Funding research on artificial intelligence safety. It's all fun & games until someone loses an I futureoflife.org/misc/AI

Tip: Split your to-do list into small, manageable next actions. Otherwise, you might die with major unfinished business and become a ghost.

"Can't go to afterlife until I've brought murderers to justice": ghost. "...spent 10m googling detectives & picked next action": not ghost.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; Solution there, it seems to me, Is to succeed & reach your goal

It matters not how strait the gate You try to enter with your soul; Solution there, it seems to me, Is going through a bigger hole.

Every year, to maintain eternal youth, Dorian sheds a ghostly self—but after half a century, they escape the underworld. (50 Shades of Gray)

New Year's Eve, 2024. A woman meets an enigmatic businessman, not knowing her entire world... is about to change colour. (50 Shades of Grue)

Anastasia interviews a mysterious French economist. She finds he's a man who obeys his own law—and creates his own demand (50 Shades of Say)

The dreaded "damnatio memetica" meant that the names of those who fell out of favour with the Senate would be erased from all viral content.

@GabrielDuquette You're welcome!

I used to be a pianist like you, then I took Nancarrow in the knee.

Reality exists distributed across old stored versions of stupid essays about its themes—the doctrine of "it from nitwit lit crit git commit"

When the moon hits your eye & you fall down and die, this is Sparta When the world seems to shine in the Hell where you dine, this is Sparta

Up Shutter Five: like Up Goer Five, but you can only use the zero most common words.

"Wait. Wait! What if we were to kill him… in the present?" —Claus von Stauffenberg, after years of fruitless research in time travel physics

It's very rude of you to be hurt by me. Even if you have no intention of carrying it out, you're still implicitly threatening revenge.

What the astrologers forget is that constellation does not imply causation.