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I swear to god, if I hear about the proportion of horse bones in an Eneolithic cemetery one more time...

He did spend way more than I think was necessary talking about horse bits, but to be expected since the author seems to have dedicated a large portion of his career to this problem. But horse bits > Network Switching & Routing I Spring Semester exam all day every day 🙂

I am probably wrong but it always astonishes me how a lot of archaeology stands on very thin ice. Here we have various scribbles of lines and a few circles, along with a curious pattern which includes a circle, and the conclusion the excavators seem to have drawn is that they depict wagons. Of course archaeology itself is often frustrating, and one has to read the original papers, still astonishing though.

It occurs to me whenever the paperclip problem is mentioned (along with its many many variations): if you claim that you have built AGI or ASI but your agent is too stupid to realize that by telling it to maximize the production of paperclips, you don't mean that it should slaughter your family to get at the iron in their blood, have you actually built AGI/ASI in the first place?

> It is moderately more relevant to consider the current human average hedonic experience during working hours. Worldwide studies asking respondents how happy they are find that most rate themselves as “quite happy” or “very happy” (averaging 3.1 on a scale from 1 to 4).

Am I in the minority here or was this just a shitty study? I find it unfathomable to be actually "happy" in the workplace beyond the 1st month.