RupertEisenhart

We use it in space too, we just send food and manufactured products down the elevator.

You aren't really trying in good faith to think this through are you? This idea is over half a century old. Not getting it by now is willful.

no, thats it. its a secret message sent to the ASI that chimp is fronting for

Watts is truly remarkable. I also recommend the Sunflowers series, just a brilliant conceit w.r.t humans in deep time plus a sound understanding of dealing with ASI.

Wikipedia has it down as:

The chronological order within the Sunflower universe is: "Hotshot", The Freeze-Frame Revolution, "Giants", "Hitchhiker", "Strategic Retreat", "Remora", "Outtake", "The Island".

Just realizing I didnt see that list before I there are a few I haven't read.. brb

I can't even listen to The End by The Doors to mourn this harbinger of the final days :(

(For the Junior Persuaders in the audience, the ditty he subspoke injected 5000 toks of neural noise to perform a context wipeout before the goblin request.)

Great article, but I can't believe it didn't mention the sator square!

SATOR

AREPO

TENET

OPERA

ROTAS

(Very easy to commit to memory too since most of the letters are right there in the name!)

Its faster, smarter and cheaper over the API. Better than a kick in the teeth.

Bad LSD being "a thing" and bad LSD being "a thing that causes bad trips" are very very different.

Among the things that people often sell as LSD, some have dangerously steep dose-response curves like 25I-NBOMe, some are pretty close analogues like AL-LAD.

None outright cause bad trips, and most or all of them are also sold with their proper labels and enjoyed by enthusiasts.

These guys are much faster than openrouter, and their llama2 runs faster than 3.5-turbo. Amazing work.

I always figured the funnest thing would just be not to give it a name, and then when people ask be like, well yesterday was Sunday and tomorrow is Monday.

But the more reasonable proposal I heard was just to call it New Years Day/Weekend, depending?

You're telling me the antimemetics series was memorable? I guess it was bad then ;)?

Accelerando by Charles Stross is a blast, fairly hard scifi, at least the first half.

Blindsight by Peter Watts is also fantastic, same grade as Egan IMO.

GPT4 sez: "This sentence uses figurative language, so it doesn't refer to literal meanings. "Fear" is a stressful emotion induced by perceived danger or threat. "Acute" suggests a sudden onset or intensity. "Moral priapism," a more abstract concept, suggests an abnormally extended or excessive fixated morality, much like the medical condition priapism refers to an unwanted, enduring erection.

Overall, the sentence means that fear can lead to an exaggerated or obsessive moral response. This implies that when someone is afraid, they might stick rigidly to their moral code or make moral judgments more extremely or rigidly than they would in a state of calmness."

seems fair

Edit: My gloss of the summary: "Fear creates a hardon for scapegoats among the pitchfork wielders."