If it’s going to make LLMs it’s not as useful as the other things I listed. Paying a bunch of software engineers $300k each to work on LLM nonsense instead of something useful is a shame. Sure, the money isn’t set on fire, but the opportunity cost is large.

I think all the ones owned by match group (tinder, okcupid, hinge, match, more …) have ads. Sometimes they’ll show you ads for other services they own. It’s real weird getting an ad for tinder on hinge.

That’s a lot of money that could have been spent on healthcare, food security, housing, transit, climate change problems…

Havent used Spotify for years. Bought music on Bandcamp and some other sources, play it drm free.

Some of the ER dungeons are neat. Even the dull ones are mostly fine as an intro.

They do feel a bit pointless once you know what the loot is. Maybe it would’ve been neat if clearing them had some other nice effect, but that might’ve turned into a chore.

This is why gamers will own nothing and love it.

It’s just children eating marshmallows.

Being mildly uncomfortable and skipping the new hotness is just unthinkable for a lot of people.

The police involved should be treated as murderers.

It’s the poor empathy thing again. They can’t really imagine someone else as different than themselves.

I actually never played much XCOM, but I did play a lot of final fantasy tactics. And the original fallout.

I think Baldur’s gate 3 cheats though, since with karmic dice off I rolled four natural 1s in a row, twice.

I’ve played a lot of games with random factors. Sometimes you miss that 99% shot three times in a row. People kind of assume anything above 80% is 100%, which is silly.

Preferring an absence of tension over the presence of justice is famously a weak moral position to take.

Those are two very different things.

Someone who says “I’m not very political” in a maga-infused bar because they’re afraid of being assaulted for being left-wing isn’t really the same as “I’m tired so I’m not going to stand up for my neighbor today”

These people need to be ruined. Lose their job. Barred from working in similar roles for life. Put their boss on notice- if their underlings pull this again then they go, too.

Good read.

I fuck around with Claude at work because there’s a mandate to do so, and it’s unsettling how it mimicks being a person. A lot of the parts are there. It would be easy to fall into that delusion.

It’s unsafe.

A woman who was arrested on Saturday after she drove a truck through a youth soccer game in Wichita, Kansas – killing a boy and a man – has been released from custody without charges pending further investigation, according to authorities.

Once again, the best way to do some murder is with a car. People just accept it

I had someone get mad at me once because I ended an otherwise innocuous text with a period. I was like, it doesn’t mean anything. I was going to write another sentence, but then didn’t. Stop imagining secret meanings.

I think they were my worst ex partner, come to think of it.

“He’s not as good at this as he thinks he is,” said Christopher Preble, senior fellow and director of the Reimagining U.S. Grand Strategy program at the Stimson Center, an international security think tank.

Yeah. He’s an idiot.

Cooperative sports would be interesting. Two teams come in, and they need to get a ball through some obstacles together…

It is kind of funny how the US simultaneously exalts FREEDOM and tyranny. The tyranny being the private realm, where your boss has total control

We are ruled by idiots. It’s probably been that way for the majority of history.

Most places I’ve worked, management has been a negative force.