Fixed link: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/fi... (added trailing slash)

A new EFF web page warns that America's new proposed ban on TikTok could also apply to apps like WeChat...

And that's a bad thing why? WeChat is about the last platform one would think of as a bastion of free speech or privacy.

It's also notable that the linked EFF page completely skims over the utility of TikTok as a propaganda tool. Yeah, let's fight for the free speech of state actors! Woohoo! Righteous, maaaan.

https://www.alignmentforum.org...

Optimality is the tiger, and agents are its teeth You've done it. You've built the machine. You've read the AI safety arguments and you aren't stupid, so you've made sure you've mitigated all the reasons people are worried your system could be dangerous, but it wasn't so hard to do. AI safety seems a tractable concern. You've built a useful and intelligent system that operates along limited lines, with specifically placed deficiencies in its mental faculties that cleanly prevent it from being able to do unboundedly harmful things. You think. After all, your system is just a GPT, a pre-trained predictive text model. The model is intuitively smart—it probably has a good standard deviation or two better intuition than any human that has ever lived—and it's fairly cheap to run, but it is just a cleverly tweaked GPT, not an agent that has any reason to go out into the real world and do bad things upon it. [...]

I take it you've never been to Florida's beaches.

Rust 1.0 was released in 2015 ...

Every country does this, including the US. Here is the US's. definitions of various types of cheese: https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/t...

Rust has a close analogue of classes (and the equivalent of virtual functions, implemented with vtables); they're called structs and traits.

In short, old.

Or maybe you've just gotten richer, less willing to spend time, and more risk-averse in the last 30 years.

Yep, the whole universe is entangled, to varying degrees, limited by how fast and quickly information flows. Two stars 1 light year apart will only be entangled with versions of each other from 1 year earlier.

However, that's not really that big of a deal. Once your body becomes entangled with some quantum state, other quantum states are completely inaccessible to you. Once you see that Schrödinger's cat is dead, nothing you can do can affect the other live cat, even though it presumably lives on in a parallel world, according to the Multiple Worlds Interpretation.

Being well-entangled with everything around you is the default state of being. Superposition is when something isn't entangled with you and is the unusual case.

Wrong. By observing any quantum phenomenon, you do entangle yourself (your entire body, along with anything you then interact with) with it. This is often glazed over, but key to having a coherent understanding of quantum physics. https://physics.stackexchange.... https://www.lesswrong.com/post...

I'll give you three guesses for what the P in VPN stands for.

Wrong. https://i.imgur.com/NUPqzHB.jp...

What? Maybe a failure of a mission is just that.

Please, nobody tell them about libass!