Yeah it is. If they stop preaching AI doomerism then they're out of the cult and won't get invited to orgies anymore.

Hate to break it to you, but I don't think the AI doomers have a monopoly on orgies. You name the political / belief system and I'll find an orgy for you by 10pm.

Neoliberal YIMBYism?

Don't think it was a full on orgy but I've seen some cringey Yimby parties

Are you implying that every rationalist that preaches AI doomerism gets invited to orgies?

Isn't one of them going around offering people "reverse gangbangs" to resign from Anthropic?

No, he is saying that if they stop preaching it, they stop being invited. A -> B does not imply B -> A.

So even those who were never invited are afraid that they won't get invited anymore?

No, just the ones that are part of this specific community described in the blog post.

"Mostly" in the title implies otherwise.

The title is senstaionalist. The actual content of the article refers to a specific community, including Eliezer Yudkowsky, Aella, and others.

There is nothing as permanent as a temporary fix that works.

Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.

"it was written by that guy 5 years ago,but he left; so nobody is in charge and nobody understands it anymore, but it still works perfectly and we do not need any upgrades" :-))

"Okay, that's just about the end of your training, any quest-OH, Don't forget, you can never ever turn off the light in the storage closet! It is cursed and the company cannot function while the switch is off. Yes I know there's no lightbulb. No we do not know why. If we knew why it wouldn't be that way."

I worked at a place once with an old Win 2k server sitting in the corner of the server room. It had once been a workgroup/domain controller but was long retired from that job. As far as we could tell, nothing was talking to the box anymore and the box wasn’t hosting anything anymore. But for some reason if we shut it down, the network would have random failures to communicate between various devices. It was never especially high priority solve, so we just all knew that we couldn’t turn off that box. Never did find out what was misconfigured before I left.

My guess is WINS. Can you go back and check?

Sadly the place is long gone, but that was one of our guesses

Once I worked at a company in a "historic building":

In some of the rooms, the wallplugs were connected to the switch for the ceiling lightbulb and you had to draw/rotate the switch into the correct direction, to have energy on the wallplugs.

People always complained that something must be broken in these rooms,since they do not have alectricity the whole day on all the wallplugs :-D :-D

"No, we don't know why the two positions of the switch are labeled "magic" and "more magic".

"he also left this little BTC mining server in the back room, but it's so nice and warm in there now we just left it running"

temporary solutions often become permanent...

When I have to do a temporary solution, I purpusly make it as junky as possible and as PITA to use as possible.

Yep, there's regular flying for dogfighting, mining, landing, etc. Then there's supercruise for getting around a star system, and FSD jump (basically a loading screen) for going between systems.

> minecraft has like what 40 biomes, no man's sky has practically infinite biomes

Does it? I put about 80-ish hours into NMS last year. According to the wiki NMS has 13 biomes. In practice it has even fewer because the actual biome has little to no effect on gameplay. It's just a "look".

I had my first "scan this code with your phone" last week. Nope. Close tab and never go there again.

So that's 360K/year over 20 years?

And a lot more from subsequent months, but I don't think it's a problem that this wildly successful videogame made its developers decently rich.

Oh I fully agree. I hope Tarn an Zach make millions more and can keep working of their life's work for many years to come.

I've been all over Europe and I have never seen this....

I loved Pentiment, but it was soooo much reading.

Perhaps add "Tectonic" as a puzzle type? It's the same as Ripple Effect but it disallows diagonal repeats.

The problem with history is that you need to know when to look. If you're looking for some old code that you know existed but you don't know exactly what it was, you can't just browse to go and find it.

Sure, but beyond a certain point the code that's there isn't just drop in compatible.