Eric Boyd

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bent my wookie

he/him/they/just don't call me late for dinner

[Eric Boyd @efnord]

Censored! On a free speech network!

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@NeolithicSheep Ideally, a triple fuel generator that can run on propane, correctly and safely installed with a transfer switch.

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@delaneykingrox @shad3rman The Waste Lands isn't, like, a GREAT book, but it's top-5 for books that make me want to go play D&D with a great DM.

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@Notorious_RSG

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@AbyssalRook @Amsteffydam @sam_d_1995 Rental cars exist?

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@nimblebyte @peter_onlife @GergelyOrosz That makes sense! I'm worried about where the state of the art is re: adversarial AI. This doesn't bode well: https://t.co/GyGRqu8wTR

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@nimblebyte @peter_onlife @GergelyOrosz That's very worrying! GPT-3 would accomplish that goal admirably. And I don't think you could prove that AI 2 was in fact lying about AI 1, versus a claim that it was doing its absolute best to provide a good answer; that will often be a non-falsifiable claim.

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@speedprior @arxivabs @nimblebyte @peter_onlife @GergelyOrosz Yeah, if it can't touch "why?" then it's really no good in my book. It seems safer to treat AI as a black-box, not run the risk of tricking yourself into thinking you comprehend how it's making decisions.

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@conjurial @BenjaminDanard @stephenjudkins There is no free parking! Someone pays for it, in every case. Your initial argument framed the demand for subsidized parking as legitimate and understandable, when it's really pure greed and laziness.

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@arxivabs @speedprior @nimblebyte @peter_onlife @GergelyOrosz That's all "predicting what might happen based on prior events" not "how and why does this AI make decisions?"

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@KuiperBelt15 @encarnalization @hollandpegin You're basically marketing a male-to-male extension cord as "Great for Christmas lights mishaps!" not "this thing is ONLY FOR OFF-GRID APPLICATIONS."

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@KuiperBelt15 @encarnalization @hollandpegin A Procrustean, harmful tool. Polite pro-Nazi speech is an absolute and literal danger to many people I love, in a way that simply isn't true for vitriolic antifascist rhetoric. Your tool conflates the two. This is actively making the world worse, and you should take it down.

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@adegroot88 @RadioRodThorson @MattHintz3 That's not how this worked in New Zealand: https://t.co/m3qVdBP4LQ

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@nimblebyte @peter_onlife @GergelyOrosz How do we distinguish this from a current inscrutable AI with a GPT-3 style retroactive excuse-writing engine attached? Explanations aren't any good if they're deliberate falsehoods.

[Eric Boyd @efnord]

@KuiperBelt15 @encarnalization @hollandpegin A Procrustean, harmful tool. Polite pro-Nazi speech is an absolute and literal danger to many people I love, in a way that simply isn't true for vitriolic antifascist rhetoric. Your tool conflates the two. This is actively making the world worse, and you should take it down.

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@BluntsxBacon @AlasdairC @sam_d_1995 Why should parking be "free" in NYC? Why do you want extra money taken from you in taxes to pay for that space, even if you decide not to have a car? Should people without cars be forced to subsidize those who do, or should that be optional?

[sam @sam_d_1995]

New York City has approximately 3 million parking spots, and 97% of them are free parking.

A standard parking spot is 180 square feet. The average price per square foot of land in New York is ~$1000.

New York City has an invisible $500 BILLION car subsidy.

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@conjurial @BenjaminDanard @stephenjudkins Yes, you have to pay to park. No one without an ADA permit should be parking for free. Wherever you see "free" parking, that just means non-drivers are being asked to pay for that parking.

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@JenKatWrites Cats can have a little bagel, as a treat: https://t.co/x76rnUo9Wr

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@rahaeli https://t.co/LzeT4z9S2U