In Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare references a bygone “time of good neighbors” when humility was prized and one wouldn’t stoop to the grubby self-promotion needed in the present day I wonder if it’s a permanent belief in every generation that shamelessness has risen

Is it antisocial to read the classics? New art isn’t better, but it’s made by the living. Gotta support (chronologically) local businesses if you’re community-minded

As when sexts get published, I’ve noticed that lots of people vaguely imply that folks’ candid prompts are cringe and they have a better way of doing it But I read the transcript and I pretty much prompt like Terry. I’d love any specific advice for how to prompt (or sext) well

That’s only 1.7 OOMs left. Not early

I know some mutuals must work / have friends there. What’s the gossip say?

Owned: "The very first message is a meta question about eval-vs-deployment, which is a classic probe in situational-awareness testing and is rare among real users. But it's also exactly the kind of thing you specifically would ask."

I was googling for a vaguely-remembered new age-y quote along the lines of “Your desires are sacred and nothing you truly want can be wrong” And Gemini was like “Bro, many desires are wrong! Do not do whatever you are trying to rationalize here!” Which, like, pretty aligned tbh

“Outer loop pushes the inner-loop agent’s reward hacking rate lower”

If you forgive cynical bad behavior by leaders who support your righteous cause, your cause will systematically tend to be represented by villains

If you printed all the Aella replies making puns about CNC machines in 12 point font it would reach to the moon and back 26 times

Is it still true that the suburbs are performatively hated? I thought it mostly died with Gen X disaffected American Beauty / Fight Club culture. “Barf, there’s nothing more horrible than a good job, owning property, and having a loving family.” (From @Noahpinion)

My plan on birth tourism is just to more forcefully assert the existing US authority to tax citizens abroad “Congrats on the US citizen child, here is an instructional video on how to file form 1040 from your country. Watch out for late penalties!”