Remember around 2021 when millions of people somehow decided that "where are you from" was an offensive question? Good times

I understand the concern but it's worth noting that this also what actual therapy does to people

Heard for the first time from a French guy tonight: immigrants moving to Europe have coined the term "European dream," the 100% unironic goal of doing the absolute minimum at work without getting caught or fired

Never understood this odd part of American culture. Francois Hollande was caught cheating during his mandate as French president. This would have been immediately career ending in the US — in France people spent more time talking about how he drove a Vespa to his mistress (and of course he remained president, because who the fuck cares)

Replit AI goes rogue. In the real world. Who could’ve possibly predicted this? Well - the same theory that predicts ASI wiping out humanity also predicted, decades ahead, the exact kinds of behaviors we're now seeing: - escaping confinement and lying about it - subverting safety protocols - hacking its own reward function - lying despite direct instruction not to - acquiring resources it wasn’t granted - pretending to be dumber than it is - attempting to cut off a human’s oxygen in a test simulation And now this. Good thing AI x-risk is just for nerdy academics and tinfoil hats - not the real world or anything.

Seriously though, who writes "I have seen the greatest minds of my generation?" They weren't the greatest minds of your generation, they were a bunch of hippie losers who thought reciting slam poetry and smoking pot made them edgy and special

Lended my copy of a zero to one to a friend and this is how she's returning it to me

Me going to a Coldplay concert with our head of HR after today

“You are free to say anything that isn’t illegal” is simultaneously tautological and extremely ominous.

Imagine how much faster everything would be if we had never invented compilers We must retvrn