Possibly the only thing more annoying than Yudkowsky are the anonymous online people who think they figured him out. Many of them are in these threads.

https://hpmor.com/ for anyone else with delusions of literary grandeur.

Content = ecstacic when you compare it to the general public these days.

Possible, I guess, although I have 32GB RAM + 8GB swap and I wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary at the time.

Both the hardware and software (fedora 42 running cosmic desktop) are kinda cutting edge, so I think an honest crashing bug is more likely.

Fun coincidence, when I was about to write a supporting comment to this thread, my Fedora 42 running on X1 Carbon hard froze without any apparent reason and I had to hard reboot it.

For me Linux surpassed the Windows desktop experience in 1996 and even though Windows 2000 was a pretty good upgrade, I don’t think it has surpassed desktop Linux yet. Windows 10 was not bad either, but now that has gone mostly downhill whereas Linux has merely plateaud at worst or has been improving slowly at best.

If you’re not humblebragging, perhaps you oughta get a Linux-preinstalled laptop like System76.

If you were humblebragging, check out https://fedoraproject.org/workstation/ and get the Plasma edition.

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Because it’s dangerous to be outside without being inside.

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What kind of system guarantees becoming rich from hard work? I don’t know of any.

Well, in a democracy it’s important that people who want this can try to make it happen via official procedure, which this is.

That said, the people who want this are assholes and probably in bed with Russia.

The main potential problem of democratic socialism is that it can fuel a sort of populist policies, where politicians promise all kinds of benefits to the voters. The politicians who promise and implement those things only get the benefits (votes and power) and never have to answer for the problems (e.g. inefficient and expensive structures that were perhaps not needed at all) they create. It’s always the cleanup crew (the politicians who are responsible and implement austerity) who get the blame.

Like almost all things in this world, democratic socialism can also be great if it’s implemented well. For instance, well-funded and well-planned public schools can be awesome for the whole society, both the poor, the rich, and everyone in between. But that requires skill, intelligence, hard work, all of which are scarce resources.

Undertale and Deltarune.

Dwarf Fortress.

Ultima 1-7 and 8 partially.

I don’t know about you, but the amount of self-control I have varies hugely during a typical month. So when I have more self-control, I can choose to help myself during the times when I have less.

I suppose the hit on Bin Laden couldn’t have been launched without significant presence in Afghanistan. Why you stayed there after that though was weird. That seems to have been Obama’s mistake.

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I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone to go watch the movie Sinners. Reward the artists.

More than many people did, though. Including you.

That would practically guarantee boots on the ground in Iran and a regime change in 3 months.

Iran’s leaders are dumb, but I don’t think they’re that dumb.

edit hate to repeat a standard antisemitic trope, but Israel would have a big reason to fake that