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New comment by badRNG in "AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations"

badRNG — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:46:31 +0000

We shouldn't be the least bit surprised no human has complied so far.

If they had, then we wouldn't be having this conversation. For all we know, there may be a vast multiverse of universes some with humans and we would only find ourselves having this conversation in one of the universes where no human pressed the button.

New comment by badRNG in "If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?"

badRNG — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:19:40 +0000

> Speaking of vibe coding in archaic languages

Well, I think we can say C is archaic when most developers write in something that for one isn't C, two isn't a language itself written in C, or three isn't running on something written in C :)

New comment by badRNG in "LLM Inevitabilism"

badRNG — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:57:48 +0000

The OG ChatGPT released less than three years ago. Prior to that, 20 lines of code would seem wild. Does anyone remember leetcode?

New comment by badRNG in "Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers"

badRNG — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:09:49 +0000

I can't find anyone else reporting on this.

New comment by badRNG in "Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance"

badRNG — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:43:55 +0000

To be very clear, the title refers to nuclear energy, which may not be immediately obvious given the current geopolitical climate.

New comment by badRNG in "Words flagged in search of current NSF awards"

badRNG — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:08:16 +0000

> Reading comprehension is shocking, not just in you but most people here. The post just said "can cause a grant to be pulled". That's entirely consistent with this list being a screening filter and somebody will look at what the grant/application is actually for.

Both the post and the comment you are replying to used the term "flagged". Best I can tell, they aren't claiming what you seem to think they are claiming.

New comment by badRNG in "Bayesian Epistemology (2022)"

badRNG — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:02:22 +0000

> we expect, with Popper, that all our best theories of fundamental physics are going to be superseded eventually

This inductive case against scientific knowledge should only serve to decrease our second-order credence in the proposition that we have assigned the highest credence to the scientific hypotheses that most closely correspond with reality. It does nothing to change the fact that, conditional on evidence we currently have, we may very well have correctly proportioned credence.

New comment by badRNG in "Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to track driving behavior: lawsuit"

badRNG — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:13:27 +0000

This doesn't seem possible to me.

How can you correlate a Life360 or GasBuddy user with an Allstate subscriber with any level of certainty?

New comment by badRNG in "Syria flooded with Pepsi and Pringles as rulers open economy"

badRNG — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:33:28 +0000

I'd rather worry about eating too many Calories than too few.

New comment by badRNG in "Android now allows apps to block sideloading"

badRNG — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 22:52:04 +0000

Couldn't they just patch out that check?

New comment by badRNG in "I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers"

badRNG — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 14:33:13 +0000

Is dropping a hat really comparable to chugging a whole bottle of liquor?

New comment by badRNG in "Jan: An open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs on the desktop"

badRNG — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 20:59:55 +0000

Looks like they are based out of Singapore

New comment by badRNG in "YouTube now requires to label their realistic-looking videos made using AI"

badRNG — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:49:11 +0000

It gives YouTube the justification to remove videos that may not be technically rule-breaking otherwise. Though, I do imagine proving that a video is AI generated will quickly become functionally impossible.

New comment by badRNG in "Prostate cancer includes two different evotypes"

badRNG — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 20:52:51 +0000

I think the average person can safely call "the use of neural networks in statistical work" AI.

New comment by badRNG in "Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf]"

badRNG — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:38:17 +0000

I'm fairly certain in the US you cannot legally consent to being killed.

New comment by badRNG in "Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero"

badRNG — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 14:18:02 +0000

It seems like the most straightforward path here is to ban auto thefts all together.

New comment by badRNG in "How AI is changing gymnastics judging"

badRNG — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 13:49:56 +0000

> I wonder if having some intrinsic randomness to the AI model would help to mitigate this problem?

This would result in identical performances resulting in different scores with the difference being artificially arbitrary.

New comment by badRNG in "Oklahoma receives first "Made in Oklahoma" EV"

badRNG — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 17:42:09 +0000

What I think you are interpreting as a thick pillar is actually a window. It looks like a pillar in the vehicles on the sides, but is transparent in the middle vehicle.

New comment by badRNG in "Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (2019)"

badRNG — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 22:58:38 +0000

Seems somewhat analogous to draw by repetition in Chess

New comment by badRNG in "I worked in Amazon HR and was disgusted at what I was seeing with PIP plans"

badRNG — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:38:32 +0000

There's no grounds for a lawsuit, not in the states. They can legally fire you for nearly any reason or for no reason whatsoever. All PIPs do is help the company fend off claims that the employee was fired for an illegal reason (e.g., for being a member of a protected class, retaliation, etc.)