ulyssessword
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ulyssessword
7hr ago
Rhyming becomes a lot easier when you aren't picky about the details. For example (corrected to make it rhyme, somehow):
Cameron Whitcomb "Kingdom Of Fear"
I'll show you what you need to see and nothing more
At least I got the decency to shut the door
You said that you want all of me, but I know you're a liar
Every time I let you in, I start to hear them tire
In the middle of the night, in the back of my mind
Like a chill running down my neck
So I bite my tongue and lie in self-defense
Ask me how I've bin, I'll say I'm grey
But under my skin, I'm not okay
Honey, I've been scared to death, looking in the mere
Just another day in the kingdom of fear
Ask me how it go, I'll say I'm fine
But if you look clo, I ain't doing alrigh
Honey, I've been scared to death, wipe away the tear
Just another day in the kingdom of fear
The kingdom of fear
Maybe I've been building wall too high to cline
I hope you know it's not your fall, it's by design
I know I've been a lot of things, but I won't be your burden
I won't be that person that calls you when I'm hurden
In the middle of the night, in the back of my mind
Like a chill running down my neck
So I bite my tongue and lie in self-defense
[Chorus]
Oh, I've been hurting worse than bad
I need someone who's got my back
Oh, I've been hurting worse than bad
I need someone, but if you
[Chorus]
As far as I can tell, the *only two true pairs are right at the start, see/decency, and more/door. The other ten are just a bit off, but I didn't notice until one was pointed out to me.
ulyssessword
7hr ago
The top picture in this article suggests an awesome story. In reality, he used a gun.
ulyssessword
9hr ago
I was getting the garden key probably every 2nd or 3rd run...
That's a bit higher than I remember, but not too far off.
, and then when I incidentally got the other stuff I went for it.
Let's call it a 1/3 chance for the key and 1/3 for the rest, for a 1/9 chance of it being available in a given run. Running six theories at once (of the same difficulty and assuming independence) gives you (1 - 1/9) ^ 6 = 49.3% chance of a wasted run assuming sufficiently-good play, which feels about right. Add in a few missed opportunities and a run of bad luck, and I dropped the game.
(again to Testing123, just to emphasize: most people play fully through the part of the game most people natually and satisfiedly stop at, without had having an unfun problem about this)
Yeah, it's good up to Room 46.
ulyssessword
11hr ago
As a general thing you should be keeping a priority queue of theories and start each run flexibly, but also there are RNG mitigations that should eventually let you get just about whatever you want on most runs.
I was running about half a dozen theories by the time I quit, and had only managed to check (not progress or confirm) a couple of them in my last few runs. The problem with the coat check (and other mitigations, IIRC) is that they help you with one theory, and not always all that well. Using the above example, I could either save the garden key (a rare item), or combine and save the power hammer. That reduces the requirements to garden key/coat check/room placement, or to sledgehammer/metal detector/work shop/coat check/room placement, which still isn't that easy.
ulyssessword
11hr ago
Probably 15-20 hours to beat the part of the game that most people will stop at (having greatly enjoyed their time with it)
Absolutely. It's a great game until you're trying to get the sledgehammer, metal detector, garden key, workshop, AND a bit of luck on room placement (IIRC that was a real challenge I beat once...then my computer crashed and lost it and I couldn't repeat it).
ulyssessword
2d ago
datacenters are fragile and require constant inputs from outside that we can just cut off.
Same with humans. It didn't go so well when we tried to do that to Hitler because he had persuaded millions of people to help him in his goals.
I find AI-driven WWII-scale disasters completely plausible once AIs become more persuasive than politicians are (they passed the bar for redditors two years ago).
I also find it plausible that some AI will go off half-cocked and easily get put down by a military (or even just court orders and workers unplugging things). Based on what I've seen so far, we would do a patch-job like moving the battery backups offsite so they can be disconnected easily, rather than considering why an AI wanted to go to war, or if they might learn from that failure.
ulyssessword
3d ago
I think supporting a foreign government at war with America is perfectly fine grounds to deport someone.
I think so too. Too bad the last war the US has been involved in was WWII.
If you want to lean on the procedural fairness of the result, your have to actually follow the procedure first. If the government doesn't want to do their part and actually declare war, then they don't get wartime powers.
ulyssessword
4d ago
You can get much better odds on Kalshi. All you're "offering" is an opportunity for you to dutch-book and make free money (ignoring counterparty risks and work, of course).
ulyssessword
5d ago
Since reality is boring,
Was 2022 a one-time bump from COVID? I know it was well and truly done by then, but habits can take a long time to break.
ulyssessword
6d ago
I don't know if this is idiomatic in American English.
It's as American as baguettes or chow mein: definitely not native, but recognizable nonetheless.
ulyssessword
8d ago
In old English law, truth was an aggravating factor in libel because it makes the statements more damaging. Maybe it's time Belgium joined the 19th century.
ulyssessword
13d ago
I know. Things which "may well not be" crimes can A) match him to the description more exactly, or B) provide justification on their own, which is what I was pointing out.
If the detention were initiated based on his seeing the gun,
That was my assumption. He didn't mention the gun until after he initiated the detention, but it reads like he noticed it after the contact but before the detention.
ulyssessword
14d ago
If 20% of the population can be reasonably described as juvenile, and another 20% is wearing at least one article of black clothing, that description describes 4% of the population, making it a Level 1 description.
What fraction are carrying a (at the time only presumed) gun in their waistband? And at that point, can the cops ditch the description altogether and detain them regardless of any connection with a reported crime?
Unless "An officer steps in front of KC, blocking his path, and asks him what's in his waistband." is hiding a substantial gap between those events, I'd call it a reasonable detention.
ulyssessword
14d ago
Who wants to read female-protagonist urban fantasy by a guy named "Daniel"? An initialized name like "MLN Hanover" is much better.
I'm not sure it counts as a persona, given that he can be found out in literally one second of research.
ulyssessword
21d ago
That's obviously unknowable, but you can look at what newly-discovered physics has done to get an idea. Going backwards through Nobel Winners, and filtering out any without obvious nearterm engineering applications, I see:
- Optical tweezers (biomanipulation)
- LEDs
- Graphene
- CCD sensors
- Fiber optics
- Superconductors
- Integrated Circuits
- Nuclear physics
- Transistors
It's entirely possible that the next physics discoveries won't be very important, but they might be mid-range revolutions like the CCD and LEDs or era-defining like the transistor and integrated circuit.
There's also no need to stick with physics, such as with CRISPR in biology.
ulyssessword
22d ago
those internet calculators estimate...
I did 100 reps of 45 lbs (empty bar) bench press, and my app predicted that I had a negative one-rep max after seeing that. I don't trust the equations much anymore.
ulyssessword
23d ago
They'd do it later, after that was no longer true. It's no more "magic" than drawing five-fingered hands.
ulyssessword
24d ago
That would be the setup.
(Surely we would prove that they're truly aligned instead of just biding their time before giving them manufacturing capabilities, right?)
ulyssessword
24d ago
It's also the default logged-out behaviour.
ulyssessword
24d ago
The AI starts its messages with "Better for you if you take me off.", but the mundane benefits are too much for you to give up, so you ignore it.
ulyssessword
24d ago
Good luck convincing it of that.
ulyssessword
24d ago
Imagine a chimpanzee trying to align a human being.
Humans are not aligned to chimp values, and that likely stays true for any intelligence that's "human" enough to count for the definition.
What could it really do other than try to be cute, to play on the human's affectionate and childraising instincts?
If the superintelligence was truly aligned, it wouldn't impose that cost on the chimps. They could simply go about their days doing chimp things.
If the chimpanzees create a being that requires cuteness and childishness to placate, may later consider them inconvenient, and is either motivated or careless enough to self-modify away from valuing chimpanzees, then they have failed at creating an aligned superintelligence.
ulyssessword
24d ago
Sure, and (after sufficient setup) they can droneswarm the humans if we get out of hand.
Now that is a gun-rights idea I hadn't thought of before: subsidize/promote silencers (or anything else) that are only legal in some jurisdictions, get the courts to recognize it as "common use", and enshrine it as s right for everyone forever.
Of course, that requires the courts to cooperate, which hasn't been a good option in the past.
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