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My 70-year-old mum came over for a visit today, and she'd read some of the news stories about Anthropic researchers estimating that there's a 10% chance their AI systems will wipe out humanity by 2030.

So she had some very concerned questions for her computer scientist son. They were:

1. "How do they come up with those percentages? Do they just make them up, or do you think they have their chatbots make them up for them?"
2. "Are the Anthropic people swindlers or are they actually mentally unwell?"
3. "How can a guy who looks like his biggest worry ought to be whether his parents remembered to pack his school lunch be lead researcher for Anthropic?"

(I had to tell her that the press had misled her: Jacob Coxon was not lead researcher, just one of many researchers in their pretraining team.)

She then remarked that if *she* was an amoral CEO of an AI cult, she'd keep an eye out for employees who seemed like they were doing poorly and might want to leave soon. Then she'd offer them 10 million dollars in cash to "resign out of concern for the future of humanity".

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"fishing" game where you are a cat trying to get people to feed you by flopping and rolling around in their vicinity. cat controls exactly like the lure on the end of a rod with full ragdolling. cater specific jigging techniques & haircut upgrades to entice each of your targets

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genuinely kinda stunned that square just dropped a full localization - for the first time ever - of the ORIGINAL mystery dungeon game, with zero fanfare

store.steampowered.com/app/402

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Picard management tip: You are a dignitary representing your organization, always.

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Just bought the Peter Gabriel song from Myst 4 on Bandcamp so I can have an unskippable Peter Gabriel interlude anytime I want

polygon.com/24216047/myst-game

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After about a year of working on it, my #NerdStitch cross-stitch tribute to the 1985 Amiga Deluxe Paint King Tut is done! Created from the original image, I did have to scale it down a little. The stitched version is 180x200, about 34,000 stitches.

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Golfshrine News: the navigation bar has been relocated from the left side of the page to the top. But also, we've acquired more stuff, so that's actually worth writing the update about.

netizen.club/~wildweasel/updat

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You might not like it, but this is what peak computer performance looks like.

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