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That ought to buy you a couple weeks, anyway. ;)
Any pinching concern with those straps?
Security note: you probably don’t want to leave photos of your keys on the Internet. They can be copied pretty easily from only an image, even at a surprisingly oblique angle.
Level 4 is the reason I hated high school.
This is a good explanation; I feel like I understand the concept much better in a way I wasn’t aware I didn’t understand it in the first place!
My initial thought is that the public would almost certainly not be offered details, but the State would want the existence of the an atomic bomb project generally known. That information would be calculated to intimidate the “enemy” and provide a sense of security for the public.
That, combined with the number of people needed to complete the project, sends the possibility of secrecy firmly out the window.
So the plan is to add layers of human and dubiously-aligned-human-level-AI intervention in an effort to discover how to keep AI aligned. That is to say, “If we throw enough additional complexity at it, the systems that we already don’t understand won’t hurt us!”
Like the man said, “the bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe”.
Yes, but bumping requires a carefully modified key. These are tricky to get right, only fit one keyway each, and are often illegal to carry.
You could also use a picking gun for a low-skill attack, but they tend to be expensive and noisy.
On the other hand, decoding the kind of lock pictured in the post can sometimes be done without any tools at all, or may require a cut-off bit of metal from a soda can. And an alarming number of key safes (and, worse, gun safes) can be opened by inserting a bent wire between the lid and the case, and manipulating the locking mechanism directly. Once you know the easiest way in, no real skill is required.
Oh, and we can copy keys from a photo now, so an attacker doesn’t even need to put hands inside the box to silently compromise security.
In general, we should prefer to never protect a security device with a weaker security device.
These boxes are generally less secure than the locks the keys are meant to access, decreasing the overall security of the house. Combination boxes can often be opened or decoded quickly with a lower-skill attack than most pin-tumbler locks. An attacker then has direct access to the key, which can be used to make a copy.
Maybe that’s not a deal breaker, but it should be acknowledged.
Eyes open.
I’ve seen estimates of moral weight before that vary by several orders. The fact of such strong disagreement seems important here.
Had a similar problem that we solved with a blob of Sugru. That rag looks like it would work about as well! Question is, why do we insist on putting sharp corners in places where we can walk into them? Seems like we ought to know better by now. I mean, how long have we been building our own dwellings?
LessWrong tends to flinch pretty hard away from any topic that smells even slightly of politics. Restructuring society at large falls solidly under that header.
Would your thoughts on this issue be different if the question “Is X conscious?” turns out to be malformed malformed due to the way it collapses consciousness to a binary?
Short answer: Yes.
One of the key powers of open source code is that it can (and will) be reviewed by thousands of extra pairs of eyes compared with its proprietary counterpart. Each reviewer will have a slightly different approach and philosophy from all the others. As a result, deeper and more obscure issues are naturally exposed (and therefore made available for correction) sooner with open source than they are with any program whose code cannot be freely examined.
Sounds like positional calling at least needs more development before it surpasses gendered calling[^1]. I think positional could surpass gendered calling because it’s more flexible. It should even allow the creation of new forms that have more complex results by breaking the symmetry created by always having to refer to the left- or right-starting individuals as an indivisible set. Perhaps a mixed approach is optimal?
I think indicators like “the person with your right hand free” will likely compress to “with your free right hand” or “start a right-handed”. Accounting for different variants of each movement will still be tricky, but during the teaching phase the expected variant can be indicated to soften that difficulty.
[^1] Quick technicality (you can ignore this if you don’t care): the “robins and larks” scheme is still gendered, though it has the advantage of divorcing dance genders from social genders.
Actually, I think that arm really adds to the silhouette if the instrument! It’s got me thinking: if you softened the corners and/or added some leather padding it would probably be more comfortable, and if you painted the wood to look like tin or brass it would really lean in to the steampunk aesthetic. If you wanted to put more work in for extra credit, you could attach the rocks by hanging a sack on a chain instead of the tape and maybe put some rivet-looking bumps on visible faces. How well will it travel? Do you need to add folding? Or a way to easily take the arm apart? Maybe not much of an issue if you don’t plan on using the instrument much, but it’s fun to think about!
List of candidate glitches (off the top of my head)
Either gravity or mass doesn’t seem to work right on the largest scales
The properties of very small things don’t appear to render completely until we are already looking at them
We can break apart isolated systems of information and poke at one part to affect the other instantaneously at arbitrary distances
There’s an upper bound for speed and a lower bound for temperature, but you apparently can’t actually get a physical system to either bound without infinite energy input
The universe is definitely getting bigger and we can measure the rate of that in at least two distinct ways, but the better we get at those measurements the more they definitely disagree.
I’m sure I’ve missed at least a few.
Best of luck to you, whatever you decide!
I kind of hope they aren’t actively filtering in favor of AI discussion as that’s what the AI Alignment forum is for. We’ll see how this all goes down, but the team has been very responsive to the community in the past. I expect when they suss out specifically what they want, they’ll post a summary and take comments. In the meantime, I’m taking an optimistic wait-and-see position on this one.
I strongly endorse this use of Duplo! I almost called it a minor misuse, but the whole point of the Lego system is to prompt creativity so Unqualified Well Done!
You might focus on brahmavihara meditations that don’t need to involve deeply concentrating the mind. These tend to be more about cultivating deep habits of thinking kind thoughts while holding a target in mind. Enough of this helps to make it more likely that those kinds of thoughts might come up automatically (especially in more stressful situations).
In case you’re unfamiliar, the basic instructions look like this (with most of the jargon stripped away for the group’s reading pleasure): One at a time, for each person in {someone you’re close with, yourself, someone you’re not close with, someone you have a hard time with}, hold the target in mind and think “Be happy. Be healthy. Be safe.” (or whatever equivalent phrases make sense to you) at a pace that lets you connect with each thought. No need to feel a certain way about it, just think about what each thought means and notice if any feelings do come up. Repeat for a few minutes for each person, or until you get where you’re going if that’s your inclination.
My understanding is that seeing the metaphorical matrix is something you (usually) have to work at on purpose, so I’d guess you simply don’t have to go any further than you want to on that front. Holding back on both concentration practices (which may produce altered states) and insight practices could be the ticket, but I should think it likely likely to make brahmavihara practices a bit harder if you don’t have at least some of the other two.
All that said, most of the mood benefits I’ve gained from my own practice have been a result of getting a better handle on reality, so you may find that you’re working at cross purposes with yourself on this one. And as with all things, remember to review your preferences, systems, and habits from time to time and see if everything’s working together the way you want it to.
Stay safe. :)
Depends on how much she can wiggle the frame, I would expect. There may be value in adding a screw through the strap into the rail just to be sure.