It's wild. This thing running on computers, abstracted dozens of layers upwards, can do things a computer can, but a couple hundred million times slower.
The next stage of transportation isn't faster, greener, more efficient, more afrordable, or more pleasant cars, buses, trains, or planes; it's crawling.
I did five eyerolls. Then I got to the ten fucking herz and realized either I or the writer had misunderstood what they wanted to express.
AKCHUALLY these are muggle bookshelves
I didn't suffer through all these chapters wishing for the payoff that never lived just to let Dr. Verres get slandered with a possession worth being interested in.
Persecution complex
That's why hpmor was only 660000 words?
If you think you can point to an unnecessary sentence within it, go ahead and try. Having a long story isn't the same fundamental kind of issue as having an extra sentence.
How about the second sentence^1^?
Every inch of wall space is covered by a bookcase. Each bookcase has six shelves, going almost to the ceiling. Some bookshelves are stacked to the brim with hardback books: science, maths, history, and everything else. Other shelves have two layers of paperback science fiction, with the back layer of books propped up on old tissue boxes or lengths of wood, so that you can see the back layer of books above the books in front. And it still isn't enough. Books are overflowing onto the tables and the sofas and making little heaps under the windows.
Each bookcase has six shelves, going almost to the ceiling.
The exact number of shelves is superfluous for the point being made, as is specifying that the bookshelves almost go to the ceiling. We get it, there's a lot of books. Enough books to contain even the longest Yud tweets.
[1]: Excluding a full page long spiel of self-promotion, metatext and a paragraph of what I assume is supposed to be foreshadowing for spooky things to come.
Joking, but only after the bluechecks are done writing their circlejerk fanfic and someone ratios him.
It's got the cadence of a joke and I guess the humor is supposed to be him being self aware of how contrived the plan is. But couldn't you just ask the magically persuasive AI to write a letter to VISA telling them to unblock AI doctors? I dunno why every problem needs to be solved like soft modding a PS2.
Or maybe it's supposed to be a joke on credit card companies who refuse to serve AI doctors? Owning VISA by paying not only the doctor's fee you'd have paid anyway, but also for an AI doctor and oration instructor in cryptocurrency.
Dude just make your AI god-king decriminalize drugs and you can do all the amphetamines you like.
realistically, the attendees are likely not going to fully recover their eyesight.
Seems inappropriate to laugh about this. People spending a fortune on a worthless ugly monkey png deserve ridicule, but not permanent eye damage just because they went to a party with their fellow marks.
Being a LessWrong hater around here doesn't feel like a hobby worth setting up a whole event for, but if any of you regulars happen around western Finland I can offer a pint in exchange for a basilisk joke.
Good point, from the very start RISC was developed with government funding in the people's republic of Berkeley.
Almost forgot it was a commie ISA to begin with. Should have banned it ages ago.
Sure, but even giving him the benefit of doubt that this was actually a botched attenpt at a joke, that's not exactly flattering is it?
shuf -n 100 /usr/share/dict/wordsI would have expected JS standard library to contain something along the lines of
random.samplebut apparently not. A similar thing exists in something calledunderscore.jsand I gotta say it's incredibly in-character for JavaScript to outsource incredibly common utility functions to a module called "_".Language bashing aside, there's something to enjoy about these credulous articles proclaiming AI superiority. It's not the writing itself, but the self-esteem boost regarding my own skills. I have little trouble doing these junior dev whiteboard interview exercises without LLM help, guess that's pretty impressive after all!