blakestacey

Our final defenses are more diffuse, working at a level of norms and attitudes. Stigmatization is a powerful force, and disgust and shame are among our greatest tools. Put plainly, you should feel bad for using AI.

On top of everything else, "the father of quantum computing" is such lazy writing. People were thinking about it before Deutsch, going back at least to Paul Benioff in 1979. Charlie Bennett and Giles Brassard's proposal for quantum key distribution predates Deutsch's quantum Turing machine... No one person should be called "the father of" a subject that had so many crucial contributors in such a short period of time.

Also, chalk up another win for the "billionaires want you to think they are physicists" hypothesis. It's perhaps not as dependable as pedocon theory, but it's putting in a strong showing.

🎶 I would sire a gross of kids / and I would sire a whole gross more / just to be the man who dropped full two gross kids in baskets at your door 🎶

This is the first time that I have viscerally rejected reading the epigrammatic quotes at the top of a TV Tropes page. Like, it's TV Tropes, and I just closed the tab. Dear sweet and crunchy lord.

CHOTINER: Mr Yudkowsky, it says here 20% of your research budget went to “harry potter”. Care to explain?

https://bsky.app/profile/jpeg40k.bsky.social/post/3lzrvedbfe22o

I am Jack's bone-weary sigh.

Bethany Brookshire:

Some people think ChatGPT has a place writing things like news briefs, stuff written to a specific style and tone and, y'know, kinda boring.

So Science did a study.

ChatGPT failed.

Why? It got stuff wrong. "Also, extensive editing for hyperbole was needed." https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/can-chatgpt-help-science-writers

"I have a particular set of skills. Mostly 20,000-word blog posts."

If you use physical force to stop me however, I will make it a priority to ensure you regret doing this when you are on your deathbed. You have probably never met an enemy as intelligent, creative and willing to play the decade-long game as I am.

"When you were partying, I studied the blade."

Math competitions need to start assigning problems that require counting the letters in fruit names.

(sees YouTube video)

I ain't [watchin] all that

I'm happy for u tho

Or sorry that happened

I happened to learn recently that that's probably not from Keynes:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/09/remain-solvent/