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I am Andrew Hyer, currently living in New Jersey and working in New York (in the finance industry).

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AI #136: A Song and Dance
aphyer9d70

They will show you the money if you use the new app Neon Mobile to show the AI companies your phone calls, which shot up to the No. 2 app in Apple’s app store. Only your side is recorded unless both of you are users, and they pay 30 cents per minute, which is $18 per hour. The terms let them sell or use the data for essentially anything.

 

I feel like this paragraph should at least mention the whole 'they have already accidentally leaked all your data' thing.

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Always Discard Fascist Policies
aphyer17d22

I have not played Secret Hitler specifically, but in similar games (Mafia and Resistance) it is not in fact the case that members of the majority team should immediately share all information, and some of the best plays I've seen have involved members of the majority bluffing the minority.

 

(With that said, everyone following both of the first two bullets on your list above seems like clearly not a Nash equilibrium).

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D&D.Sci: Serial Healers [Evaluation & Ruleset]
aphyer19d20

...but now the winner is a four-and-a-half-way tie.  Just take the credit, it'll be neater.  :P

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D&D.Sci: Serial Healers
aphyer20d40

 

My current accusations of which wizards have been causing[1] disease.

VERY SIMPLE LINKAGES:

  • Babblepox and Chucklepox are both caused by Danny Nova.
  • Scraped Knee and Scraped Elbow are both caused by Zancro.
  • Smokesickness is caused by Nettie Silver.

INTERMEDIATE LINKAGES:

  • Disease Syndrome is caused by Moon Finder.  However, the power of the Moon allows him to strike people with this from a distance: he affects people in sector X+1 or X-1 while he is in sector X.[2]
  • Parachondria and Problems Disorder are caused by Bartholopew, who says 'Pew' while casting spells to strike people with this from a distance: he affects people in sector X+1 or X-1 while he is in sector X.[2]
  • Scramblepox and Bumblepox are caused by both Azeru (at range up to 1) and Danny Nova (just in his own sector).
  • Mildly But Persistently Itchy Throat is caused by Dankon Ground.  It's not occuring in his sector, but it only occurs when he is present in the city, never otherwise.

COMPLEX LINKAGES:

  • Rumblepox is mostly caused by Averill (who leaves behind delayed-action magic that goes off up to 4 days later to spread it), plus a little bit by Danny Nova (just spreading it directly).
  • Gurglepox is caused by Azeru and Cayn: I believe they may be deceiving the monitoring (since both of them claim to always be in Zone [Day+9 mod 12]) every day they are in the city, even if this means skipping zones).  However, it only appears on days when one or the other is in the city.  Perhaps they are hiding behind invisibility or illusions while spreading it?  EDIT: I am withdrawing this accusation, since it turns out that Azeru and Cayn always have at least one of them in the city.  (Also, we already have Azeru nicked on other charges).
  • Disquietingly Serene Bowel Syndrome was caused by a ritual of some kind cast around Day 390 - it did not appear before then, and since then it has appeared regularly (ha) across all Calderia.  I have no proof of who conducted the ritual - I suspect the wizard Gouberi (who formally showed up in the university for the first time the next week), but don't have enough proof to make that a formal accusation.
  • I have no idea where The Shivers come from.
  1. ^

    Obviously, no-one would be this offended by people curing disease for free!  Rather, it seems clear that the Calderians have some customary circumlocutions around speaking of spreading plague, in order to not bring down the attention of the Pallid Princess, She Who Arises In Filth.  We should interpret this whole dataset as about problems caused rather than problems healed, but we shouldn't say that directly to the Calderians.

  2. ^

    There seems to be some pattern in when these mages affect the clockwise sector and when the counter-clockwise, but I don't know what it is.  It might match e.g. phase of moon, but not neatly enough that I can easily work it out.

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The Problem with Defining an "AGI Ban" by Outcome (a lawyer's take).
aphyer20d20

Fusion is also a thing.  A glass of tap water contains (admittedly a very small amount) of deuterium.

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The Problem with Defining an "AGI Ban" by Outcome (a lawyer's take).
aphyer20d33

Would you define 'nuclear weapon' as 'anything not produced in a way that verifiably could not contain any nuclear material'?

(Keep in mind that this would categorize e.g. a glass of tap water as a nuclear weapon.)

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Christian homeschoolers in the year 3000
aphyer23d6-3

To the extent that these things are problems, they are both problems today.  There are insular Amish communities that shut out as much modern culture as they can, and hikkikomori living alone with their body pillows.

AI may exacerbate the existing issues, but on the whole I don't feel like the world is drastically worsened by the presence of these groups.

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Was Barack Obama still serving as president in December?
aphyer25d20

This might be downstream of a deliberate decision by designers.

An LLM has been trained on data through February 2025.

A user asks it a question in June 2025 about 'what happened in May?'

How should the LLM respond?

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D&D.Sci: Serial Healers
aphyer1mo40

(I wish to register that I didn't miss this scenario, and intend to get around to playing it this weekend...it's just that you made the awful indie-game blunder of releasing your game the day after Silksong came out, and my free time has been somewhat spoken for for the past few days).

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Should we align AI with maternal instinct?
aphyer1mo30

In some other world somewhere, the foremost Confucian scholars are debating how to endow their AI with filial piety.

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