“intelligent” people make the best marks, donchaknow

a fairly sizable chunk of everything, generally.

“we set up a pocket universe for our toy robot to run in, looped it a few billions times, and you wouldn’t believe what ways it found to fuck with the rules! we’re ever so shocked! :o” is a going staple in ML agent research for years now, these people are a parody upon themselves

remember that “agents in a physics sim” shit a few years ago (both early goog and openai, I think)? that strain of nonsense

also lol @ the pure Ronald Reagan energy of going “yep obviously drugs just make you murderously insane”

always think of this (which is just multiple kinds of amazing in the current day; that it keeps getting used as a sample in dance tracks is just even better)

literal brigading

hopefully this gets shut down hard at all the places they try to fuck with. we've already had 2 cases too many of jonringer this year

"setting HN on fire" is an unfortunate phrase that one might otherwise wholly be able to get behind

damn english and its imprecision!

(idly, didn't mean that aggressively. wrote it pre-coffee, but, yeah)

the Sneerclub, Whatever That Is:

• whisky tumbler
• 3 cubes of ice
• an unadvisably large amount of raspberry chocolate amarula poured in

sip or quaff as desired, while rereading that illustrious comment and staring in wonder that it was actually posted

https://awful.systems/post/1587716

I feel this post is unclear

can't just rush in with that kind of newfangled highfallutin' racism, amirite?! /s

Generic Postmodernist Theatrics

..is now canon