenAI paid $10 million to buy off the American Federation of Teachers? Because Pepperidge Farm still has that browser tab open. Every school administrator who breathes a word about bringing "AI" into the classroom deserves to get lit up by parents asking why they are embracing suicide tech.

That story mentions Carl Sagan but omits the detail that Peter the dolphin propositioned him. (It's in the William Poundstone biography, IIRC.)

Imagr description: Steven Pinker, Lawrence Krauss and Jeffrey Epstein, posted as per tradition when either of the latter two are mentioned

This exploit was discovered by two security guys at the Brave web browser.

Heartbreaking.jpg

And the font size just increased?

"Which Scott?"

"Any of them."

Scrolling after doing the "view votes" thing seems to work now.

James Gleick on "The Lie of AI":

https://around.com/the-lie-of-ai/

Nothing new for regulars here, I suspect, but it might be useful to have in one's pocket.

They gave him a thread in which to complain about being banned... Are these people polyamorous just because they don't know how to break up?

From the comments:

Finally, I dislike the arrogant, brash, confident, tone of many posts on LessWrong.

Hmm, OK. Where might this be going?

Plausibly, I think a lot of this is inherited from Eliezer, who is used to communicating complex ideas to people less intelligent and/or rational than he is. This is not the experience of a typical poster on LessWrong, and I think it's maladaptive for people to use Eliezer's style and epistemic confidence in their own writings and thinking.