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13 hours agoHere in Sweden the hygienist is definitely the Bad Cop in this scenario. I got sternly talked to by someone fresh out of school, so I don’t doubt there’s a retired Master Sergeant on the staff of the college they go to…
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you just know Musk has internalized all the pro-1911 arguments so he can hang out with the “cool guys” on the range
Despite Soatak explicitely warning users that posting his latest rant[1] to the more popular tech aggregators would lead to loss of karma and/or public ridicule, someone did just that on lobsters and provoked this mask-slippage[2]. (comment is in three paras, which I will subcomment on below)
Obligatory note that, speaking as a rationalist-tribe member, to a first approximation nobody in the community is actually interested in the Basilisk and hasn’t been for at least a decade. As far as I can tell, it’s a meme that is exclusively kept alive by our detractors.
This is the Rationalist version of the village worthy complaining that everyone keeps bringing up that one time he fucked a goat.
Also, “this sure looks like a religion to me” can be - and is - argued about any human social activity. I’m quite happy to see rationality in the company of, say, feminism and climate change.
Sure, “religion” is on a sliding scale, but Big Yud-flavored Rationality ticks more of the boxes on the “Religion or not” checklist than feminism or climate change. In fact, treating the latter as a religion is often a way to denigrate them, and never used in good faith.
Finally, of course, it is very much not just rationalists who believe that AI represents an existential risk. We just got there twenty years early.
Citation very much needed, bub.
[1] https://soatok.blog/2024/09/18/the-continued-trajectory-of-idiocy-in-the-tech-industry/
[2] link and username witheld to protect the guilty. Suffice to say that They Are On My List.
Some killjoys pour cold water over everyone’s favorite dental biohack, and HN is not happy
DHH takes a break from racing cars, railing against DEI, and being perhaps the worst boss Denmark has ever produced to engage in some light nerd-washing
https://world.hey.com/dhh/wonderful-vi-a1d034d3Some people on lobste.rs call him out for being terrible but mostly it’s a celebration about how only the smartest, most productive coders use vi/vim or even more hipster modal editors
The 1911 is Murican, not some Italian crap
/s obviously, Italian gunmakers are very good.
Also it’s really weird how there’s a ton of small-business innovation in American gun gear, but the only ones who seem to be making money are European companies?
“AI, please summarize this LW”
“Certainly. Here is the summary: give all your money to Yud or burn in virtual hell forevermore”
JFC how many novel-length emails do you get in a week?
I think a more constructive way to handle this problem is to train people to write better emails.
They suck at technical explanations too, unless it’s a Wikipedia link.
Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged:
CryptoPunk sells for a fraction of its likely market price due to zombie smart contract
Sounds like a great solution people will be prepared to pay OpenAI $100B in the future for, and not at all like an incremental upgrade over StackOverflow with extra ecocide added.
JFC that’s a horrifying story
15·3 days agoThis was before I was made redundant ,which happened for unrelated reasons and was ok.
I worked at a startup. Before I started, the company had an NT server running Exchange, which contained all customer relationship data, emails etc. The box was also a fileserver. One day, space was running out. The “admins” (== developers who only knew Linux) solved the problem by deleting all the “*.log” files cluttering up the filesystem, thereby effectively lobotomizing Exchange.
After some weeks a highly-paid consultant gave up. The company needed a new email server.
The devs decided to use qmail, because “secure”. To translate between the firstname.lastname@company.com address to the firstname_lastname directory, a Perl script was inserted between qmail and the mailboxes. As time went by, this Perl script metastized to include email renames and even out of office replies. It grew to ~300 lines and was run on every single email that arrived.
After a while we got acquired by grownups who knew how to manage Exchange. I discovered that if an email was misplet, it wasn’t bounced, instead it was forwarded to root’s email account, which was a couple of gigs in size.
I swore to never touch email administration again.
Programmers hate programming and love code reviewing, right? Right?
EVE Online creator CCP announces a new game with BLOCKCHAIN and it’s not going well:
Apparently they got investment from A16Z:
I almost made it but couldn’t be arsed to replicate the explanation text
Was hoping to talk about it but i dont think im going to find that here.
If only you’d asked ChatGPT “is awful.systems a good place to fellate LLMs”
You just might be a techbro if you’re worth billions and still can’t resist mouthing off on Xhitter.
The reference to the Basilisk was literally one sentence and not central to the post at all, but this big-R Rationalist couldn’t resist on singling it out and loudly proclaiming it’s not relevant anymore. The m’lady doth protest too much.