vga @ vga @sopuli.xyz

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Would it be better if he was, though?

It's weird when two horrible entities in the world hate each other. Is it popcorn time?

Sure, of course, and not liking things can be done without psychoanalyzing the author and it does not require feeling superior to them or ridiculing them.

Possibly the only thing more annoying than Yudkowsky are the anonymous online people who think they figured him out. Many of them are in these threads.

https://hpmor.com/ for anyone else with delusions of literary grandeur.

Possible, I guess, although I have 32GB RAM + 8GB swap and I wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary at the time.

Both the hardware and software (fedora 42 running cosmic desktop) are kinda cutting edge, so I think an honest crashing bug is more likely.

Fun coincidence, when I was about to write a supporting comment to this thread, my Fedora 42 running on X1 Carbon hard froze without any apparent reason and I had to hard reboot it.

For me Linux surpassed the Windows desktop experience in 1996 and even though Windows 2000 was a pretty good upgrade, I don't think it has surpassed desktop Linux yet. Windows 10 was not bad either, but now that has gone mostly downhill whereas Linux has merely plateaud at worst or has been improving slowly at best.

If you're not humblebragging, perhaps you oughta get a Linux-preinstalled laptop like System76.

If you were humblebragging, check out https://fedoraproject.org/workstation/ and get the Plasma edition.

Well, in a democracy it's important that people who want this can try to make it happen via official procedure, which this is.

That said, the people who want this are assholes and probably in bed with Russia.

I don't know about you, but the amount of self-control I have varies hugely during a typical month. So when I have more self-control, I can choose to help myself during the times when I have less.

I suppose the hit on Bin Laden couldn't have been launched without significant presence in Afghanistan. Why you stayed there after that though was weird. That seems to have been Obama's mistake.

More than many people did, though. Including you.

That would practically guarantee boots on the ground in Iran and a regime change in 3 months.

Iran's leaders are dumb, but I don't think they're that dumb.

edit hate to repeat a standard antisemitic trope, but Israel would have a big reason to fake that

Yeah, citizens and nuclear weapons research are perfectly equivalent targets.

It's because we grew out of having to do physical work 8-12 hours every day just to stay alive.

They are fully capable of extracting profile data from you even if you're in incognito/private mode. And it doesn't matter what browser you are using. My colleague was demonstrating techniques to do that with methods he personally figured out in one day in a hackathon in 2015.

Google has been actively researching and developing such techniques about as long as they have existed. I find it improbable that they would actually delete this data.

Next headline: Google promises to delete the Firefox private window data they keep about you