I have some time on my hands and would be interested in doing something meaningful with it. Ideally learn / research about AI alignment or related topics. Dunno where to start though, beyond just reading posts. Anyone got pointers? Got a background in theoretical / computational physics, and I know my way around the scientific Python stack.

I'm pretty sure "Humans, please ignore this post" wasn't serious, and this article is mainly for humans.

Or their mom might be a hacker.

Incidentally, there are many cases where I don't care about my username at all and have to come up with something. I'd find it acceptable if they'd just give me a number and a password, or let me register just with a password (perhaps provided by them?), maybe plus e-mail.

Exactly - the term's quite loosely defined.

How do you know meetups all meetups attract "losers"? What is - to you - the defining characteristic of such "losers"? How certain are you that your personal experience with one kind of meetup generalizes well to all meetups? How do you know there are fewer or no losers elsewhere, e.g. on the internet?

This is a good place to post your poem.

Thank you for this post. I have made similar experiences, and feel much more dim-witted when speaking in person (especially compared to others).

Upvoted for changing your mind.

Is ) not sufficient?

Just in case you're not aware, this is a double-comment. I've seen this with another comment of yours recently. Probably happens when one double-clicks the comment button.