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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Off the top of my head:

"Quinn entered the dark and cold forest. His knife was dripping blood. He was whistling, off-key."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

The prose equivalent of increasing the font size.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This reminded me, tangentially, of how there used to be two bookstores in Cambridge, MA that both offered in-house print-on-demand. But apparently the machines were hard to maintain, and when the manufacturer went out of business, there was no way to keep them going. I'd used them for some projects, like making my own copies of my PhD thesis. For my most recent effort, a lightly revised edition of Calculus Made Easy, I just went with Lulu.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

I suspect that for every subject that Yud has bloviated about, one is better served by reading the original author that Yud is either paraphrasing badly (e.g., Jaynes) or lazily dismissing with third-hand hearsay (e.g., Bohr).

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The escape goat is the goat that is released by pressing the ESC key. It solves the problem of a frozen computer by eating the computer.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Free advice from a stranger on the Internet: Don't let the assholes ruin your fun! If you want to try writing 50,000 words for the sake of having written 50,000 words, go for it. And I mean that quite sincerely!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Thinking back to when "the original Yudkowsky" needs a content warning for sexual assault.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've definitely seen that kind of thing happen with a Mastodon instance hosted in Germany.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (13 children)

Yud today:

Read the original Yudkowsky. Please. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You thought water was great, but have you tried H~2~O~2~?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (6 children)

ChatGPT was a significant help in writing this book, serving as a creative muse [...] and for refining my understanding of technical topics that are likely to be well represented in its corpus.

Nate Silver

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