Spicier side blog

No one tells you that one day you will get older and look around and notice that 95% of ppl who own a dog should not own a dog

I need every sheltered poorly socialized anger-suppressed autistic weird girl late-bloomer suburbanite with passive aggressive helicopter parents who grew up with no steady friends no romantic relationships practically invisible yet still heckled by their peers and belittled by their own family for not passing life milestones to drop everything and watch Dinner in America. Then I want you to open your window scream into the neighborhood and remember that it’s never EVER too late to pick yourself up grow a fucking backbone and get shit done. be passionate be loud as fuck take up so much space that it causes problems live a violently colorful and rich life so that the quiet boxed-in people pleaser you once were breaks down in cathartic tears send post

I've made this exact post like 3 different times atp but. It's endlessly funny when people (especially tech company people) treat Asimov's three laws as a legit proposed framework for Artificial Intelligence safety when like. Nearly every single Asimov story they're featured in involves something going wrong as a result of a robot trying to follow three three laws in a situation that makes execution of the laws ambiguous or contradictory. They're not a guideline for legit AI programming they're a plot device designed to cause problems due to interacting in weird ways with complicated hypothetical situations!

we've implemented the safety standards from the award-winning These Are Insufficient Safety Standards series of novels!

i ❤ fact checking bold unsourced claims

The last part was kind of insane, honestly. When we started changing platforms for the donor database, I kept telling them that yes I was aware we already had an account for the volunteer database, and no that could not be connected to the donor database. And they said yes fine sure and then connected them anyway. And I called them back and said, excuse me, I'm confused, I can see both databases. And they said, well, yeah, but it's only you, someone has to be able to see both databases to give other users access. The other users can't see both. And I said, no, we have been asking for a completely separate database. I should not be able to see both. And they said, you are one organization, one organization can't have two databases. And I said, last year someone used our volunteer email list to commit approximately one thousand felonies. Please feel free to imagine how much worse it could have been had they had a way to use volunteers' email addresses to get their legal names. We do not want this to be something anyone can do no matter how much we trust them. Let me describe those felonies to you in more detail. And they emailed me two hours later and said, you can have two separate databases.

This post feels like watching an iceberg go by in clear water. The amount of stuff going on beneath the surface of AO3 just astonishes.

Approximately one THOUSAND felonies

*walks around my house in a tank top and underwear like im the only playable woman in a david cage game*

girl you erected a mysterious black monolith that contained all the knowledge your culture had ever collected were you hoping he'd develop rudimentary tool use