

Your neighbor’s open wifi.
Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!


Your neighbor’s open wifi.


When I googled that was the list I got, but I know that California, at least, still has in-person voting too.
California has “universal mail-in voting”, not “mail-only”. Meaning every voter is eligible to vote by mail, not that in-person voting is unavailable.


What states are “by mail only”?


“[…] the14th Amendment was passed exclusively in the aftermath of the Civil War, so that to ensure that the children of slaves would be citizens. It had no other meaning and purpose outside of that, and that’s been clear, obviously, since the day that it was passed.”
If that’s his attitude towards #14, how does he feel about #2?


Guys. Guys. I’ve got it. This is poetry.


Sure. Whether or not its constitutional, etc. is really beside the point. Any official challenge to the governor’s declaration would necessarily involve demonstrating that McConnell is alive and well (or not). In either outcome, the question of the governor’s authority would be moot.


What are you suggesting should have been done here?


To be fair, there are important differences between open source and closed source software.


They do pay for their power. The bill would require them to pay for grid upgrades that their usage makes necessary.


I’m curious how it’s considered a “layoff” if it’s based on performance rather than the job itself being eliminated.


Fun fact: no member of the Supreme Court was willing to sign their name to the Bush v. Gore decision. It was instead issued per curiam, “by the court” itself.


So stop acting politically, John.


Joey, have you ever been to a Turkish recruitment office?


Reminds me of the old trick on HTML forms where you use CSS to make one of the form fields invisible to humans and reject any submission that filled in that field.


The problem is that an AI built to maximize paperclips might conclude that converting the planet to paperclips is an acceptable cost of maximizing paperclip production. It might understand why humans think it’s bad to convert the planet, but disagree. It would need to be explicitly programmed to prioritize human life over paperclips.
otherwise we would just switch it off
If it were super-intelligent, it could probably trick us into leaving it turned on.


A paperclip maximizer driven by self-preservation? What could possiblie go wrong?
Who grades the test? Who judges the competition?
The lack of self-awareness is truly astonishing.