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"The room" is imaginary online-- how about you read the text?

The one thing I miss about being a kid is how late 3 AM feels. They need to make new nights with extra hours so that I can have the 'omg I'm up so late' feeling again

how far can you get into the monster mash before you get too scared and have to turn it off? for me it's when he beholds an eerie sight

steelmanning is too weak. you need to jiatan the opposing argument, supporting and strengthening it for two years, to ultimately place a backdoor that makes it an argument for your case

Suzanne Treister: "In the late 1980s I was making paintings about computer games. In January 1991 I bought an Amiga computer and made a series of fictional videogame stills using Deluxe Paint II. I photographed them straight from the screen as there was no other way to output

Dialectic between tvtropes "growing the beard" and Julian's Misopogon

The thing I found most disturbing in the board debacle was that hundreds of OpenAI staff signed a letter that appears to treat the old-fashioned OpenAI view "OpenAI's mission of ensuring AGI benefits humanity matters more than our success as a company" as not just wrong, but

I dreamt I was playing an FMV adventure game from the 90s designed by Peli Grietzer

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sorry but yeah another trump administration would be absolutely terrible for literally almost everyone and it's actually good for people to talk about that before the election and not after

Whenever I have fresh mint I feel like I'm meeting a celebrity like 'omg you're the plant from the famous flavor'

On July 11, JD Vance argued that Big Tech CEOs are scaring people about AI’s dangers to secure their position at the top of the industry. Maybe the craziest thing about the AI risk debates is the strange bedfellows it generates. Versions of this argument have been made by...

"Heisei-era Internet Anxiety" is maybe the best genre of film that exists.

Interestingly, this not a flawed proof that only yields the correct result by coincidence. It turns out the method can be rigorously justified and generalized to other ODEs. I'll discuss how and also some interesting applications of this approach in systems and control theory.

I do actually have an old blog post on the idea that all X is political. My basic position is: there's a sense in which it is true, but as such, in abstract, it's not very interesting. In general people should argue over specifics not slogans 🤷🏾‍♂️ sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2019/08/on-uni…