- blue t-shirts and green socks have been added to the default loadout for new hackers, since it's optimal according to AI and costs nothing to the attacker in terms of compute

- there are so many ley line "maps" out there that basically any server placement counts as aligned with at least two, so this one's free also

It seems the villain here could be the Chilean government, for prioritizing the tech economy over the people at a time when it matters most.

Without this idiom, "pacing" usually means walking back and forth restlessly, and is intransitive. Had the slogan been, "pacing around the frontier," it would have set a totally different tone, i.e. "patrolling the border." (Occasionally English speakers will make other constructs like "pace the work" (meaning "spread out a large workload over the allotted time instead of rushing through it") that are transitive but these can be understood as variations on "pace yourself" and are somewhat rarer.)

The sleight of hand is that "pace yourself" has come to be an admonishment against recklessness, not a commitment to any particular speed (or lack thereof.) Thus Anthropic can always claim they are meeting the goal of "pacing the frontier," provided they keep giving themselves gold stars for safety. The slogan itself is equivocation; Dario can tell the public they're going to slow down, while also telling their investors that they're going to be prudent. With enough mental gymnastics they could even claim speeding up is in the best interests of AI safety, without abandoning the slogan.

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They also inexplicably used Windows 95 Paint to draw a rocket ship during the main video demo.

Parsing natural language and solving climate change are downstream of making restaurant reservations.

Universal Paperclips should have been about making restaurant reservations.

It is not unreasonable to call that a 'standard library.' The term 'standard library' is often used to describe built-ins.

The age of the CL core functions is a genuine weakness, specifically in terms of performance. No matter how many libraries you download from Quicklisp, they still have to be implemented in something, and if that something is antiquated or clunky, you're essentially asking the compiler to optimize the entire language out of existence to keep up with the state of the art. The same applies to npm, pip, cargo, and all the rest.

I'm sorry you're scared by em-dashes. They were cool when I was young, alright?

The death of the button occurred on October 21, 2010, when Microsoft released Windows Phone 7 to the international market, beginning the Metro UI era.

Apple wouldn't catch up until September 17, 2014, when they unveiled iOS 7, ditching Steve Jobs's beloved skeuomorphism in favor of Jony Ive's signature flat style.

Google followed up on November 12, 2014, with Android 5.0 Lollipop's introduction of Material Design—arguably the least flat of the three, though it wouldn't stay that way forever.

1. It follows that all of human authorship is pointless since search engines now actively bury content and impede access to written documents. Long Live The New Flesh.

2. Webrings are obviously an artifact of people who hate AI slop and yearn for the simpler days of the older Web, before search engines were effective. Therefore the remark about generated summaries is powerfully sarcastic, as the twain shall never meet. Moreover, Google is no longer fit for purpose, so webrings are an apposite solution to the empty niche of trustworthy discovery mechanisms. Eat The Rich.

Which one the author actually meant depends entirely on their literacy regarding the web revival movement.