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Melllvar
Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!
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E099: PROGRAMMER IS OVERLY POLITE
Start saving for old age now. It might seem like a long way off, and you might not have much money right now to begin with, but being young and poor is way better than being old and poor.
0·22 days agoMan it sure is crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.
0·1 month agoI got a contact sugar high just from clicking that link.
2·1 month agoThe 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?
The problem is that you’re using Windows 95.
Are there examples of censorship or prior restraint you’d like to highlight?
161·4 months agoThere is no such thing as an innocent billionaire.
It may be possible…
It may not be necessary…
A Nintendo64 with several game cartridges. It’s a little flaky, but it still works for the most part.
Californian. No.
It wouldn’t solve any problems that can’t be solved by other means, and it would create new problems that we haven’t had to worry about before. It’d be a net loss for everyone involved.
Try HTTrack: https://www.httrack.com/
Terrible technique. Everyone knows it’s left hands only.
UI elements that expand and cover up other UI elements when you mouse over them.
“Flat” color schemes where you can’t even tell where one UI element ends and the other begins.
Infinite scroll instead of pagination.
He’ll have to show us his Earth certificate, though.
Some species of ants invade neighboring colonies and carry away larva to work as slaves.
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.