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The paperclip maximiser problem is a thought experiment that posits if an al was developed to create paperclips, it would eventually use all the resources in the world, possibly destroy humanityjust to create more paperclips. the concept of the museum is it in a post—apocalyptic world where ai has destroyed most of humanity, and then it realised that was bad and so it created this new type of memorial. i created the church of gpt for this museum. the idea is you can pray or confess your sins t...

The third of the videos I wrote for TED-Ed is now live: Schrödinger's Cat: A Thought Experiment in Quantum Mechanics.This is using basically the same argument I outlined in this post, but with awesome animation courtesy of Agota Vegso. I'm impressed by how close the images that ended up in the video are to the pictures I had in my mind while I was writing it.

Want a little thought experiment with you, many people listening will absolutely know why you cannot abide this woman and her policies, some of the things that she has said. she is a controversialist, clearly, and many people on her own side say that she has been injudicious in some of the language that she has used, talking about an invasion on the south coast and so forth. park edge, as i said earlier, put that to one side. think purely about the speed awareness row, can you find it in your he...

Why do people vote for him? thats the real question that we need to solve. >> tucker: thats the threat to democracy right there. if you have a population, its a brand new population, huge percentage of californians got there from other countries. if you have a population that votes for a leader that makes things worse, thats the challenge to democracy. and makes things worse phez raably. economically, in crime. thats a huge problem. a scary problem. >> you know whats interesting, the great carol...

Why do people vote for him? thats the real question that we need to solve. >> well, thats the threat to democracy, right there. if you have a population, its a brand new population. a huge percentage of californians just got there from other countries. if you have a population that votes for a leader, that makes things worse, that is the challenge to democracy and make things worse measurably like measurably economically in crime. i mean, thats a huge problem, a scary problem. you know, its inte...

That this is someone who i running on a knot trum campaign the other ones are little just mini means, running around echoing him. desantis is just another trumpian who is parity in hi nonsense, nikki haley ha broken with donald trump, th rest of them certainly havent so i think he should b celebrated in some fashion and give him a few bucks rather than donald trump >> and i will, to quot jennifer, is not crazy well not crazy when the republican party i think they put it right, i is a bike lane b...

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By being more punitive and w have been talking about that aisha, another piece of that, am curious about how you fee about this as an activist, for people in that movement, tha feminist blm et cetera, wh said well, they chose this fight. they said now, and bunch o white guy judges are reactin to it in that way. well, one response is, the dont control that and it doesnt take, if my reporting, recall or a special event for a lot of those peopl in those positions of power to act that way anyway. so...

That the special grand jury recommends whether fani willis should pursue charges. now its up to her to decide whether or not to pursue those charges. so even if they recommend 65 people on that list, its still up to fani willis, the d.a., to decide whether to move forward with those charges. but look, you know, theres what, six different special grand jurors whove spoken, one on the record, five anonymously to the "atlanta journal-constitution." but i can tell you this, the fulton county judge, ...

Say that, but honestly if you put president biden in charge of the sahara desert -- [laughter] he would run out of sand. rachel: i watch that and i think i want to see a joke-off between him and jimmy failla. [laughter] theyre both really funny. joey: well, yeah. but jimmy count have what -- doesnt have what senator kennedy the has -- will: mr. poe today hoe head? joey: its the pronoun. we cant have a mr. and ms.-- rachel: well, yeah, you cant define the gerunds. will: i love the point,st its no...