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Okay but this particular war movie went pretty hard. You should try it

he's still working on the books, it's not like he's never finishing them

imagine thinking this was a bigger deal than 9/11

they didn't cancel football for a week when JFK got killed

Both of them have repeatedly said they would never do this.

I'd prefer proscriptions.

Most American cities make *that* mistake. California however discovered many new and unique mistakes to make the problem even worse.

They're not out of land, they're just using it terribly

Okay so why are you crawling up Stancil's ass about it?

It's uniquely bad in California because of uniquely bad state laws and local regulations.

Okay, but that's a local problem. Every time someone says something about national trends,a Californioid comes in to tell us how awful your shitty state is... so like, fix it? We didn't fuck it up, we don't even live there.

AI is not your friend, and it cannot be trusted. It has been trained to have goals, and we literally don't know what those goals are.

(this is why Grok vacillates between MechaHitler and just ignoring Musk's fascist system prompt. he doesn't know how to get Grok to share his beliefs. nobody does)

No one even knows how to comprehensively define human values in plain English, let alone machine code, but you're going to build an optimizer that trains a model that has exactly those values, hmm?

No, the struggle is whether AI is good or bad. Until we solve the alignment problem, the factional allegiance of whomever creates an AI literally doesn't matter

marx in profile pic, opinion disregarded

Everyone tells me this, but in order to get that far I'd first have to sit through seasons 1 & 2, and there are about 10,000 better uses of my time than that

Calling LLMs string generators is unfair. They're optimized to generate strings, but those optimizations create enormous potential for emergent capabilities. They're far more dangerous than "string generator" implies.

By any measure, college grads earn more money and live easier lives than people who do not go to college. Cancelling student debt does nothing but hand cash to people who are already rich

I think college should be more affordable for sure, perhaps even free. Everyone should have access to college regardless of their wealth. I do not think people *who have already gone to college* should have their debts canceled. They are already privileged! They have a degree!

Screenshot of Europa Universalis V showing the Iberian peninsula, where Portugal is slightly too wide.

Staring for my screen for a moment, I said, "Am I tripping or did Portugal eat a bit of Castille... I've seen enough maps to know what Portugal's supposed to look like."

Wife responded "Wide Portugal," and put on Piano Fantasia - Song for Denise

they are two different problems which can happen to exacerbate one another. but they are still different problems with different solutions

only someone who has never experienced either would say this

no they are not

wtf is a nabe

That would be a very good point if those places had all the jobs.

Isn't it?

They're both wrong. The empire collapsed because of the decay of state institutions which sapped its internal cohesion and its ability to react to external threats.

In other words, it collapsed because nothing lasts forever.

California is a deeply silly place

Oh they were, the whole world was fascinated by it. The Republic of San Marino made Lincoln an honorary citizen.

I might be misreading the text, but it sounds like this Stephen fellow himself sympathizes with the Union and disagrees with the sentiment he claims is common among other Englishmen