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Hi. I'm a game designer who cares deeply about AI safety. I saw the Future of Life Institute's Keep The Future Human contest https://keepthefuturehuman.ai/contest/ and made a brows…

There's strong evidence that all life on this planet can trace back to a single strand of DNA, which evolved exactly once in our billions of years. For example, if I understand thi…

Or "set" and "where"

Hooray! Named arguments finally!

In addition to management, he's an amazing engineer in his own right. (I briefly worked with him at Metaweb)

This is interesting: > We will reduce the data you give an app when you sign in -- to only your name, profile photo, and email address. What about localization info such as languag…

When I watch the constant progress of Unix time and milestones like this, I really feel the passage of time in way I don't otherwise. Sometimes it freaks me out.

Project Loon seems to be doing fine. They're using balloons to keep equipment aloft for months at a time.

Correct. If we as a society could somehow "get used to terrorism" it would be no more of a threat than falling vending machines, as pointed out above. Plus, we'd save billions of d…

This browser extension changed my life for the better: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kill-fb-feed/ I like Facebook, it serves a lot of good roles in my life (inclu…

For example, this tool says: https://github.com/x0rz/EQGRP/blob/master/Linux/doc/user.too... # ELATEDMONKEY is a local privelege escalation exploit against systems running the cPan…

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