I was just told today that ai usage is a factor in hiring and promotion. They didn’t say the AI usage had to be smart.
My boss, to his credit, reportedly said something like “well, if someone is already good at python they might not need as much AI to do a task than someone who isn’t”. I don’t think management cared.
I read a fictional book about the fall of capitalism, and it included a part about the rich people who had tried to settle in orbit. When the people took over, they sent up a message saying no more supplies would be sent up, and then closed the channel. The rich got what they deserved.
Conservatives want small government when it’s stuff they want to do, and big government when they don’t. In-groups to protect, out-groups to bind. Bad people. Cartoon villains.
Glad this judge seems sensible.
People are stupid emotional creatures. They don’t calmly evaluate if the thing is useful or practical. They see the in-group doing it and don’t want to be left out.
This was probably an advantage in pre-history. Our brains haven’t kept up with our changing environment.
Usually they have
So the game might say “get the laptop from the 2nd floor office”. An immersive sim will try to allow as many things as you could imagine doing in real life to achieve this
Contrast this with a more traditional game like Mass Effect. There’s typically going to be like one path, with maybe like one choice. You go in where they want, shoot the baddies, and get the thing.
I think it was heart of stone where I found random soldiers that were like level 40, and were thus inexplicably hard to kill. Kind of sucked. (Tip: setting things on fire does percentage damage, and so scales really well)
Nothing in the game is the kind of execution challenge difficulty I enjoy. It’s not like elden ring where you really have to manage spacing and stamina, consider your weapon, spells, skills. You can mostly just level and upgrade your stuff in witcher3, and win with face rolling.
Which is fine. That’s a valid kind of game. I just lost interest when replaying it because without the story to keep me in, the moment to moment gameplay wasn’t compelling enough
I didn’t really struggle with the controls when I replayed part of it this year. I lost interest because the difficulty starts out a little rough (wolves will kill you) and then a few hours later you’re so strong that even narratively scary things just melt.
I see this sometimes from a distance, even with children. The boys are wild and loose, the girls on a tight leash.
Unfortunately, trying to address that with the sledgehammer of The State is not easy to do safely.
I have a somewhat vivid memory of sprinting through NY Penn Station around midnight to get the last train home, back before I lived in the city. Was a deciding factor in me moving. Had to leave my friend’s Halloween party at like 10 to get the last train.
But public transport won’t make a handful of people rich, so that’s a non starter for many.
And you might have to reckon with living in a society, with other kinds of people. You’d really ask someone to ride a bus with a {slur of your choice} just sitting there, like they’re entitled to peace and dignity?
In other words, conservatives are fuck heads who make the world worse for stupid reasons.
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A lot of people died to get the pittances we got from the ownership class. Decades of
The idea that peacefully asking for stuff on its own is effective is largely ahistorical. A happy myth sold by the people who would be receiving violence.
Also your local public library has a lot of stuff
I (a man in his 40s) pronounced Lathe wrong the other day in a meeting when referencing the le Guin story “the lathe of heaven”. Someone privately messaged me after to say “great book. BTW, it’s pronounced…”
I would so much rather just have a full timestamp. I can do the delta fine myself.
That sounds like something out of Idiocracy. Just… it can’t all be highlights. Some things need to build!
I’ve encountered a surprising amount of seemingly intelligent, successful, people recently who of their own admission don’t read books. They just watch short videos, maybe a movie, and read social media.
I’m not a researcher but I expect that their vocabulary is stunted as a result.
But they’re so weirdly proud about it. Like a defiant 12 year old who doesn’t want to do his homework.
Once again, conservatives believe in hierarchy. Separate rules for separate people. That’s it. That’s the whole thing.
They don’t see “the congress guy gets paid leave and the bartender does not” as contradictory. They see that as the rule of hierarchy being applied consistently and fairly.
Like, imagine if someone told you your alphabetically sorted bookcase was wrong because you had the colors all mixed up. The worldview they’re applying doesn’t even intersect with more typical ideas about fairness.
I think a lot about a woman I used to know who adamantly refused to look up words she didn’t know. If she couldn’t figure it out from context, that’s just what it was.
She had some weird beliefs. Also the worst DND player I’ve ever had, I think.
That and some people take excessive resources, and some people are willing to back them up in exchange for table scraps.
Resignation is not enough. Imprisonment for social murder.