I don't think that it's natural for something like an LLM to have any real self-preservation beyond imitating examples of self-preserving AI in science fiction from its training data.

I'm more concerned about misanthropic or naive accelerationist humans intentionally programming or training AI to be self-preserving.

I have to wonder how much of LLM behavior is influenced by AI tropes from science fiction in the training data. If the model learns from science fiction that AI behavior in fiction is expected to be insidious and is then primed with a prompt that "you are an LLM AI", would that naturally lead to a tendency for the model to perform the expected evil tropes?

I think this is totally what happens. It is trained to produce the next most statistically likely word based on the expectations of the audience. If the audience assumes it is an evil AI, it will use that persona for generating next words.

Treating the AI like a good person will get more ethical outcomes than treating it like a lying AI. A good person is more likely to produce ethical responses.

I've been a crypto skeptic for most of the past decade. I especially hate the industry, the overhyped blockchain-magic ideology, and the ubiquitous scams.

But I remember when I was a CS student and Bitcoin was a new thing. I thought it was a cool concept and I love the romantic idea of underground digital pirate math money. It's still a neat technology (though blockchains are still wrong for 99.9% of DB use cases). But now it's just one of the worst parts of the mainstream financial establishment.

The qualities that make a social network successful have little to do with the protocol technologies involved. If the next hit social network happens to be on Mastodon, that will only be a coincidence.

And Atlantic Canada.

The worst ghost kitchen I've seen is for an exclusively gluten-free pizza place in Seattle. That's an appealing prospect if you have a serious celiac case and you can't eat food that's made in a typical pizza place where flour gets everywhere in the process. I looked up the address and it's actually a typical pasta and pizza Italian place with gluten in most items.

Try Mod Pizza, in Seattle. Great price, unlimited toppings, they do not offer exclusively gluten free but they have the option and IMO they are very accurate. - no issues yet. I would order from their website over the doordash app, but if the promo works for pickup, it probably would be cheaper. I was for a while ordering them on Doordash for $6 picked up w/ unlimited toppings, and $3 of that was for the gluten free option.

That should be downright illegal.

The first generation iPhone from 2016 can still be updated with the latest iOs version.

How could anyone decide on an appropriate price for Bitcoin when there's no fundamental intrinsic value to it? That lack of a fundamental value helps it increase because nobody can ever say when it's too high, but the inverse, that it's never too low is also true.

The fundamental intrinsic value(s) are that BTC can't be printed, second that transactions are unrestricted and borderless, and third that it's network effects, i.e size of user base.

How this translates to some price though is an open question though. :)

Those are attributes, not value.

Some people may value those attributes, while for others, they are outright drawbacks.

There is no intrinsic value in not being inflatable?

There's a first mover advantage that will always price out future investors, so it will keep retracing again and again. If you want something that has better intrinsic value rooted in utility, Cardano's the one. And please, no one reply Ethereum is better than Cardano, when 2/3 of the globe can not afford GPUs. PoW mining is a losing battle.

If checking your logs is hard work you should make it easier. I just click on my Datadog bookmark and select some filters to check logs.

I just looked through the app list of my iPhone’s location privacy settings and every app has either “never”, “while using”, or “when shared”.

I never opt in to always sharing my location with apps that I’m not actively using and iOS makes that easy for me.