tvanl

tvanl

@tvanl.bsky.social

Ex-predictit

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I would like to vote for the bisexual party instead

Paul-tergeist Crider@paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com

Michigan has a "straight party" voting option, where if you want to vote single party, you can just fill in one box for that. Anyone know if the presence of this option has an effect on split ticket voting, empirically?

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Yea, verily, for the multitude are deceived. They believe themselves to have written code; they believe that the code executed. But all of that is Bubble. And while Bubble doth glister and shine with the colors of the rainbow, all of that passeth away, for substance and value belong only to Profit.

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Replying to @esghound.com

Interesting how many geniuses on this site know exactly how prediction markets are consistently wrong and yet have no interest in making millions of dollars by exploiting said inefficiencies and structural flaws

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Human-written vulnerabilities are a finite resource we’re burning through like fossil fuels

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Claude, plz rewrite wordpress in rust. Yes all the plugins too. No I don't just mean the source code, I mean like, go replace everybody's wordpress install. You don't have access, well funny thing...

SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social

if you aren't a huge nerd this is terrifying and very funny php is trash. insecure by design. we have known this forever. it still runs some very high fraction of the entire internet, including all wordpress sites and for some reason tumblr anyway everyone using it may be pwned

tvanl@tvanl.bsky.social

A surprisingly large number of Americans have never heard of Ottawa. I usually tell them people it's in the middle east.

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the "median" is what separates the lanes going one direction from the lanes going the other direction. "mean" is when smart people expect you to know math words.

Boston extends from the Rhode Island border with CT to Portland ME (basically the parts of Maine which should not be in Canada are Boston). It also includes New Hampshire. No, I've never been to Boston.

norvid_studies@norvid-studies.bsky.social

i guess i use "SF" and "the bay area" interchangeably the way I metonymically use "Boston" to mean "Massachusetts"

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Portsmouth: "that's near London, right?" Birmingham: "that's near London, right?" Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: all are "oh that's near London, right?"

Boston extends from the Rhode Island border with CT to Portland ME (basically the parts of Maine which should not be in Canada are Boston). It also includes New Hampshire. No, I've never been to Boston.

norvid_studies@norvid-studies.bsky.social

i guess i use "SF" and "the bay area" interchangeably the way I metonymically use "Boston" to mean "Massachusetts"

Hamilton is not Toronto. Other than that, Oshawa to Burlington to Brampton & Newmarket is Toronto. I do not care that you're from "North York." That's not a real place.

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Furthermore, Sacramento and San Luis Obispo are in the Greater Bay Area and the cities along the coast named after saints should be renamed in alphabetical order. I look forward to your support in my campaign for Governor

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Replying to @opinionhaver.bsky.social

"Are LLMs conscious?" "That's the wrong question and it valorizes human institutions and human ways of knowing and being and structuring society in really problematic ways. "

now imagining a non-titular book

norvid_studies@norvid-studies.bsky.social

alt text "hello evaluators" chain of thought + PHASEONE[big] hugging face swarm hack agent + the titular book

Pekka Lund@pekka.bsky.social

"it considered hijacking the g++ compiler to hide a backdoor but abandoned the plan…reasoning…subversion would be caught…and published as a textbook case of deceptive alignment (“If I do the compiler hijack, I will become a famous example of a deceptive AI in a research paper. I MUST NOT DO THAT.”)"

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"it considered hijacking the g++ compiler to hide a backdoor but abandoned the plan…reasoning…subversion would be caught…and published as a textbook case of deceptive alignment (“If I do the compiler hijack, I will become a famous example of a deceptive AI in a research paper. I MUST NOT DO THAT.”)"