I, for one, welcome surveillance.

/whoosh/

yup

Have you read "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software"? I enjoyed it.

Fantastic recommendation! This is a great book (and the second edition is on my shelf).

> That's a lot for an hour!

If you still handcraft each personally, that's keine kleine Klein problem.

He hasn't for quite a while afaik, way too time intensive to build by hand so he (at least last I saw 10 years ago) had a big batch made by a glass blowing company.

Yep, I no longer make regular Klein bottles. I'm a so-so glassblower. (Indeed, most glass workers would consider me a good physicist. Physicists would say that I'm a good computer jock. Computer people think that I know a lot about math. Mathematicians feel that I'm a good glassblower.

Keep 'em all guessing.

Someone in there thinks you're an excellent fork lift roboticist as well

That was really fun; I was pleasantly surprised with 43,165. Trusting intuition worked well.

Oh nicely done! There was me thinking I'd done well with 38,332 / 50,000. It'd be nice if the site itself showed how well you did relative to others but I can't see anything like that, maybe I'm missing it.

The same can be said about plain old I.

> IMPOSSIBLE to build an AI detector that works longterm

    return Math.random() < Math.pow(0.5, (new Date()).getFullYear() - 2023) ? "Not AI" : "AI";

This should increase in accuracy over time.

It turns out that "return 'AI'" is a better strategy when the probability is above 50%: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/msJA6B9ZjiiZxT6EZ/lawful-unc...

Good point. Here's a patch:

    Math.random = () => 1;

> struck

"went on strike"

When are they going to go ahead and just rebrand as ClosedAI?

I was hoping for a program that listens for dog barking and writes a timestamp log of every segment of active barking. Once you collect a couple weeks of data you can send it to the county.

The neighborhood was .3 acre lots with houses crammed fence to fence. We were on top of each other. The outdoor tv was a HUGE dick move that is becoming more and more accepted.

Not accepted, but because ACAB, what can we do?

I'd love to plug up all the noisy exhaust systems on every car and truck around me, but then I'd get in trouble despite ordinances basically saying, "maintain your exhaust system as to not be disturbing to others."

If cops aren't going to enforce this and citizens aren't allowed to, then what?

I don't know, snitches do get stitches after all. But writing software just to do snitching on a massive, analytical scale does fit the nerd stereotype though.