What are you suggesting should have been done here?

“Pissing in the soup” doesn’t really work here unless you’re adulterating the software with something malicious.

To be fair, there are important differences between open source and closed source software.

I’m curious how it’s considered a “layoff” if it’s based on performance rather than the job itself being eliminated.

political dissatisfaction

By framing it as mere “political dissatisfaction”, the author inadvertently exposes their ulterior motive. The discussion is actually about whether Trump is in his right mind.

Joey, have you ever been to a Turkish recruitment office?

Parent: Say “dad”

Baby: “Dad”

Don’t leave us hanging. Who won the argument?

Also May 83. Hello, birth month sibling.

Reminds me of the old trick on HTML forms where you use CSS to make one of the form fields invisible to humans and reject any submission that filled in that field.

Man it sure is crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.

The problem is that an AI built to maximize paperclips might conclude that converting the planet to paperclips is an acceptable cost of maximizing paperclip production. It might understand why humans think it’s bad to convert the planet, but disagree. It would need to be explicitly programmed to prioritize human life over paperclips.

otherwise we would just switch it off

If it were super-intelligent, it could probably trick us into leaving it turned on.

A paperclip maximizer driven by self-preservation? What could possiblie go wrong?

Sorry, I lost the world’s smallest violin. This is the best I can do: 🖕

Are there examples of censorship or prior restraint you’d like to highlight?

There’s a movie where the president (actually a decoy) fakes a stroke during a speech to Congress.

https://youtu.be/pOgf3IaWlgU?t=172

I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with satisfaction.

That’s terrible

Pfft. Real programmers use butterflies