The next generation of safe programming languages should protect me from malicious libraries. Everything other than returning bytes should be behind a capability. Auditing and minimizing dependencies isn't going to work any better than 'just write better code' did in C.

Scientist after their 13th subgroup analysis returns p=.047:

At long last, we have created the Whispering Earring from the classic story Don't Wear The Whispering Earring by Scott Alexander web.archive.org/web/2012100802…

No, you guys don't get it, he's an AI doomer. A depression is the one thing that'll actually slow AI progress. He's giving us time to solve alignment. Trust the plan.

President Xi., I am American data scientist. My government is starving my research, and is not giving me enough data to feed my spreadsheets. Please send Chengdu J-20 Multirole Stealth Fighter Aircraft

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