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The Programmers’ Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy

[Sweet Meteor O'Death @smod4real]

To young lawyers out there, if you ever want the most conscise, accurate, and well-written summary of a legal principle just search for references to that principle among opinions authored by Posner. He was a legend of legal writing and philosophy.

[Xenocrypt @xenocryptsite]

I think it's under-discussed how giving Democrats a trifecta in 2020 didn't end up tarring Trump with The Loser's Stink but somehow ended up deepening his control of the GOP.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

first day at standing school

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HUANG HIM HIGH

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Note how the biased press corps is not talking about any of the literally thousands of Nvidia employees the CEO was *not* romantically involved with

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@wormfingers @phasewalk1 @dmartkc It is a very fat salary

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A real risk that within 25 years, California beaches may become swimmable

[Daniel Swain @Weather_West]

Water temperatures along California coast continue to warm & have now reached genuinely *astonishing* levels. At the Farallon Islands--usually the epicenter of NorCal's infamously frigid upwelling zone--temps now exceed 66F, shattering all records for this late in calendar year.

[deadprogrammer @deadprogrammer]

this 100 million dollar project resulted in a nobel prize. the iss cost 150 billion, did not produce any nobel-worthy research, but, but, hear me out, they gave bohr's nobel prize medal a ride to space for some reason. well, to the lower earth orbit.

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@john_mcguirk I mean, they certainly got him to stop.

[Eastern Bloc Visuals @eastblocvisuals]

Kosmos Cinema, Katowice, 1970s.

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@phasewalk1 @dmartkc Non-profit CEOs in this space draw fat salaries

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I write Pinboard directly in Lean, to save the work of formally verifying it

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@cournape For sure. Like a lot of people, I am stunned at the unreasonable effectiveness of training on huge datasets in particular. But I think the bulk of that talk holds up well, especially the alchemy metaphor and the notion that AI builders are cosplaying their worst nightmares.

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This is a good question and a worrying one. There are a lot of people in the AI cult with a sincere belief that the end of the world is nigh, and basically any action is justified to forestall it. Whatever the merits of it, the belief is real and could lead to some dark outcomes

[Joe Bernstein @Bernstein]

I don’t mean this glibly, but 100% seriously as a theory of mind question. If these people believe this to be true, why aren’t they doing more to stop it than writing X posts? Aren’t they morally obligated to try to destroy the infrastructure?

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@frances__lorenz No problem, it proves your bona fides!

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@tarwatirno @frances__lorenz That makes it vastly funnier, thank you!

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@frances__lorenz I was just making fun of EA

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Always remember that there is no IQ cap on stupid

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@joshu It would just jazz-scat about fruit