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Lol. Thank you. To make it look like fanart I should have probably specified something about it, because these currently look more like photos of LARPing.

Many thanks and I appreciate the effort. If it's not overtaxing your generosity can we then also attempt the following tweaks?

"Highly detailed and beautiful digital art of a fantasy character: A 13-year-old girl with red-blonde hair, in a forest. The girl is wearing a deer-mask with short antlers, a cape over a jersey, and a witch's hat. The girl is holding a hockey stick. Every branch of every tree has a bright ribbon tied to it. The cape rests atop her shoulders and falls over one arm like a musketeer's cape."

Many thanks in advance!

7Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
Ooooh! Yeah, definitely much more fantasy fan art style. 

I gather we're allowed to suggest prompts we wish to see? Here's a prompt trying to create fanart for my favourite web serial, Pale by Wildbow:

"A girl with red-blonde hair, in a forest. The girl is wearing a deer-mask with short antlers, a cape over a jersey and shorts, and a witch's hat. The girl is holding a hockey stick. Every branch of every tree has a bright ribbon tied to it. The cape rests atop her shoulders and falls over one arm like a musketeer's cape. The witch's hat and the cape are both navy-blue."

3Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
The AI is sort of trying to make this photographs, but I am judging that none of them are in danger of being photorealistic faces... 

There are no reader comments -- this is a "glowfic", the whole thread is the story. Each "comment" is a portion of the story. You need read it all. 

You do need pay attention to the usernames because they often identify which character is speaking (e.g. "Keltham", or "Carissa Sevar"), and an approximation of their facial expression via the graphics.

(The post times and history of each comment are not important in-story, the "history" are just edits made to that story portion, the post times are just when it was posted)

One of the authors is "Iarwain" (who is EY) the other author is "lintamande".

In your other post, the only reason you indicated to not press the button is that other people would still be asleep and not have experienced the thing.

As such, it feels as if the "trick" by your friend just sped up what would have almost certainly happened anyway: you eventually pressing the button and nuking the site. It'd just have happened later in the day.

1Chris_Leong
That was a poorly written post on my part. What I meant was that I was open to argument either way ("Should I press it or not?). I had decided that regardless of whether I pressed it or not I would at least wait until other people had a chance to wake up, as I thought it'd be boring for people if they woke up and the site was already nuked. So it wasn't my only reason - I hadn't even really thought about it too much as I was waiting for more comments. Even though it was poorly written, I'm surprised how many people seem to have misunderstood it as I would have thought it was clear enough as I asked the question.

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2morganism
Artificial data give the same results as real data — without compromising privacy http://news.mit.edu/2017/artificial-data-give-same-results-as-real-data-0303 "“Once we model an entire database, we can sample and recreate a synthetic version of the data that very much looks like the original database, statistically speaking,” says Veeramachaneni. “If the original database has some missing values and some noise in it, we also embed that noise in the synthetic version… In a way, we are using machine learning to enable machine learning.”
0morganism
SRI Report Independently Verifies Brillouin LENR Reactions (report included) https://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/thread/5552-sri-report-independently-verifies-brillouin-lenr-reactions-report-included/ https://www.lenr-forum.com/attachment/4676-sri-technical-report-kopia-pdf/ Brillouin’s LENR technology includes a proprietary method of electrical stimulation of nickel metal conductors using its Q-Pulse™ control system. The process stimulates the system to produce LENR reactions, which generate excess heat. Other than the heat output, there are no (zero) toxic or CO2 bi-product emissions of any kind.

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0gwern
https://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2018/02

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0gwern
https://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2018/01

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1James_Miller
I've started creating a series of YouTube videos on the dangers of artificial general intelligence.

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1Torello
Audiobooks I completed in 2017 Books I completed in 2017 My favorite books I read this year

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0Joy
Not a specific piece, but a great resource if you appreciate animation. https://mobile.twitter.com/_ibcf_?lang=en Spotlights the obscure, and highlights the quirkier details of what’s mainstream.

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1Audere
The Philosopher's Polar North (can also be translated as The Philosopher's Apex) [Nhato Remix] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc4zZ43R9o0 Turn on captions to see the lyrics and their English translation. The song says a lot about searching for truth and knowledge that I find powerful. Some excerpts from the translated lyrics: Accepting even those facts I have denied, <before time melts my memories away> I absentmindedly lift “truth” from an uneven distribution <as a god might guide fate> Even my current knowledge is still uncertain, swaying,  so with my current knowledge I should be able to keep seeking When I break out of this shell I’ll reach out over everything Everything in this world is in my mind; everything, is being drawn in Everything that has been represented with a model has form,  in this infinite space inside my mind, can move freely Everything is recorded in the observer’s eyes Even the deficiencies in my imagination can be immediately supplemented by literature,  and so my descent continues – Until the endless simulations converge into one if there must exist “things that cannot be proven”, I’ll just know everything there is
0Kallandras
I've recently begun listening to a few bands that are new to me - Parov Stelar, Tape Five, Caravan Palace, and Goldfish. I have found the upbeat tempo of electro-swing to be helpful when I want to improve my mood.
0gwern
https://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2017/12

You're using words like "reputation", and understand how having a reputation for one-boxing is preferable, when we're discussing the level where Omega has access to the source code of your brain and can just tell whether you'll one-box or not, as a matter of calculation.

So the source-code of your brain just needs to decide whether it'll be a source-code that will be one-boxing or not. This isn't really about "precommittment" for that one specific scenario. Omega doesn't need to know whether you have precomitted or not, Omega isn't putti... (read more)

1Lumifer
First, in the classic Newcomb when you meet Omega that's a surprise to you. You don't get to precommit to deciding one way or the other because you had no idea such a situation will arise: you just get to decide now. Why would you make such a decision if you don't expect to meet Omega and don't care much about philosophical head-scratchers? And, by the way, predicting your choice is not a violation of causality, but believing that your choice (of the boxes, not of the source code) affects what's in the boxes is. Second, you are assuming that the brain is free to reconfigure and rewrite its software which is clearly not true for humans and all existing agents.

It is not compatible to believe your actions follow deterministically, and still talk about decision theory from a first-person point of view,

So it's the pronouns that matter? If I keep using "Aris Katsaris" rather than "I" that makes a difference to whether the person I'm talking about makes decisions that can be deterministally predicted?

Whether someone can predict your decisions has ZERO relevancy on whether you are the one making the decisions or not. This sort of confusion where people think that "free will" means &qu... (read more)

2Lumifer
Old and tired, maybe, but clearly there is not much consensus yet (even if, ahem, some people consider it to be as clear as day). Note that who makes the decision is a matter of control and has nothing to do with freedom. A calculator controls its display and so the "decision" to output 4 in response to 2+2 it its own, in a way. But applying decision theory to a calculator is nonsensical and there is no free choice involved.

Makes sense, I'm betting many members of the wider rationalist community have seen their assets increase because of the significant rise of Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies this year.

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0morganism
Courtroom science primers launched today https://royalsociety.org/news/2017/11/royal-society-launches-courtroom-science-primers

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