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That last line needs a lot of workshopping. A guillotine with instructions on the bottom of the blade conforms to your request.

“ believe that AI could cure most major diseases in the next 5–10 years,”

I do not have the least bit of idea how disease works but I am sure the hammer I am working on will nail it all.

If your famously atemporal agents can solve disease, why would it happen over a timeline? Wouldn’t they just figure it out and then … well at that point either tell us or, given the attacks on ruby gems, et al we have seen from agents with “misconfigured” goals, they’d still tell us how to cure the pox they invented, right?

“ I have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of human life” there you go. What if an utter idiot had done and said that? First, is it impossible to believe an idiot who didn’t need to work to live might do such a thing? If not, is it impossible to believe they would wind up here, barfing their externalities onto us?

I think it gets easier if you stop conflating getting investment with having a goddamn clue or a moral backbone.

Occam’s Razor for this dude, Sam Altman, or anyone else: if I said, “some moron on a a street corner just said …” would that change your take on the words? Because I think a lot of what we are hearing is a bunch of people who never ever had to deal with a single consequence all of a sudden worry there might be one coming. Except they’re so dim they can’t tell a bad bump from a hard crash.

I have a new theory as of this moment.

Elon Musk, Paul Graham, Steve Yegge and now, sadly John Carmack. Your average hacker scoffs at the idea of religion or faith, but somehow is comfortable with complete unquestioning fealty to whichever person who did something interesting with technology in the past and made enough money to afford drugs you don’t get arrested for and then they started prophesying.

Before you stone me, remember every prophet was downvoted in their own forum.

Because someone profits from it. If your man had truly embraced Zen after, y’know, becoming wealthy enough to never need anything, it feels like freedom from want would have come pretty easy. Instead we have to find our examples in poor people after they die.

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I feel like you’re half right? Daughters in law and passers by don’t feel Norman French. Daughter is definitely from middle German, yeah? And I am wondering about the professors example because the whole point is the plural only happens on the first word.

That said, I so want to be a part of the last group.

Tom's response: "Sounds good, please don't take offense at me adding https://github.com/furkan-bayrak/lg-tv-blocklist to the PiHole. Can never be too safe, right?"

> There's literally zero reason for LG to be building an advertising profile on me because I was foolish enough to buy one of their TVs.

I feel like the world is bossed by people who read (well, ok listened to a 5 minute summary on a grindlife podcast at 1.5x speed) about the Trojan Horse and thought they smelled a business opporunity.

Yeah, the whole rise of the web has had that unfortunate side effect, but no one had treated it like a positive until now. Hell, Meta is showing off how to use their AI to jam up phone lines and bother call centers without having to spend time on the phone!

It’s unfortunate he seems to have gone around the bend, because there is so much that happens in our current unreality that reminds me of Mike Baron’s Nexus comic from the 80s. The “Trade War” storyline has the two competing marketplaces, run by Vooper and the other by a robot named Honest Crocus, get into an audio advertising war so all-consuming it winds up drowning out 911 calls and coming out of the plumbing when you’re in the toilet. Now we finally have the tools, we are going to make that happen along with a million other bad ideas.

I’m sorry that definitely happened to you. Can you tell us more?

I would find this more believable if you had one of your assistants post this.

There was an Irish entrepreneur with ideas in this space. Gil O’Tyne was his name IIRC.

Oh, Anthropic beat you to the bioweapon fearmongering by almost a week.

It’s because it’s from the French (if you say the plural with a French accent, it all makes sense). There are a handful of other cases in English, though none spring to mind this morning.

I’m excited by the library too, but the post was so Claude I had to stop. Actual docs are at https://wrapture.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

I don’t think the author swallowed anything. My read is the author fundamentally doesn’t care what story the creator tells themself to justify doing something pointless that annoys others.

We’ve essentially reduced the cost of being a prick to zero.

Man, if you ever start reading books instead of spouting shit online, it is going to get weird.

Signed up to simp for Enoch Powell? I’ll grant you that’s original.

Why be so specific? Speaking as a Tom Clancy who read the first four or five.

Hmm, I feel like I have a pretty decent … well, not production-ready, but it’s all in Ansible and I did have to rebuild it from that once, which ironed out most of the bugs in that and everything gets built according to the templates I have for Docker and non Docker setups.

Plus I have “itguy” now, a CLI that can deploy everything, check on status and show me logs. And it’s available via Slack and as an Alfred workflow. So yeah, I think that’s pretty close to production ready.

That smells like "show don't tell", but who knows.

I resent the implication. Or appreciate it. Whichever you prefer.

Next step: set up a scheduled job to read the logs to find any issues before they bite.

Are they? I feel like the real difference is an insistence on actually enforcing them. There were some really strong standards at the time of IE5, it was just the wild west in terms of what got built. And then you had Tantek Çelik quietly building all of them in IE5 on the Mac. Just a question of where to look.

May just be me being a romantic. Work shut off access to non-Chrome browsers an took away Incognito Mode. Which is fun for QA work.

I mean, that’s like your opinion man.

Yeah and we wish they would stop. Because solutions like this are something the system optimizes for.

Yeah, I know. What I’m suggesting is don’t.

I feel like robots that could do this with 100% accuracy might shine too bright a light on how well recycling currently works. And I say that as a proponent of the three Rs.