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[–] aio@awful.systems 1 points 1 hour ago

When people compile compilers do they actually specialize a compiler to itself (as in definition 3 in the paper) as one of the steps? That's super interesting if so, I had no idea. My only knowledge of bootstrapping compilers is simple sequences of compilers that work on increasing fragments of the language, culminating with the final optimizing compiler being able to compile itself (just once).

[–] aio@awful.systems 4 points 1 hour ago

I've been using Anki, it works great but requires you to supply the discipline and willingness to learn yourself, which might not be possible for kids.

[–] aio@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Writing "My Immortal" in 2006 when nothing quite like it had ever been written before, is a (possibly unintentional) stroke of genius. Writing "My Immortal" after it's already been written is worthless.

[–] aio@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

are we really clutching our pearls because someone named themselves after a demon

[–] aio@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

ok but what does this mean for Batman vs Lex Luthor

[–] aio@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago
[–] aio@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

As we know, the critical age for a boy genius is somewhere from 11 (Harry Potter) to 15 (Paul Atreides), so the gene-enhanced baby ought to have a fair shot after a few months or so.

[–] aio@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

The Zizians believe in IQ, that animals are ethically equivalent to humans, that all people contain exactly two personality cores corresponding to the two hemispheres of their brains, that every personality core is either intrinsically good or intrinsically evil and less than 5% are good. They believe in violence as a form of mutually assured destruction: you should always escalate every conflict to the maximum in order to dissuade hypothetical agents from blackmailing you. And the stuff about Skynet.

I think to understand properly it should be recognized that while the personality-core stuff is out of left field, all of the other beliefs are pretty much just logical conclusions of mainstream rationalist thought. For instance Yudkowsky has to repeatedly explain that he's not in favor of violence (except when he's advocating for bombing data centers) precisely because it's really easy to reach that conclusion from what he's written. The Zizians mainly differ by reaching that logical conclusion and being willing to act on it.

[–] aio@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (5 children)

ok i watched Starship Troopers for the first time this year and i gotta say a whole lot of that movie is in fact hot people shooting bugs

[–] aio@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

Apparently "emotionally mature" means "blushing schoolgirl"

[–] aio@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

for a moment there i thought i'd been uninformed about the US threatening to annex California

[–] aio@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Declaring black wins draws would be more in the spirit of how the game is actually played at high level. I don't think anyone seriously considers the possibility that black could have a forced win in chess from the starting position.

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