In a perfect world, yes.

In reality, i knew what i did and why i did it, two years ago, after which i never had to touch it again until now, and it takes me 2 hours of searching/fiddling until i remember that weird thing i did 2 years ago…

and it’s still totally worth it

Oh or e.g. random env vars in .profile that I’m sure where needed for nvidia on wayland at some point, no clue if they’re still necessary but i won’t touch them unless something breaks. and half of them were probably not neccessary to begin with, but trying all differen’t combinations is tedious…

Plus you can spam thousands of songs easily, one is bound to be catchy and successful, an outlier on the bell curve.

I’m curious what they will do for live concerts, hire a perfomer or AI all the way with some generated video?

Crazy how it went from this 5 months ago to this two weeks ago, talk about Streisand effect

Or even worse, reading online that there’s some super special item you could have gotten 20 hours into the game if only you didn’t open that one regular chest in the starting area in the first 5 minutes of the game. I forgot which Final Fantasy did this? 9 maybe? Pissed me off to no end, i’m not playing through everything again for this… just seemed mean spirited.

More generally, when decisions early on influnce later stuff that you have no way of knowing about yet. I’m not going to play your game 50 times to see all options. So either i play with the wiki open to not miss anything, ruining the fun, or i realize later on that i could have gotten something but it’s now forever locked because of earlier decisions, pissing me off.

Baldurs Gate 3 had a lot of that…

Actually, the optimism in ministry for the future depressed me and made me not finish it. Even though at the time I was wanting for some optimistic climate fiction.

Here we have this huge threat to humanity and way too little is done about it. But then all the ‘solutions’ in the book are so unrealistic, like russians using oil equipment in antarctica to help the world… it just made me more depressed about climate change that the solutions he came up with are more fever dreams.

the first chapter was very well done though and should be required reading

they did and i’d be surprised if it didn’t continue with more strikes

I’d be really curios to see some sort of study done on this. I mean, it’s not just americans and most of the west is not insulated from america, either, at least not online. and you don’t know from talking to someone online where they’re from. At the same time, there’s rising fascism and neoliberalism bullshit in europe, too.

I’d love to know how much of it is people getting antsier in general because they’re in a shit situation and how much it’s ‘infectious’ from talking with people in shit situations elsewhere, spreading bad vibes. Is this also happening in the chinese web? How about other countries that are more politically/economically aligned with the west but culturally less part of the english speaking web?

There has to be some sociologist out there somewhere studying this, no? But i wouldn’t know where to look. if anyone knows of something along those lines, i’d love to hear it.

Where is the new study? They have sources at the bottom but which one is the actual study they talk about?

CTRL+F for “Study” only has the word in the title and in three links in the sources, all of which are from several years ago. I realise it’s medium.com, which usually sucks, not real journalism, but how can you make a write-up about a purported new study without mentioning or linking to it once in the article…

oh for going out ours will sit in front of the entry door and look in our direction, even if we’re two rooms away. we really need to pay attention to notice if he suddenly disappears and then check the entry.

It’s really interesting how you start to be able to distinguish the different kinds of look they give you, like I couldn’t say how but I know if he needs help, needs to go out or if he wants to play depending on how he sits and looks.

My dog is pretty smart, but sometimes he’s smart in pretty stupid ways.

One thing he does is, if he needs help he will sit in front of the thing he needs help with. That’s it, just sit there. Now, he’s a black dog and he will sometimes do this in completely dark corners of the apartment. Maybe he played with his food ball and a treat has fallen under some furniture, he will just sit in front of it in the dark and expect us to help him, just sitting there for 20 minutes sometimes. Usually we only notice once he lets out a sad grumble after having sat there for a long time but I’m sure there’s other times where he just gave up and we didn’t notice at all. And this is not something we taught him, he just figured sitting quietly in a corner is the best way to get attention.

That and he likes to check if there’s anything going on behind him while on walks, which often causes him to walk head-first into obstacles…

Yes I think that summarizes it nicely 🙂

I don’t think it’s circular reasoning. more like kicking the can down the road, instead of deciding needs, you need to decide goals. but once you have a goal it helps determining the needs. So it’s a different framing that can help a bit to untangle the mess. Maslow is also just 4 goals in a hierarchy and then the needs for each of them.

As for how to decide on goals, idk, that changes all the time and I don’t think there’s any hard set rule to figure that out. In the end it’s all just made up 🤷 But I think asking yourself “what are my goals in life” is more productive than asking yourself “what do I need”, at least it comes more naturally to me.

I think a need is neccessarily tied to some goal and can’t really be discussed without mentioning the goal.

If the goal is survival the needs are water, food shelter. if your goal is not to continue living, then e.g. poison would be more of a need than food, water and shelter.

If the goal is having a fulfilled life the needs also include social contact, intimacy, something meaningful you can spend your time on etc.

so i don’t think you can just say something is a need, you need to decide what your goals are, probably with some hierarchy of goals, and work backwards from that to the needs. Or conversely, to know if something is a need, think about if not having it would keep you from your goal.

All the oil and coal being burned that causes it used to be organic matter, like plankton. and before those died and captured it, all that co2 was in the atmosphere, and the earth was much hotter.

no matter how hot it gets because of this, there will be life left. and we’ll likely die before we can make it bad enough that only single cell organisms survive. It’ll still be terrible and take a long time to recover. but life will be fine in the long run

Also the largest number ever factorized on a quantum computer (not simulated) is like 30. So this is like 1950’s level of computing(in terms of number of transistors vs qbits) and we’re 20-30 years of incremental change away from really threatening encryption

But what if your phone comes with nice AI filters? The fake videos get more and more real and the real videos get more and more fake

“people get to choose”… last time the second place got picked because the committee didn’t like the first placed one. It had different scale things on them, an atom for the smallest bill and our galaxy for the largest. But for a middle denomination one there was an image of a fetus and they didn’t like that.

so the public can join but the national bank still has final say

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results from last time if anyone is interested

I’d honestly be most worried about them being essentially raised by an ass-kissing sycophantic llm. That shit is already messing with some adults, i couldn’t imagine what it’d do to a child.

a whole generation of narcissists maybe? I mean, sure, kids need encouragement. But just being told that everything you say is a great idea, your a genius, wow, you’re so amazing, over and over…

and then combine that with social media that’s already messing with kids self esteem and social skills shudder

It’s a buzzword in crypto but has real applications outside of that

I think it was this one from 2022 that mentions coreweave borrowing 29 billion backed by GPUs.

especially nice given how fast they depreciate.