John Paxton

@paxtonjohn
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When I first watched War Games (1983) I thought "wow, so weird, not only they had terrible password management, but their test 'AI' system was directly linked to the prod".

Ha-ha. 

@dhinojosa Good lord, glad you got off it because I and many others would rather have you around thankyouverymuch.
@dhinojosa This is going to be our generation's version of "old COBOL coders are still in demand...."

Thank you for participating in our take-home interview. First, write a program as follows:

- Count from 1 to 100, printing each number.
- If the number is divisible by 3, instead of the number, print “pornography”
- If the number is divisible by 5, instead of the number, print “Tiananmen Square 1989”
- If the number is divisible by both 3 and 5, instead of anything else, print “ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86”

@enwin @dpk Thanks for this!

Half-serious idea for a new law: Whenever there’s a button “not now”, there must also be a button “not ever“.

(I can literally feel how much tech companies don’t want us to say no. This has gotten much worse in recent years.)

@talios @dhinojosa Interesting! Was the difference still about Palantir's morals generally?

@dhinojosa @talios Opportunity for a morally unencumbered fork?

(Because you have so much free time....)

@researchfairy @mhoye I, a commoner, did not know this! It's a great thing to be exposed to. Are there any good, layperson-level explanations of this you'd recommend?