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sometimes a friend comes by to drop something and says "yeah after that i'm off to a puzzle warehouse" and you have no choice but to leave your depression spiral, get dressed, and follow that friend to the middle of nowhere to see the puzzle warehouse

there's two floors.

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sharks every time theres a cataclysmic extinction event: damn thats crazy. anyway

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AITA for giving my housemate gender dysphoria?

I (32F) recently got a gig as a live in housekeeper for a haunted mansion. I'm like 85% sure the job posting was a scam to try and feed me to the house in order to stave off its eternal hunger for another decade or so. But it pays alright and I don't have to pay rent as long as I'm living here.

One of the ghosts (~250M(?)) possessed my body a few nights ago, but instead of, I don't know, making me climb onto a blaustrade or something, he got real quiet. I don't think he ever possessed a trans woman before and he just kinda spent the whole night staring at my hrt pill bottles.

Since then, he's still been wandering the halls at the stroke of midnight, shattering all the mirrors that mysteriously regenerate by morning, but it seems like his heart hasn't been in it.

(Are the mirrors symbolic of something???)

He (she?) is definitely going through some shit. I don't *think* I did anything wrong, considering he was the one who possessed me, but I still feel really bad about it.

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I think people take the wrong lesson out of "all LLMs are actually trying to do is predict the next token". It's not that we're failing to create a dizzyingly complex artificial world model capable of some level of reasoning and inference, it's that we're failing to find a way to interact with that core system once it exists that isn't filtered through the medium of the silly word games that are the only way we know how to grow these things.

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im probably about to say something kinda ableist but surely someone in a wheelchair can compeete in the non paralympics olympics. I can imagibe other disabilities like parkinsons or whatever where you would need to have your own cathegory of competition, but wheelchair specifically?

I really dig the official Paralympics logo for the shooting competitions

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Omggggg just started watching foreign films! Starting off with what's supposedly really big over there. So far, these marvel films are really interesting. I wonder if all American media is like this... Really seems heavy handed on the industrial war complex and maintenance of the status quo but that's just their culture. I wonder if there are any big actors in these movies. Haven't heard of any of them. Watching and learning

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Lately I've been thinking that I could be pretty good standup comedian. I've got the stage presence, the observational skills, the patter. I've got the contempt. The frothing, bile-flecked disdain for the travesty of the human animal and all its projects. The withering, red-hazed lens of deconstructive entropic judgement, the scrutiny of which no articulable concept survives. I'm good at establishing a rapport with an audience. I would be a pretty good standup comedian

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So it turns out I actually have to build the life I want to live

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(reclining on chaise lounge) it's really the most extraordinary thing! a camera hidden in the wall of my bedroom, appearing on the very same day i got that strange letter advising me to "let it hang". but... only you and i have access to that bedroom, chaserly old boy

MY DUSTY OLD BUTLER, CHASERLY: quite the conundrum indeed, sir. i mean them

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@fipindustries has an excellent cat named Phobos

He's incredibly cuddly and playful and bitey I love him

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The most brillliant minds of our generation have come up with yet another banger

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how we feeling intermissionists

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Ive been to many places i would call paradise.

Chief amongst them: your mom

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do you think people should take yudkowsky more seriously? I don't think I've seen much serious rebuttals of his arguments (other than some posts on lesswrong). Usually people just use ad hominems like "look, this guy is peter thiel's baby" or "this guy is a nutbag with huge personality cult around him"

i do think that people should bring better arguments to why his concern over AI is wrong beyond arguments that ammount to "sounds stupid and he is a conman".

Beyond that i almost kind of want him to remain a relatively niche figure, id hate it if suddenly the new york times or whatever started making articles about him and he became like a prominent media figure, with all the downsides that involves. I dont think he would respond very well to it

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the purpose of a sandwich is what it does

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Kinda wish I wasn't feeling more and more vindicated every day about calling it from the start that treating the AI issue like a moral crusade where you have like a moral obligation to prioritize signalling and reaffirming your hatred of generative AI at any possible chance would lead to a lot of ostensibly "progressive" people uncritically parroting extremely reactionary rhetoric.