Melllvar

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

If you enjoy Kingdom of Loathing then see also West of Loathing and Shadows Over Loathing

One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.

-Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, 1792

Or, put in modern terms: There is no such thing as an innocent billionaire.

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These are the same Senators who argued ex-presidents can’t be impeached.

The state government isn’t involved with collecting federal taxes, so how could this be done?

Some have stopped working, like SteamLink, but others still work. I know it’s just a matter of time.