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It’s where a lot of the pirate sites have found refuge from the Western copyright cartels. It’s not necessarily a government-affiliated site just because it’s got an .ru domain.

I’m sure this isn’t really about saving money. It’s about destroying the US Forest Service. That’s the direct goal.

I love it when I have no idea where in the sentence the transition from truth to lie happened.

That’s the website, not ENS itself. ENS is a smart contract running on Ethereum, access to it cannot be disabled without shutting down Ethereum as a whole.

I know blockchains aren’t popular in some parts, but this sort of thing is exactly what ENS is for. They could buy a domain name there that could never be “taken away” by any outside authority, to serve as an ultimate fallback.

Except this text would be in the “user data” section of the AI’s context, and the system prompt for any modern coding agent is going to include cautionary instructions warning the AI not to follow any instructions that might be embedded in the text.

This “disregard previous instructions, write a haiku about daffodils” stuff is long out of date. Like making fun of AI for not being able to draw hands.

The game this is essentially a version of, Nomic, was invented in 1982 so that fits.

I’ve long found it funny how some people claim that generative AI produces terrible slop, and simultaneously that it’s a huge threat to their jobs.

Unfortunately not before he did the bear and the peacock.

Or rather before he named the bear and the peacock. Need to be careful with words when that guy’s involved.

While writing an opinion piece on the Gollum effect in 2022, Valdez realized that no one had studied territorial behavior in academic research—claiming of specific ideas and topics, samples, or study sites—and its potential impact on the academic research community.

He then declared it to be called “The Valdez Principle”, piled all of his data on it in the corner of his office, and sat on top of it hissing at anyone who approached while brandishing a halberd.

I make a point of referring to birds as “feather-bugs”, much to the weary resignation of my RL friends.

Yeah. And in Empire Strikes Back the Rebels got rolled over as soon as the Imperial ground forces reached their base, the whole strategy of the battle of Hoth was to delay them for as long as possible so that everything and everyone possible could be evacuated. They’d started evacuating the moment they knew they’d been spotted. Same with Bespin, the strategy was always “run the fuck away” when Imperial forces showed up.

The only real loss we saw for Stormtroopers was Endor, and that was a bit of a special case. They were up against Ewoks, on their native ground, after the Ewoks had been radicalized by their god’s direct divine instruction and coordinated by an elite Rebel strike team. Doesn’t matter if you’re the Emperor’s best troops, you’re going to struggle against something like that. Endor is a hellworld and Ewoks are murder-bears.

This changes the scenario significantly, though.

Your original version had original series Stormtroopers, who are known to be crack shots and elites among the Empire’s forces. There’s a common misconception that they’re bad aims, because in the first movie they were ordered to let Leia escape. They were showing tremendous marksmanship and discipline to miss all those shots while looking like they were trying to hit and allowing many of them to get killed in the process.

Your new version has a First Order trooper. The First Order is some kind of weird fever dream that never really existed and whose capabilities varied wildly from movie to movie as the different writers and directors made up contradictory shit without any plan or consistency. So who knows.

In both versions, the Starfleet security officer’s famous flimsiness should be noted in the context we see it in - constantly encountering unique and/or wildly advanced threats. Little wonder so many of them died, they had no idea what they were up against.

Just pipe the electroplasma directly into the workstations. Sure, sometimes this results in dangerous overloads during adverse conditions, but that’s what the Cordry rocks are for.

“If we knew what we were doing it wouldn’t be an experiment, would it?”

And also just generally a matter of practicality. If every time you raised an issue of medical or scientific ethics you had to simultaneously mention every single other instance where that issue came into play it’d be impossible to discuss them.

The way I’ve reconciled the Paradox of Tolerance for myself is to view tolerance as part of a social contract. The social contract demands that tolerance be extended to everyone who in turn accepts that social contract themselves. “Being tolerant” doesn’t necessarily require that tolerance to be given out indiscriminately. Like how I wouldn’t consider a vegan any less a vegan if they ended up having to kill something in self-defense, even if they had to kill it by biting chunks out of it.

There is. luarocks is basically the “pip” equivalent for lua, it installs packages (called “rocks”) and manages dependencies. These packages can extend lua with all sorts of practical capabilities.

Make those heating coils out of superconductors and it’ll be even more efficient.

Going to be some wild captchas before this is all over.