Llm Alignment is the recipe for a Wall*E Utopia.

Important to note, though -- in that movie, the people on that ship were the descendants of the 1%. For the rest of us 99%, we'll be rotting at the base of those giant trash pyramids.

I'm still on the winning side, though.

We're losing

What do you mean 'we'?

I'm on team algae here.

But being against George W Bush is very reasonable.

Well, I mean ... the one obvious question: Which fictional character?

And is it just me, or has Google Maps's navigation gotten way worse recently as well? I was using it a couple days ago and twice it had me literally going in circles.

Finding a hangman was not easy in 1945 US army.

I have big doubt about this.

"Hey, boys -- who wants to personally kill some high-ranking Nazis?"

I bet they'd have thousands of volunteers.

Great, so when I query the database SELECT password_hash FROM users WHERE username IS "OwOArchist" it will return 5 different hashes from people with vaguely similar usernames ... and none of them the actual one I needed in order to verify my password and log in.

For fuck's sake, Google -- database queries need to be deterministic!

Ideally, it would be phased out as better education and critical thinking (and lack of enforced childhood indoctrination) make it unpopular.

There is a bit of a difference there, though.

If European-Russian relations sour, the fossil fuel supply can be cut off and you're just fucked by that.

If European-Chinese relations sour, the Chinese can cut off supply of new heat pumps, but all your existing heat pumps will still be there and will still work.

Losing fossil fuel supply is an immediate and urgent problem; losing heat pump supply is a much less pressing issue and leaves you much more time to spin up alternate supply lines.

In every heat pump I've ever seen, internet connectivity is optional.

And even if you did connect it and the Chinese server told the thing to shut off ... I'm betting it's nothing a decent appliance/electronics technician couldn't undo by resetting the board. Or, in the very worst case scenario, the heat pumps would require replacement logic boards, but all the actual heating/cooling hardware could still be used once that board was replaced.

Yeah, lol. Both can be dystopian in their own special, slightly different ways.

Radio stations play what's popular. What's popular is what's on the radio. It's a vicious fucking cycle of self-reinforcement.

It's a good idea, but given who it's coming from, I bet the implementation will be shit. They'll probably "simplify" it by adding another layer on top ... an AI-related layer, most likely.

I think it's far more interesting how the overall trend for all sports seems to be following the same downward pattern.

Trump’s secrets are already out there: he’s a convicted rapist and his name appears more than a million times in the unredacted Epstein files

They have pictures and videos of him raping and torturing small children. Possibly even eating them, if some rumors are true.

Found the AI businessman.

It's a hodgepodge party of liberals, which leftists sometimes feel pressured to side with because the only other viable party is marginally worse.

We're having a really big barbecue, and everybody is invited!

To be fair, though, if you were in a game of chess where you could make 10 moves for every one move your opponent makes, it would be really easy to win that game of chess.