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I've been reading some Effective Altruist writings and learned that even if AI had moral goals it could be very dangerous 
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Like imagine an AI whos goal was to maximize the number of mosquito nets given to Africa, sounds great right? 
NO! Because the AI would be willing to do anything in order to achieve it's goals it might do something like commit one of the largest acts of fraud in history to get the money for more mosquito nets! 
Hmm... what does this remind me of? 
- IanMurdock : Use Debian dweeb
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hello~ idk if this has been discussed in the community yet, but there's a really easy exploit to cheat in balatro --- you can right-click the .exe file, go to "Open Archive", and modify the source code directly. i made a video so you can see how it works:
i'm bringing it up because if the editor is smart, there's no way to tell if a game has been modified or not --- you can, for example, increase the droprate of powerful jokers or legendaries and cheat in a speedrun category
i've sent a message in the speedrunning groomercord that they should probably modify the rules so that runners have to verify their game files on Steam before they submit a run. and more generally, i think ppl should be aware that this exists so they can call out suspect videos and runs
i almost didn't want to publicize this because the more well-known this gets, the easier it will be for ppl to cheat in speedruns and tournaments and stuff, but at the end of the day i think it's better if more ppl know and can establish rules to stop it when it matters
Even works on private paywalled articles 
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Don't ever use Reddit again. pic.twitter.com/ynSlWFt844
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) April 23, 2024
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Stomp sexy Indian dude skulls with steel toed boots.
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Huge news for anyone working in tech in the US.
— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) April 23, 2024
Noncompetes are now banned: not just in California (like before), but nationwide. Very, very relevant for anyone at Amazon (which is the Big Tech that has enforced noncompetes even for low-level engineering positions). pic.twitter.com/H8F4UVxhwS
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^ Yeah this thing
Truely unsurprising.
{Its basically just a VNC connection to an android VM with Playwright automation scripts for the 5 services it does. Oh and that VM connection is also how you put in your logins to those services, probably scraping your password}
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Australia’s censorship industrial complex:
— Ana Mostarac (@anammostarac) April 20, 2024
“The problem that you’ve got here with this eSafety Commissioner, she’s an activist.
She will continue to expand her role to police the internet, to censor debate in a way that’s consistent with her own ideological views.
You have… pic.twitter.com/GZosiBHAcb
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“Our societies have not previously tolerated spaces that are beyond the reach of law enforcement [mass surveillance]” seems like a more complete statement. But can you imagine the Orwellian dystopia we’d live in if the statement was true?
— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) April 21, 2024
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Which company looks like X at 10pm on a Saturday night? #Xdeveloperchallenge pic.twitter.com/BWUmCiCkqS
— John Ji (@johnji_) April 21, 2024
cracker foids: ❌
American Citizens: ❌
non-autists: ❌
they/thems: ❌
Elon won
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As I've mentioned 100 times before, the powerusers of StackOverflow are completely detached from the core goals of the site and instead prefer to bicker amongst themselves in the Meta forum.
A poweruser named "M--" (profile: "Engineer by day, G*mer by night. Always in the process of learning something new.") says:
I raised an NAA [Not An Answer] flag on this answer Answer to: Blank space appearing at bottom of all webpages in Google Chrome on iOS [closed] which got declined.
Powerusers don't like having their flags declined because it goes on their permanent record, and god forbid one poweruser disagree with another.
The original question has now been blatted from existence, because just like /r/subredditdrama then whenever a post is linked into Meta then it's guaranteed to be brigaded into an unusable mess, even in cases like this where the question is perfectly valid and the complaint is about one single answer.
Now what is the answer that so annoyed this poweruser?:
THANK YOU! Disabling smooth scrolling took care of this problem on my iPhone 14 Pro on iOS 17.2.1.
Note that this answer includes the exact steps taken to solve the issue and the version on which it works. M-- just dislikes it because it starts with "THANK YOU!".
The rest of this Meta page totals over 5000 words of comments and arguments.
Some people just seem to love getting into involved debates of how should a particular turd be classified and how to correctly dispose of it, instead of, you know, just getting rid of it. Meanwhile dozens more are deposited around them... Someone spends ten seconds mashing the keyboard, and then bunch of other people take few man-hours figuring out what to do with it
comments one user with no self-awareness whatsoever.
Another user writes an essay explaining the workflow for handling answers and discussing the intricacies of:
You are the latest victim of a problem Stack Overflow has had for years; there are conflicting rules about how NAA and VLQ flags are supposed to work.
I'll let anyone else who wants to read through all of the answers and comments for pure 
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AIs are now capable of hypnotizing humans
— AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ (@AISafetyMemes) April 20, 2024
Why this matters: soon, AGIs may be able to mind control us
This isn’t sci-fi, this already happens!
EXAMPLE #1: Did you know chicken brains have an “off button“? We hypnotize them… because we’re smarter!
And it’s not just chickens… https://t.co/YzWYEP8kbz pic.twitter.com/HEx8nls101
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