@GKunstwerk @ratlimit Source? every math class I've ever taken has said that positive and non-negative are two different sets because only non-negative contains zero.
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@RyanFre46274526 @ratlimit Positive is actually more ambiguous because there's a whole debate over whether zero is a positive number that would cause additional smartassery. Non-zero is precise
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33% of respondents forgot what we are. Even excluding us, you still have to account for ducks and dolphins. They know what they did...
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“A non-zero number of animals have done something morally wrong.”
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@ratlimit @GKunstwerk It wouldn't have been too much, but also just say positive instead of non-zero then.
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@GKunstwerk I was gonna put “non-human animals” but two nons in one sentence felt like a bit much
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@sbjosh02 @atteonthephone 100%, but there's also a similar problem when you resolve a market in a way contrary to how most people interpreted the rules. and canceling the bet and refunding everyone won't solve the problem either. no matter what people will be upset, because the rules weren't clear.
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@RyanFre46274526 @atteonthephone i think there’s a pretty clear problem when you don’t resolve markets how the rules are actually written lol
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Today in Polymarket fuckups - There is a dispute in the Enhanced Games market. The "YES" side is arguing that the number of world records broken at the Enhanced Games "equals or exceeds" zero. The "NO" side is arguing: "come on, bro". Both arguments have their merit.
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@sbjosh02 @atteonthephone ok, but if that was the case 0 should be sold at 100% (or really shouldn't even be a market), the fact it's at 18% clearly indicates most people read the rules as they were intended to be written rather than the way the rules were actually written.
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@atteonthephone i dont understand the issue here. these rules arent unclear at all. if there was 3 records broken youre telling me it makes sense for 1, 2, and 3 to resolve to yes but not 0?? what is the argument for that??
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@johnmbridge_ @Benthamsbulldog What reason do you think she would give for why she would believe that?
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@Benthamsbulldog FWIW, I think she’d say something like “climate change is an intersectional issue, so you have to focus on other issues, too” (i.e. to solve climate change, you have to solve racism, sexism, colonialism, ableism, etc).
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I think Greta Thunberg's worldview is a bit silly, in that she believes that climate change will kill Earth but decided to shift her activism to other issues.
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@IsaacKing314 how many months do you think it will be until they are faster than you?
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It really weirds me out that I can now meaningfully race computer programs. There are complex tasks that a computer can do about equally well as me, but I can do them faster.
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@mad2live_ @EigenGender you realize how this metaphor just doesn't work at all right?
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@EigenGender I saw a post saying that Meta is making workers solve problems in AI to eventually fire them! And how that was evil.
Like yes, when I hire a plumber, I'm hiring him so his job can be deleted (for me). But it isn’t like I am stopping him from ever working again.
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it’s very funny to see highly compensated meta engineers be folded into the leftist omnicause. like many of these workers were in fact making more than 440k!
Fuck You I Quit@fuckyouiquit
Meta will layoff 8000 of its workforce starting tomorrow morning. Their net income over the last 12 months was $70,587,000,000. They could give every single one of their 79,000 workers a $440,000 bonus and still sock away over $35,827,000,000 in pure profit.
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@idkwahatimdoing a lot of chocolate has ground up bugs in it.
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@ZWildwood I'm a meat-eater but this argument is so fucking dumb, you can say that two different things are both bad without saying that they are equally bad, why do so many people pretend not to get this?
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This doesn't make any sense unless you consider the forms of normalized cruelty similar enough in severity, quality, and prominence for a comparison to illustrate something
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@__MarieTherese_ She makes 0 claims about the relative morality of enslaving someone vs. eating meat. Feel free to argue against the claim “One’s participation in normalized cruelty in 2026 predicts whether they would have participated in a cruelty normalized to them in 18XX”, if you like.
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@criticofpolecon I don't see the contradiction? yes, you want to be spending more than you are making, but you don't want to be wasting money either, if he was able to balance the budget without cutting any services, because all the debt was from corruption, that is a huge win, no?
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The content of Mamdani's budget obviously matters, but I'm sorry it's insane to see people just accept the praise of balanced budgets when DECADES of activism has been spent on arguing AGAINST that. It's really sad to see honestly how much people just wanna win.
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@girlglock_ yeah, easy to explain, it's because microsoft sucks, switch to linux.
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Can someone explain to me why on windows 10/11 when I highlight something and ctrl+c it there is a 1 in 100 chance it won't copy
筒井.xls@エクセル関数擬人化本著者@Tsutsui0524
Cは連打します。 コピーできてないかもしれないので。
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@Coinulaire @RadishHarmers Radish harmers is an anagram of sridhar ramesh
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@RadishHarmers @RyanFre46274526 Also your X "handle" refers to radishes.
Why not refer to Turnips instead, in homage to Hevace Eveeloj (and the original Samuel Langhorne Clemens).
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I'm tired of every fucking thing I post, regardless of topic, getting a bunch of replies about me being Indian. It wasn't like this before. It's pissing me off at the world. I'm going to do something to the world.
Sridhar Ramesh@RadishHarmers
Every tweet in my Drafts from the past several years is me saying something like "Ok. I get it. I'm Indian", and then deciding not to post it.
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At writing club we coined the term 'Markovian literature' for a piece of writing where each new sentence is written only with knowledge of the preceding one. I'd love to try it with you—comment if you'll contribute a sentence and I'll message you what you're continuing from!
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@IsaacKing314 trying to preserve personality seems like where you are going wrong, try the thought experiment again without preserving personality.
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Many will argue "no that's not the point, it's obvious what we *mean*", but... is it? I've tried to work out a definition of the intended question that somehow preserves personality except for the one trait you want to know about, but it always seems like begging the question.
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The "if you were born in [other circumstance]" arguments are interesting because the whole point of this thought experiment is that nurture is the independent variable. Therefore the only thing left to define "you" is nature. But I suspect most supporters of the experiment's validity would not endorse this claim in other contexts.
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@MatthewJBar even if you had god like intelligence, how would you cause >$300B in losses from a single attack? you'd have to take down amazon's whole domain for a full 6 months or something.
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I don't think Claude Mythos is just marketing hype. It's clearly a flagship model, and coding ability has improved a lot this past year.
But I highly doubt we're on the brink of a cyber catastrophe, e.g., >$300B in losses from a single attack or campaign within a year.
Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
Not a good day for team "Claude Mythos is just marketing hype."
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@joseph_h_garvin I'm not a biologist either, but ok, I see your point. Still though, I don't think either was really doing "alignment" on the other, they likely both had the "goal" of replicating, and could achieve both of their goals better by working together.
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@RyanFre46274526 I'm not a biologist so it's hard for me to do more than hand wave here, and I'm not sure anyone knows the evolutionary history in enough detail, but I assume at the time we went from 1 cell to 2 that both were pretty capable still and slowly lost redundant functionality.
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What I really want to know is: how did multicellular life solve the alignment problem? Alternatively, why did it not have to solve it?
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@joseph_h_garvin a better question would be like, a parent and a child are both agents, how does the parent align the child to their values, or a roomba is a simple agent how did we align roombas to human values. neither of which have much to do with advanced ai though.
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@joseph_h_garvin you only have an agent when you have multiple brain cells working together, with new connections between brain cells being able form and with the brain cells being hooked up to sensors like eyes or ears and actuators like muscles.
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