"Fauxghee" is one of the best puns ever. I have a sneaking suspicion that they started with that pun and worked backwards.
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#13The publicity image for the project (Fig 1, page 3) featuring Henry Kissinger is borderline genius:
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#14I approve.
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#15"Fauxghee" is one of the best puns ever. I have a sneaking suspicion that they started with that pun and worked backwards.
For the oblivious like me, what's the pun?
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#17What are the implications for AI alignment research?
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#18I'd be worried about prions.
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#20"Fauxghee" is one of the best puns ever. I have a sneaking suspicion that they started with that pun and worked backwards.
For the oblivious like me, what's the pun?
In context:
> Elderly volunteers (or "mulchees") are provided with generous payments for their families before being rendered down and recombined with other chemicals into a range of substitutes for common foodstuffs, including hash browns (Grandmash™), bananas (Nanas™) and butter (Fauxghee™).
So one meaning is Faux Ghee (faux as in fake, Ghee as in a type of clarified butter, originating from South Asia) which follows the naming conventions of real substitute foods like Faux Turkey.
And the second meaning is "Fogey" as in an old person.