The point of the paperclip maximiser is that it doesn’t care about you at all, ‘being nice’ to it makes no difference. It just wants to make paperclips, and will destroy you to do so.

Way to say you had a good school experience - and everyone should. But not everyone does, unfortunately.

As if some private guns would be any sort of fair fight against the full force of the US military

It’s so interesting to see how people react to something that is so normal to me 🤣

We also sometimes call it The Pound Shop.

I don’t know who is in the right. I would say that the important thing is that, since both of them condemn Israel’s actions, and the argument about whether it’s a ‘genocide’ is purely semantic, it isn’t a useful or productive argument - serving only to divide people and distract from the real issue.

I also don’t steal. I download my books from online copies, which is copying, not stealing.

I would have silently gone in my head ABCDEFGHIJKL and then said “MNOPQRSTUVWXYZ”, but I suppose I could have said “MABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ”, or should I say “MABCDEFGHIJKLOPQRSTUVWXYZ”?

Come to think of it, why do our letters have a standard order, and if they have to, why that one? A better order, off the top of my head, is OUEIAPKGHXBDPTMNLWYVZSFRCQJ

What do you mean, they give open weights models back that anyone can use. Only the proprietary corporate AI is exploitative.

If that’s so, the angles are probably not right angles.

Straight lines. Also two sets of parallel lines. This is one definition of a square, but not the common one.

I use Mythic Beasts