Malaysian. Dilettante. @RecurseCenter Alum. Cover from @Andrew_MacLean 's APOCALYPTIGIRL. ruby.social/@sengming
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Why should the AI alignment problem be prioritized when the human alignment problem is still open, with little recent progress?
We already have a paperclip maximization machine.
We call it capitalism. It causes people to maximize individual wealth at the expense of all else.
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Here's a KL mystery you can help me solve. For years, two French street signs have inexplicably stood high in a Chow Kit back alley intersection. Rue de Rivoli is in Paris, Rue Assalit in Nice. But no business I can trace in the area from 2013-2022 is French themed.
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18 Nov 2022
I reported on the incredibly impressive global effort to get Malaysians' postal ballots home for GE15 (that made me an emotional wreck) buzzfeednews.com/article/cla…
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9 Aug 2022
The initial versions of SQLite was tested on the DDG-79 Oscar Austin. Which is a actual battleship. My friends SQLite was battleship tested from the start corecursive.com/066-sqlite-w…
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28 Jul 2022
So what Tocqueville is saying, is that early American colonists were anarchists.
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6 Jul 2022
Thanks Mark for explaining that `git reflog` just means “List the SHAs of commits I have visited recently” blog.plover.com/prog/git/tip…
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29 Jun 2022
I don’t think Piketty understands Merchants? I mean merchants care about Making Money. That should be on the top of the list.
28 Jun 2022
Sending this to future me so I never forget. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO FOLLOW UP guzey.com/follow-up/
1 Jun 2022
I pick movies to watch based on their trailers, so I’d love it if reviews were written based on them. E.g., Top Gun the movie is exactly the movie you think you’re gonna get from the trailer. The Everything, Everywhere trailer looks nuts but the movie is even nuttier etc.
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29 May 2022
From the Berkshire Hathaway annual letter: “Every year, your company makes substantial federal income tax payments. In 2021, for example, we paid $3.3 billion while the U.S. Treasury reported total corporate income-tax receipts of $402 billion.”
18 Apr 2022
If you put a banana into the freezer it will be liquified after it thaws.
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14 Apr 2022
Mary Oliver: "Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?"
Me: OK I'll just breath a little more.
12 Apr 2022
I've noticed some New Yorkers referencing train lines when they post about where they live so let me just say that I live near Times Square 1/2/3/7/A/C/E/B/D/F/M/W/R/Q/N/S/
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30 Mar 2022
I'm a fan of doing incremental rewrites of codebases. Meaning, to rewrite parts of a codebase while the old code is still running ... until all the old code is gone. I think I'm finally getting right with the THIRD rewrite.
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24 Mar 2022
GitHub is down 3 days in a row. GitHub status stops accepting new subscriptions.
22 Mar 2022
There are many amazing nuggets from this article but I still can't get over that they tried reforming Jihadists by making them do corporate capitalism in prison and it sounds like its working?? theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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28 Jan 2022
There’s a joke that if you like an actor enough you’d be happy to watch him recite his groceries list. I’m about to read an entire book about Haruki Murakami’s T Shirts.
