lorentz said Boring uses of artificial super intelligence: - eternal peace and prosperity - hostile world domination - genocide Fun uses of artificial super intelligence: - ALL the paperclips - time travel games where you can meet accurate behavioral models of your future self taking into account memories of this same encounter - trolling alien civilizations by broadcasting assembly instructions for it,Our application calls Fucking Microsoft Excel over COM to figure out what letters denote year, month, and day in the current locale. Hint: date format strings are highly standardized so it's always y, m and d,It baffles me that even now people still use ChatGPT to learn new things. LLMs are the antithesis of learning. They're inaccurate so you're left reasoning from flat out incorrect principles, they save you from encountering neighboring information to the answer you seek which is a central mechanic for developing a mental model, and the further away you are from common thought patterns the less their training applies which makes them fundamentally and unfixably terrible at detecting and correcting misunderstandings.,My favourite thing about AoC is the deranged little languages Eric comes up with. don't(),I plainly told the manager responsible for programming that we all use web extensions and there's just no way to effectively prevent programmers from running whatever software they deem necessary, so I'm suggesting to allow them in Windows group policy purely as a matter of efficiency. It has only just occurred me how much I'm relying on his better judgment not to try and crack down on this. Wish me and my team luck.```