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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.

The 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?

No, it’s “re” like the subject of an email. “Re: diculous”

30 years ago my music teacher told me that in Chinese-language singing it’s the consonants that are sustained.

The problem is that you’re using Windows 95.

Nice try, Javert.

Are there examples of censorship or prior restraint you’d like to highlight?

What, never?

It may be possible…

It may not be necessary…

But not small ones.

A&W

“Make out” makes out so many things.

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.