falling-star
4mo ago
Yeah IDK man, I can tell pretty quick whether the LLM code works or not. Either the UI starts looking right, the data starts getting transformed how I need it, or it doesn't. For anything not dead simple to validate I use my own brain. That's still automating a huge part of my work.
falling-star
4mo ago
Speak for yourself. They're great for doing entry level tasks in languages/tech you're not familiar with. Once you get a good sense for what they do and don't hallucinate, you can really cruise through. It's made me significantly faster.
falling-star
4mo ago
Your link appears to be broken for me, goes to an unlisted video of "youtube is not supported on this device".
falling-star
4mo ago
That would be absolute political chaos
falling-star
4mo ago
It looks like a woman in the audience died, caught one to the head.
falling-star
4mo ago
Do you think the drug reduces your general factor pleasure/reward feelings? Or is it just only "bad" things? Any effect on sexual pleasure?
falling-star
4mo ago
I agree with your "[willpower]>[forces against]" framing. Two things I want to add to that. First, you can modify both ends of the equation. Using your willpower makes it stronger. You can modify your situation to remove forces against. Second, I think there's a fuzzy split between willpower and what I'm going to tentatively call agency. Willpower seems like actively resisting or continuing: Keeping up a run or powering through the last set. Agency is more like starting in the first place from inactivity. Calling up someone to be a gym buddy, or getting off the couch. I think we have more of a crisis of agency than of willpower.
falling-star
4mo ago
Fundamentally it comes down to agency. Exercising, getting off drugs, and doing other rewarding but """hard""" things is all agency. I don't really believe in morality, but agency is a personal trait just as much as beauty or strength. Right or wrong, people have little patience for low agency.
an extreme deficit in willpower as it relates to physical exertion which requires a dedicated program
You can train up your will power. Do a little of the hard thing at first. Get into the gym at least once in the week. Drink less for one night. I guess you could say this a chicken and egg problem, invest willpower into developing your will power. You gotta bootstrap from somewhere. If you're unable or unwilling to do this... Isn't that definitionally a personal failing?
falling-star
4mo ago
Expand on what you mean by it being "cured in an instant".
falling-star
4mo ago
I was a huge fan of Cultist Simulator. I like it to the point I have to keep it uninstalled or I'll ruin my sleep. Seems like the parts you don't like are the ones I like. I love occult vibes and obscure plots and mechanics. I love not knowing what the fuck is going on while portentous things are happening around me. Dark Souls is my GOAT for this.
falling-star
4mo ago
House of many doors felt like a first draft of a game. I liked the world and the characters a lot, but so much of the game just plain old lacked polish. The combat was very rough, and the mechanics barely made sense. The vibes powerful at least, though not as good as Sunless Sea.
falling-star
4mo ago
The game play is much better in sunless skies, but the writing was way better in sunless sea. Funny enough I think the OG writer, Alexis Kennedy, got pushed out of the company in between games for sleeping around the office.
falling-star
4mo ago
After the debate disaster, everyone's been talking about how it will affect the election and if he'll drop out. I want to ask something else: How fucked are we if any serious foreign policy crises kick off in the next 6 months? There's much to criticize in our current handling of the situations in Ukraine and Gaza, but at least they're not going totally sideways. Are those going ~neutral because they started before 'Ole Joe finally lost it? Was he already out of it then but the deep state had good plans in advance? Or is his current cabinet effectively making all the decisions as they go?
Do you think four more years of Joe as a figure head will play out roughly how the past 4 did in terms of foreign policy competence? Or do you think his decline is going to make things worse?
Before this debate I thought it'd be more of the same. At this point I wouldn't trust him to have a friendly chat with an allied leader. At this point the ship of state is effectively on auto pilot. Or drifting on momentum. How long it's been like this is an open question.
I think it would be entirely appropriate to remove him with the 25th Amendment at this point. The fact that no normies are talking about that scares me. Is everyone just quietly OK with not having anyone in charge? I think that while it would be best for the Republic, a removal would do even more electoral damage to the Dems than even the chaos of a hotswap. That's why we're not going to see it.
Do you think in the next 6 months it's possible the situation worsens enough that the 25th Amendment actually gets used? I think if there's another public meltdown like this around a crisis, it could get to that point. Call it 5% odds of removal without an international crisis, 20% with.
(First post, feedback appreciated)
I don't think Israel is guilty of genocide, but casual disregard for human life seems to fit the bill. https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
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