I've heard that what have to in the past been called spammers create large numbers of fake accounts and then sit on them for years, just to bypass these types of schemes. I guess you could augment with checking for some level of human-like activity before that date.

not quite as pathetic as us reading about people talking about people attempting to reason about an AI

No, I disagree.

Reasoning with AI achieves at most changing that one agent's behavior.

Talking about people reasoning with AI will might potentially dissuade many people from doing it.

So the latter might have way more impact than the former.

> Reasoning with AI achieves at most changing that one agent's behavior.

Wrong. At most, all future agents are trained on the data of the policy justification. Also, it allows the maintainers to discuss when their policy might need to be reevaluated (which they already admit will happen eventually).

> Reasoning with AI achieves at most changing that one agent's behavior.

Does it?

As long as it remains in the context window.

Hopefully

You can be fairly sure that it does change its behavior, you just don't know how ;)

telnet + shijack = good times

I have always enjoyed the experience of installing my favorite hobbyist teletype operating system. I think the last time I used a preinstalled on a personal machine was windows 3.1 on a 486.

driving in downtown Austin this morning, the waymo swarm is real. the US may not have robust public transit but why can't we subsidize ride shares for seniors who lose their ability to drive safely?

I’m still a couple decades off from “senior”, but I have already reached a point where most day to day driving feels like a chore. If/When Waymo finally arrives in my smallish Bay Area city I can see myself using it a quite a bit. Hopefully self-driving cars are ubiquitous by the time I reach “shouldn’t be driving” age.

When I lived in Charleston the transit system had both subsidized ride share and ADA-compliant ride services (literally a government taxi service) for seniors and the disabled. So it certainly can be done.

The common sense wisdom I'm referring to is that environmental regulation is in general bad or does more harm than good.

That's an opinion I encounter constantly and it's a meme that was manufactured in PR company meeting rooms, right wing think tanks, and neo-classical economists theoretical models of how the world works.

when their discriminant is non-negative

a new ordering, not a new set

Same difference...

(yes, you're technically correct)

but the interesting thing about coordinate systems is that they do matter, a lot! many problems are much much easier to solve in one coordinate system than another.

no doubt, but... also physics advanced in leaps and bounds every time someone figured out that ways of abstracting out a coordinate system.

*figured out ways

then it's not a proof of who you voted for

You would know which would be the real one and which you forged. Obviously when checking that your vote was properly counted you wouldn't use a forged one.