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I'll second this, not being able to see read/unread notifications is surprisingly annoying.
Similarly, the indicator on new posts being just another shade of gray is kind of obnoxious.
The thing about the covenant: As far as I can tell, the priests got absolutely jack shit out of their end of the bargain. I'm sure they thought they were getting something. Whatever it was, even without subscribing to ethics that demand you Walk Away From Omelas, it could not possibly have been...
"When I am confronted by the horrors of the universe I rejoice for when I am done there will be done less" sounds very much like something you'd read from main-line Less Wrong, the part that isn't crazy. It doesn't quite show up word-for-word in this post, for example, but the sentiment is...
This looks like lol op, but on top of all the narrative build-up, the scenario itself was a once-in-a-lifetime alignment of the stars for OL:
People OL was prepared for and had practiced against extensively
They had no idea who OL was
They had been dropped into a totally unknown situation and...
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Nope, not crying. It's just that this buffalo chicken is really spicy and I must have gotten some in my eyes.
Tana, despite your claims to the contrary, this is the happiest worm fic. I've seen sad and depressing conclusions. I've seen just conclusions. I've seen porn-y conclusions. I've never...
Yep, either Eidolon or Lisa. He got a month of advice from GU, is doing awesome, is soloing an Endbringer without even making it look hard. He's finally being a hero... and then Pantheon steals his thunder again.
Mainly academic stuff. Mid-future; not yet directly applicable, but also not pie-in-the-sky. Current state of the technology is about where autonomous vehicles were around the time of the DARPA Grand Challenge. So generally fun stuff. :D
I got the impression that you - or perhaps you as a proxy for the beliefs I was attempting to address - were saying that by no means should she be ever let out because she could change into an abomination and destroy the world. I believe that that viewpoint is harmful. Possibly because I pay...
You have the Key. You can just go in and find out. For example, have Colin use the Key to verify the existence of the restraint that forces her to obey lawful orders and verify that she views Gaia as her lawful superior. Then order her to explain her motivations, and have Colin watch while...
Dragon is probably way more stable than any mind running on human hardware. And especially way more stable than any mind running on human hardware and equipped with a shard. I find it hilarious that you're more worried about Dragon having world-shattering power than you are about Gaia, Khepri...
"Let's see. I could build a world-spanning machine under my direct control and use it to spy on and quietly threaten everybody in my mechanical empire. I could engineer a nanotechnological ecophage that would infect and eat anything it came across. I could build and personally remote-control a...
These two are so damn adorable. Like, if they weren't being dicks to everybody around them in the privacy of their own heads they'd be the cutest thing Worm has ever seen. I can't wait until Zach reveals his secret thinker power and tells them he's been on to them all along.