Nice meeting you guys. I have setup a new meetup for two months from now, if interested: https://www.lesswrong.com/events/ec4HDtDgdbPiH5Nzf/victoria-bc-canada

I have also created a discord server: https://discord.gg/3jqHyYKGfe

I have an outdoor booth to the right of the front door. Am in a black shirt and jeans. 

Sounds good. Changed to 3PM. 

Any days work for you? Is just you, me and Eric so we might want to just pick a new time/date we can all make. Eric has time any time tomorrow. We could also do it on a weekday. 

I am unsure how free the average Chinese person is, nor how to weigh freedom of speech with certain economic freedoms and competent local government, low crime, the tendency of modern democracies to rent seek from the young in favour of the old, zoning laws, restriction on industrial development, a student loan system that seems to be a weird form of indenture. I do come from a country with rather strict hate speech laws. And we do not, in fact, have freedom of speech by any strict definition. And this is a policy American elites in and out of government strongly approve of. 

I ask out of relative ignorance of what life in China is like for the average Chinese person, but with a slight suspicion that we might be defining our western notion of 'freedom' in such a way that ignores the many ways we are restricted and extracted from, and ways in which the average Chinese may be more free. 

It's very clear the CCP has committed far larger crimes against its people in living memory. But it is also a very different organization than it was at its worst. 

I think the question is still worth asking. And the argument worth justifying. 

it's good though! but yeah a bit cringe, as all the best things are. 

Update: Claude 3.6 is clearly capable of writing jokes. Even if I tell it to write jokes a maximally-alien creature would write if they lived in a maximally alien environment it now seems able to reliably produce strings I qualify as jokes.

interesting reading this 3 years later. I occasionally paste a bug report directly into cursor and provided I am right about which file the bug is in, it often one-shots them. i remain confused about why rsi isn't critical by now.