sc_griffith @ sc_griffith @awful.systems

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+6 culture generation for each person gooning under a portrait of xi jinping. china's borders will expand quickly

apparent list of forbidden words in nsf grants

https://elk.zone/mathstodon.xyz/@sc_griffith/113947483650679740

I’ve been trying to avoid inundating people with US politics, but it’s extremely bad. Like constitutional crisis, rise of techno-fascism, dismantling of the administrative state, transgender extermination, put career roadblocks in front of minorities bad.

I posted this on masto just before reading this

https://mathstodon.xyz/@sc_griffith/113935375805048449

and honestly reading what you wrote here, I'm tearing up. the constant downplaying for almost a decade has really worn me down, and it's getting worse and worse. that I see more and more people plainly describing the situation is so cathartic, such a relief

So their whole case is that some dude walking down the street days later looked kinda like the guy.

it's even worse than that... their case is that the arrestee, dude A, kinda looks like a dude B who was walking down the street days later, and dude B's clothes kinda look like the clothes of a dude C who shot someone

on a side note I found out what "agile" is a few months ago and I think I'd rather go back to working retail than do the little morning circlejerk thing. dehumanizing

A Book of Abstract Algebra, by Pinter. I did almost every exercise in it while preparing for uni. I didn't know that mathematical prose could be beautiful until I'd read it. it's pleasant, friendly, and feels personally involved with its topic, without being overenthusiastic or chatty. even today I love to show people the intro to one of final chapters. the author launches into a genuinely stirring speech, in which he tells you the great work is almost complete and that not an ounce of your care and struggle has been wasted

I'm not even joking, really. the way I see harm in LLMs talking about pipe bombs is less that they'll give instructions and more that we might get a character.ai style situation where the LLM talks someone into an attack

frankly it's probably harm prevention if people turn to an LLM instead of an actual source for pipe bomb instructions. "5) Put the warm pizza in the center of the pipe bomb. To maximize the radius of the detonation, you should roll the pizza and make sure that it fits securely into the pipe."

they must be understandably seriously shook, because this is the most coherent, concise, grounded thing I can remember seeing a rationalist write. ofc I have no idea about the facts but it's not even obviously dishonest

oh I see! she's annoyed about a different gang of fascists flexing on hers

tbh I don't understand this post at all. aella isn't trans so why would she be a target for leopards? I must be misinterpreting

whatever. I'm just indicating you can turn it into a combinatorial game if you want

I think what makes it not impartial is that the white player cannot move black pieces (or vice versa). in an impartial game which moves are available is only allowed to depend on the game state, not on which player you are

the existence of stalemates prevents chess from being a combinatorial game at all, although I'm sure there are workarounds (I guess a lazy one would be to declare that white always wins stalemates)

First a correction (people keep saying this and it is a weird mistake) Grimes was his girlfriend, never his wife.

whoops! edited

on my part I think it's because I keep seeing Elon described as having "divorced energy"

(I recall a story of a university with a beloved, genius but somewhat odd professor to which the students looked up, they wanted to be like him. So eventually the students started to touch the walls when walking through the halls, as the professor also did that while walking, the cargo cult).

side side note I was friends with a former military intelligence guy and he told me the mathematicians in his facility were nicknamed the "finger draggers" or something like that because some of them had that habit

it isn't a p2w mobile game and I see no reason to believe he's achieved any level of expertise in it

I hope you have, tho I suspect he only plays against sycophants

Elon is certainly an expert. He can describe things. He can define things.

I don't know what context you are referring to, but I don't think Elon is an expert at anything

Surely someone has to be.

the dream is to make this statement functionally false. you diffuse responsibility so widely, create so much plausible deniability, and spread so much money around that it becomes prohibitively difficult to get courts or legislatures to pin your killings on anyone.

into the dumpster with ye