For all of you night owls 🦉 out there: 💫Word of the day: Opaque
✨Example from the book: “Letting an enemy whose thoughts are totally opaque flee into the cosmos is very dangerous.”
*another correct variant to pronounce it is [opa:k] - this is the variant I actually prefer*
#thedarkforest
✨Example from the book: “Letting an enemy whose thoughts are totally opaque flee into the cosmos is very dangerous.”
*another correct variant to pronounce it is [opa:k] - this is the variant I actually prefer*
#thedarkforest
💫Word of the day: smithereens
✨Example from the book: “it’ll blow the whole carrier to smithereens”
#thedarkforest
✨Example from the book: “it’ll blow the whole carrier to smithereens”
#thedarkforest
A rationalist community (with many prominent AI experts as members) has recently created a thread to ask any questions you might have related to AGI safety, even the ones you might worry seem dumb✨
As always within the lesswrong community – the goal is to share the ideas and knowledge, not to judge others💫
*AGI - Artificial General Intelligence
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wqeStKQ3PGzZaeoje/all-agi-safety-questions-welcome-especially-basic-ones-april-1
As always within the lesswrong community – the goal is to share the ideas and knowledge, not to judge others💫
*AGI - Artificial General Intelligence
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wqeStKQ3PGzZaeoje/all-agi-safety-questions-welcome-especially-basic-ones-april-1
💫Word of the day: shrewdness
✨Example from The Dark Forest:
“Real shrewdness means not letting any shrewdness show. It’s not like in the movies. The truly astute don’t sit in the shadows all day striking a pose. They don’t show off that they’re using their brains. They look all carefree and innocent. Some of them are tacky and mawkish, others careless and unserious. What’s critical is not to let others think you’re a person of interest. Let them look down on you or dismiss you and they won’t feel you’re an obstacle. You’re just a broom in the corner. The pinnacle of this is to make them not notice you at all, as if you don’t exist until the moment right before they die at your hands.”
#thedarkforest
✨Example from The Dark Forest:
“Real shrewdness means not letting any shrewdness show. It’s not like in the movies. The truly astute don’t sit in the shadows all day striking a pose. They don’t show off that they’re using their brains. They look all carefree and innocent. Some of them are tacky and mawkish, others careless and unserious. What’s critical is not to let others think you’re a person of interest. Let them look down on you or dismiss you and they won’t feel you’re an obstacle. You’re just a broom in the corner. The pinnacle of this is to make them not notice you at all, as if you don’t exist until the moment right before they die at your hands.”
#thedarkforest
💫Word of the day: schadenfreude
✨Example from The Dark Forest: “Though his face was indistinct in the darkness, Fitzroy could sense the schadenfreude in Ringier’s expression”
✨Example from The Dark Forest: “Though his face was indistinct in the darkness, Fitzroy could sense the schadenfreude in Ringier’s expression”
🌿🥚Easter in English and Russian
I don’t practice religion myself, but I find it an endlessly mesmerizing cultural phenomenon ⛪️🕍🏛
And Easter is one of the most beautiful holidays of the year, so I love to celebrate it✨ Coming from a religious family I learned a lot about the traditions, and it’s really interesting to compare the names (and, thus, the attitudes) between the cultures:
Resurrection - Воскресение
Holy week - Страстная неделя
Palm Sunday - Вербное воскресенье
Spy Wednesday - Великая среда (день договоренности на 30 серебренников)
Maundy Thursday (Sheer Thursday) - Чистый четверг (день Тайной Вечери)
"Maundy" is an English simplification from the Latin word mandatum, or commandment, reflecting Jesus' words "I give you a new commandment."
The Last Supper - Тайная вечеря
Good Friday - Страстная пятница (день распятия)
Holy (Great) Saturday - Страстная (Великая) суббота (день ожидания воскресения)
Resurrection (Easter) Sunday - Светлое воскресенье
I don’t practice religion myself, but I find it an endlessly mesmerizing cultural phenomenon ⛪️🕍🏛
And Easter is one of the most beautiful holidays of the year, so I love to celebrate it✨ Coming from a religious family I learned a lot about the traditions, and it’s really interesting to compare the names (and, thus, the attitudes) between the cultures:
Resurrection - Воскресение
Holy week - Страстная неделя
Palm Sunday - Вербное воскресенье
Spy Wednesday - Великая среда (день договоренности на 30 серебренников)
Maundy Thursday (Sheer Thursday) - Чистый четверг (день Тайной Вечери)
"Maundy" is an English simplification from the Latin word mandatum, or commandment, reflecting Jesus' words "I give you a new commandment."
The Last Supper - Тайная вечеря
Good Friday - Страстная пятница (день распятия)
Holy (Great) Saturday - Страстная (Великая) суббота (день ожидания воскресения)
Resurrection (Easter) Sunday - Светлое воскресенье
💫Word of the day: reverberate
✨Example from The Dark Forest:
“His every footstep reverberated through the palace halls”
✨Example from The Dark Forest:
“His every footstep reverberated through the palace halls”
💫Word of the day: burgeon
✨Example from The Dark Forest: “After the first two sophons appeared, burgeoning evidence demonstrated that additional sophons were constantly reaching the Solar System and coming to Earth, a process that continues even now.”
✨Example from The Dark Forest: “After the first two sophons appeared, burgeoning evidence demonstrated that additional sophons were constantly reaching the Solar System and coming to Earth, a process that continues even now.”