Mardoniush

I played Elden Ring with kB/m with no issue and suck with controllers. Is it still playable? Should I try some kind of unholy HOMAS control?

Also I've made about 1 successful party in the whole of Elden ring despite hours of trying. Is sekiro parrying easier?

The Vatican, which is deliberately a gerontocracy, won't even let you vote for the Pope if you're over 80, and actual positions of influence are generally much younger. The USA has 20 members over 80.

Also it's good to remember yet again that every single leader of the Soviet Union was younger than Trump when they died (excepting Gorby because he sucks and thus Satan protected him)

Banana Republic

Banana People's Republic

It's spelt New SStealand in Maoist Standard English

They're probably the best of the Anglo settler-colonial nations (mostly due to great heroism on the part of the Maori and their allies over centuries). The language is an official language, all children are taught Maori culture (haphazardly) in schools, and the language has undergone a massive revival. The economic situation is slowly improving. Most Pakeha (White New Zealanders) would probably confess to a modest pride in the successes that have been made. Which may be somewhat unearned but is a start.

Which is to say the situation is utterly horrific and inexcusable and any of these modest gains are constantly at risk from the right wing. The ACT (formally the "Association of citizens and taxpayers" which is as fash as it sounds.) could be described as if Peter Thiel had a political party, and the centre right Nationals are only slightly more hinged than the Australian party of the same name. The treaty of Waitangi is barely a treaty and what there is is horribly unequal, but ferocious defence of it is the foundation of Maori rights.

The chuds here know what they are doing, but the problem they have is that every schoolchild has been taught to view the treaty as something good, either the centre right vision as an unambiguous union of two peoples or the centre left vision of an ambiguous bulwark against further exploitation. The NZ population is overwhelmingly against modification of the treaty and of those that are, they want a stronger treaty, not a weaker one .

But what are my trans friends supposed to do with all these excuses for the terror?

Instructions unclear, wishing I had an angel.

I'm pretty pro religion for Hexbear and think people should convert to whatever faith they find meaningful and true, so I want to really emphasise that modern Messianism is an apocalyptic death cult. (usually, I'm sure there are branches who are normal about it and just want to convert to Christianity while remaining a Jewish identity, I've just not met them)

I'm sure the userbase is reacting calmly to this ban. No I am not going to check.

Never quit. Make them Fire you

US version of Guy Fawkes is gonna be peak kino.

EDIT: didn't read that this was a non Big Yud post, so sorry, but...you can't really talk about AI safety in the general sense without him.( He dominated the field for 20 years, long before his dumb rationalist cult. Every single alignment guy is either using his assumptions or deliberately departing from them.)

I'm going to talk about the hard AI problem of rogue AI, not the obviously more pressing one of AI being used for bad things, because that can't be stopped

So, Big Yud is mad and constantly full of nuclear Bay Area brainworm takes. but some of his arguments against alignment make sense. At least enough to engage with them and try to solve them, but bombing data centres et al is dumb and won't solve the issue since most code is already so inefficient.

AI is not going to go FOOM in the way he suggested, basically because LLMs exist, which he thought were impossible as part of his arguments. He never considered we would have time to practice alignment with extremely limited AI at near human levels. And that's kicked the core of his doom argument away.

I think UlyssesT and I once agreed that he is the dumbest smart guy alive and will probably become leftist after trying and failing at every tech nerd principal. If someone could keep him the hell away from the Bay Area he might normalise and stop writing weird shit.

For what it's worth he also thinks Transformers have no chance at AGI, at least alone. And his thoughts on the dumb approaches used by AI companies are sound. But he is arguing in good faith and has probably thought about this more than anyone else. (Nobody even in the Yud cult except for a few weirdos ever took Roko's Basilisk seriously. Yud deleted the post mostly because he saw that people would go weird about it, a rare example of him being exactly correct.)

As for everyone else...Altman doesn't care and is using it for market capture. Anthropic probably does care but is more or less forced down the same path of ineffective safety that captures the market.

Ilya definitely cares but for all the wrong reasons, he's massively pro Israel so he'll never achieve a consistently aligned AI anyway, but I'd not want him working on this stuff.

But ultimately hard alignment is a secondary concern against dumb corporate HR managers trying to AI the compliance team.