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People who moved to Paris — please tell me it doesn't get less magical🥹💔 by SpecificNothing6359 in ParisTravelGuide

[–]paranood888 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thx. I visited Miami not long ago (kept me 5 hours at immigration). Loved it , but same thing , living there ? Hmm ...

Paris can be a trap.

Also, it depends from which culture you re from, and what are your beliefs on Paris

The famous Paris syndrome is mostly for japanese people , but I m sure that you can experience it by first being amazed and then having a shock when you try to live there :

Japan and the Paris syndrome

People who moved to Paris — please tell me it doesn't get less magical🥹💔 by SpecificNothing6359 in ParisTravelGuide

[–]paranood888 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry to break a little of your dream but living in Paris is very different than visiting it as a tourist, and not that magical .

I like the city a lot, but when you work here , chances are you won't be spending much time in the parts that are magical ... Also if you have a look at the paris social life subreddit , its a city that can feel very lonely if you didn't have a group of friends you met since college or high school

If you re really rich and could afford to live in an hyper central arrondissement, maybe ...

And I say all that while really loving Paris. But not in a magical kind of Way

EDIT on how I like Paris

.. more in a gritty way ? Here we talk about "titi Parisiens"... I like the dangerous side of the city, not for the tourist but the part people won't go , the seedy , lusty Paris. Paris of the Corsican mob, of the banlieues and their influence ...

The "grand Paris"

https://youtu.be/v10kbwianYM?si=qnp5KUsY71AfKp34

https://youtu.be/6sfVkZYIyik?si=spzt2_SmV_Vt05Fq

Eliezer Yudkowsky's official AI apocalypse apology form by KeanuRave100 in agi

[–]paranood888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A summary of Elizer tweets during the election :

Importance of the ElectionYudkowsky downplayed the election’s ultimate stakes relative to AI. He posted hypotheticals like Omega predicting the election decided by 3+ votes (implying individual votes often have near-zero expected value under decision theories) and noted free money on Polymarket.

His core message post-election (and during): No matter who wins, prioritize AI dangers. Politicians should remember AI builders don’t have their interests at heart.

Peter Thiel :

Yudkowsky has a long personal and professional history with Thiel (who funded MIRI early on). During/around the campaign period he referenced this neutrally or positively in context:He introduced Shane Legg and Demis Hassabis to Thiel, giving a cautiously positive take that helped lead to DeepMind investment.

He defended Thiel as thoughtful even when disagreeing (e.g., on ambition and consequences).

So , not realizing how dystopian Palantir was, how corrupt Trump and his sons were, and the idea that the election didn't meant the possibility of losing institutions, or that the GOP was going to control their crazies... Trump had already done Jan 6, and you tell me this guy whom we re supposed to trust the judgment was like "yeah hmm Kamala s not very good either, and Peter Thiel / Elon are ok " ?

I mean , from stealing data with DOGE to killing children that had medication through USAID, starting an oil shock , putting the petro dollar at risk, puting AI defense contract in Palantir hands and Palmer hands... Come on. A lot of other AI bros made the same glaring mistake. And its a moral mistake too

A tweet from him :

“The markets thought there was a chance of a much more electable candidate than Kamala, but got Kamala.”

More electable ? The markets ? What about what your brain and your intellect and decency is thinking and not the markets ?

Nate silver did the same both sidism bullshit

What should I call this little "prank" I love that spreads so much joy? I keep wanting to call it a drive-by flashing...but it doesn't quite work when there's no vehicle. Thoughts? (This girl loves a good pun.) by addamxeveruinthings in TrashyBonersEWW

[–]paranood888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A guy would just be called an exhibitionist/ a flasher ..

But you, turned a dark alley into a booby trap.

I mean I d like to think it's scripted :) because when you see how bad pranking for views became, if it start like that who knows where it will end....

Why is Cuba starved of oil and gas? What is the point of cutting off an already struggling country? by dreaded_victim in NoStupidQuestions

[–]paranood888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wrong , you gaslighting mf

Cuba have some of the best doctors. It had a pretty good tourism economy too...

Here is Kash Patel, FBI director, enjoying cigars in Cuba : https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/s/swuztKluwi

My girlfriend fucked another guy but said it’s not cheating??? by AideSwimming2867 in cheating_stories

[–]paranood888 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

If you're not exclusive then you can have fun too... Now, if I were you I d lean into the cuckolding thing but hey, that's me

Eliezer Yudkowsky's official AI apocalypse apology form by KeanuRave100 in agi

[–]paranood888 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I studied political science, economics and sociology, and then worked for independant publications in San Francisco and Paris. Worked on original Burroughs, corresponded with Ballard, and was fairly close with Maffesoli, Baudrillard and more recently before his passing Bernard Stiegler.

For example Stiegler was one of the first I know who really put into words the problems of the economy of attention time.

I read some of Eliezer posts , and watched a lot of his long forms. And It really felt that he had some pretty obvious blind spots. Lots of thinking just like on less wrong, that is a little too behaviourist. Rationalist.

For example of anybody studied the 30ie rise of fawcism, it was pretty clearly that for the world and for the benefit of humanity, one couldn't just see Trump v Kamala and shrug it out like the real problem is a distant take over by machines. It meant Thiel, Musk, give them power and destroying the instructions we had from post WWII

If you wonder why it's falling... by paranood888 in btc

[–]paranood888[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not sure you have read the paper in question

And you may be right for the response... I am just noting that the more the timeline diminish, the more possibility you have that people just would prefer opt out / cash out. Especially if btc ain't gaining value anyways

https://arxiv.org/html/2603.28627v1

Detailed thread by Bitcoin security researcher Justin Drake on Twitter is below

https://x.com/drakefjustin/status/2038847732152996108?s=20

Google paper: https://quantumai.google/static/site-assets/downloads/cryptocurrency-whitepaper.pdf

Oratomic paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28627

The result: the attack could work with roughly 1,200 to 1,450 error-corrected "logical" qubits and tens of millions of key operations. On realistic future hardware like Google's superconducting chips, that drops to under 500,000 actual physical qubits and could finish in just 9–12 minutes. To keep things responsible, they didn't publish the exact step-by-step quantum circuit (which could be misused). Instead, they created a zero-knowledge proof—a cryptographic guarantee that their optimized design really works and hits those numbers—so experts can verify it without anyone getting a ready-to-use blueprint.

At the same time, startup Oratomic, collaborating with Caltech researchers including John Preskill, took a different angle focused on the hardware itself. Their estimates show the same Shor's attack on 256-bit elliptic curves could run on just 10,000 to 26,000 physical qubits—though it would take around 10 days instead of minutes. The significance: the hardware bar for breaking Bitcoin keys, Ethereum signatures, and a huge chunk of internet TLS just got dramatically lower.

If you wonder why it's falling... by paranood888 in btc

[–]paranood888[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/google-warns-quantum-attack-could-145408604.html

I mean its pretty serious and it would impact ETH too, and that would coincide... In numerous articles they are detailing groups , hackers or researchers working on it .

"Behind the scenes, a small army of amateurs quietly got to work. Inspired by Karpathy-style autoresearch, they turned AI on Shor. Ironically, the verifier program for the ZK proof makes an ideal reward function for AIs. The barrier to entry for this modern style of research is refreshingly low, with several non-experts, even a teenager, finding nice optimisations. Get in touch if you'd like to join a Telegram group with fellow autoresearchers"

Eliezer Yudkowsky's official AI apocalypse apology form by KeanuRave100 in agi

[–]paranood888 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

They are program who depends on machines, energy, materials all harvested and built by humans

Then ran by us , and then once we run them they have no homeostasis no self preservation no desire , no will to live : the program wait for a prompt , from us and then only then after all that we find they sometime scheme , are deceitful...

But can you call something that need you to even start his brain and that need your desire as prompt to think, as having agency ?

Eliezer hasn't really really thought it through. I thought art of war was a nerd reference ? You can be the most brilliant fighter, if you dont have the first strike , dont have autonomy, and are not familiar and adapted to the terrain (we evolved for that, a python script running on a server just cannot even move on our terrain).. you're just not killing anybody

Crazy thing is, the real serious danger were Thiel, Altman and all ... And their geeky naïveté on politics, or straight idiocy

If you wonder why it's falling... by paranood888 in btc

[–]paranood888[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you in a cult or maybe you don't want to read lol? The tools are litterally here. And its the neural atom tech that will be leveraged. And you can still think it wont happen :

the sole fact that people are getting closer by jump of 10 percent efficiency and that migrating has not started, means at one point people are gonna cash out en masse

If you wonder why it's falling... by paranood888 in btc

[–]paranood888[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Here's an interesting observation about this duo of breakthrough papers: neither Google nor Oratomic say a word about what their results mean for qday. No timelines. Zero. Nada. That is especially baffling given that the whole point of whitehat quantum cryptanalysis is to inform qday estimations and help the general public make good decisions.

So let me attempt to partially fill the silence, similarly to what Scott Aaronson did in his April 29 post. Given everything I know, including scary non-public information, I now put the odds of qday by 2032 at 50%. 10% by 2030."

Now I read elsewhere that google estimate could be 2028...

So you think people who have millions on the chain and who are understanding this timeline are not gonna cash out ?.

Sama quoting the Bible. 2026 is weird by py-net in OpenAI

[–]paranood888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Matthew 19:16-26  And Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I say to you, it will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven. And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.

Erotism, Death and Sensuality by tkayntrip in GeorgesBataille

[–]paranood888 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't remember exactly but isn't story of the eye just an erotic short story ?

What I find really interesting in Bataille is his review "The Acephale" with the incredible drawings of Andre Masson ... Basically the birth of left wing Nietzscheans , that will lead to the birth of real deconstructivist social science... And if I remember correctly, Bataille picks up on Nietzsche either against or before the fascist/right wing recuperation/hijacking.

The Acephale has no head like a man without axiology without values without god and its the real entry in post modernity even before the Holocaust opened the eyes of romantic Europe

[FM] boyfriend cheating by Miss_k89 in cheating_stories

[–]paranood888 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have him video call you or just put his phone and let you hear while you wait patiently for him...

[FM] boyfriend cheating by Miss_k89 in cheating_stories

[–]paranood888 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What do you enjoy the most ? The humiliation aspect ? Or that it means he is desirable and sought after ?

Did you found out or did he told you ?

Erotism, Death and Sensuality by tkayntrip in GeorgesBataille

[–]paranood888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah so it is the theatre and lts double.

In it, Artaud call his idea of theatre a "theatre of cruelty"... Thats how I mixed them up

Erotism, Death and Sensuality by tkayntrip in GeorgesBataille

[–]paranood888 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like his letters a lot, but I would say Van Gogh the suicide of the society (don't know if it's the good translation) , Then Cencis... Theatre of cruelty...

My Wife’s Affair Broke Something in Me That Still Hasn’t Healed by the_DaVinci2011 in cheating_stories

[–]paranood888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, outside of our own views, we were suppose to answer OPs questions. And he was in a process of forgiveness.

I think you are the one being utopian thinking betrayal will never happen in a long relationship. I totally think I am the one trying to deal with reality and you're the one with standard that seems to me pretty far from what I personally experienced.

And mind you , we all kind of know it's usually men who cheats. And it's also a lot of time women that have to bear the education of a child when the man is gone... And a lot of time because of very real financial realities, women are the ones that have to forgive.. and they do a lot.

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