Akin to Saltpeter

subtly sneaking AI images into the FOV of my academic rivals in order to irreversibly reduce their IQ by 10 points

Surgery risks aside, I feel like bariatric surgery is probably one of the most rational responses to an over eating habit. It's an insanity of modern excess that the clearest signal your body feels when eating (how full you feel) is completely unrelated to your actual caloric needs.

From personal experience I feel like blood sugar / whatever happens when you eat protein are also very clear signals, just more delayed. Bariatric surgery is a temporary solution by its nature, no? Hard to call it most rational especially with the advent of GLP-1 drugs.

I would recommend trying out upping your protein! It is much slower to digest and helped me immensely with feeling full during my dieting. Best of luck tho, the stomach should eventually shrink on its own anyway.

Surgery risks aside, I feel like bariatric surgery is probably one of the most rational responses to an over eating habit. It's an insanity of modern excess that the clearest signal your body feels when eating (how full you feel) is completely unrelated to your actual caloric needs.

From personal experience I feel like blood sugar / whatever happens when you eat protein are also very clear signals, just more delayed. Bariatric surgery is a temporary solution by its nature, no? Hard to call it most rational especially with the advent of GLP-1 drugs.

You're so right he DID have the hots for the real!Dulcimera, I totally forgot about that.

everything looks like Chesterton's fence if you're stupid

well there's probably a reason I'm stupid

Hi, it’s me, your Flix Bus driver. I heard some of you back there asking why we’re on this dirt road in the middle of a cow pasture if this is supposed to be a direct line from Berlin to Munich. To that I say: you all need to mind your own damn business and look at the fucking moo cows.

I should review Dianetics for the next Astral Codex Ten contest. Haven't read it but my conclusion is 100% going to be "haha isn't it interesting that there are some directionally correct ideas in here and just maybe we should take it seriously?? haha just kidding obviously but also haha wink emoji"

I'm really interested to know what kind of directionally correct ideas one can find in Dianetics. That we should give a nonzero amount if money to Hubbard?

We're at the stage of the exponential where Anthropic employees find counterexamples to famous conjectures but you have to run the code proving the counterexample on a sandbox because there's a good chance that the AI put some malicious code in by accident.

what are you talking about

See, the difference is between misapplying a power tool when given a power tool, and putting nails in bread. Crafting a malicious payload is a very different thing from dropping a database, the second one is so famously easy to do due to (entirely human) stupidity that it's a subject of memes, the first one requires deliberation. The article's author is IMO being paranoid, too - you can just read the code.

We're at the stage of the exponential where Anthropic employees find counterexamples to famous conjectures but you have to run the code proving the counterexample on a sandbox because there's a good chance that the AI put some malicious code in by accident.

what are you talking about

I'm not sure it's even true that type-checking malicious Lean code can run arbitrary programs? You can do proofs by evaluation in Lean but you don't have access to IO in that, unless I'm missing something.

beauty addicts are always like "can we stop by that river for a time? I haven't been before" but they have. it's a semantics issue.

it's literally not the same.

I keep thinking "quirky chungus" is a species of oak, Quercus chungus

goshdarn it we've isolated pure millennial redditor!

trying to get the funny medieval peasants to try my future dorito and accidentally stumbling onto the communal fencepost hosting one of many rural german cat-mutilating games that will later be a wedge in relations between the urban and agricultural communities, shocking me into a months-long silence

getting served what can only be described as "mold from a random log of fallen wood floating in a stein of watered-down beer" as a gift in return for the doritos and getting an experience that can only be described as "Protestant Ayahuasca"

going south to seek some sort of normalcy which I might disrupt, where in the refuge I am served something which dripped from a statue. I ask what it is. it's from the bones inside, I am told, and it leaks forever, and it brings an ecstatic state

The peasants will occasionally hearken back to you, in years to come, as the strange traveler with the unusually melancholic disposition—in reference to your distress at encountering normal everyday things. Only very rarely do they recall your odd bag of fried pasta with what could best be described as a petty-aristocrat amount of seasoning.

If that, honestly.

prevailing complaint: they were not sweet enough