Bakary

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by Bakary 4y ago
I don't want to give too much away but this question was explored in Ender's Game and the books from Ender's perspective that followed
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by Bakary 4y ago
Video games are way up there when it comes to insane value for money. But it seems that players then buy way more games than they need.
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by Bakary 4y ago
I actually really enjoyed the second movie of the new trilogy because it seemed to be a shockingly self-aware deconstruction of some of the Star Wars tropes and its place in culture in general. How it ever got greenlit by Disney of all enti
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by Bakary 4y ago
I definitely want to play the game you just linked and thanks for alerting me to it. However, in the game I was thinking of, the parser and descriptive text are in English, but characters speak in the constructed language and only respond t
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by Bakary 4y ago
There are bound to be philosophers who have tackled these questions in detail. I can't make any recommendations here as I lack the requisite knowledge, but I do have a proposition that starts with the following question: "What sor
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by Bakary 4y ago
I was looking for a more concise version of a classic joke but here it is anyway. https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~uoi/Jokes/Cobol.html
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by Bakary 4y ago
Photography is a distinct medium with its own expectations. People looking for 2d non-photography art generally aren't looking for a perfect representation of reality, so photography does not supersede what they want to see. In fact ph
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by Bakary 4y ago
We assume that the loss of inhibition will automatically make people more likely to interact. But what if a person would like to interact less in the moment, but feels compelled to do so via social rules? In this case, being less inhibited
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by Bakary 4y ago
Using any Photoshop tool still requires some work. AI is an order of magnitude more multifaceted and autonomous. What happens when we realize that AI art generators consistently and instantly bring forth better contributions than what we ca
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by Bakary 4y ago
NFTs and AI art feel pretty similar in that it was obvious from their very inception exactly how they will be abused: relentless opportunistic spam.
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by Bakary 4y ago
The problem is that it can take a long time to explain certain feelings or ideas you get from art (of any form), and even the attempt is a bit painful or downright impossible. A very low-level example would be a Jackson Pollock or Mondrian
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by Bakary 4y ago
There are two games I have really enjoyed but that I'm unable to find again - A single room game where you have to get rid of your inventory (it's a lot more compelling than it sounds) - Having to figure out a constructed language
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by Bakary 4y ago
Varicella is amazing, too. (the game, not the infectious disease)
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by Bakary 4y ago
If it were actual rules, it would be a lot simpler even if it were arbitrary. But usually it's AI blackbox decisions with very few humans you can ever talk to afterwards, even if the person in question makes a living from their account
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by Bakary 4y ago
HTML is great when you deal with lots of email correspondence at work. The signatures and formatting make it easier to anchor memories and navigate conversations.
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by Bakary 4y ago
Articles like these bother me because they're so conceptually similar to talking about a CEO's habit of waking up at five to take cold showers
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by Bakary 4y ago
They care because your content gets scrubbed without warning by the algorithm, and there is no way to appeal. The problem is particularly acute on YouTube.
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by Bakary 4y ago
I understand that the EU is a poor candidate to be a superpower. But how can it be a worse candidate than Russia, which can't even control Ukraine?
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by Bakary 4y ago
I can understand America and China being the only two realistic options for a superpower at the moment. What I don't understand is the idea that the EU as a superpower is less plausible than Russia?
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by Bakary 4y ago
The previous US President is currently being investigated for leaking nuclear secrets. During his tenure, he went from being a reality TV star to having control over the most sophisticated nuclear arsenal in the world, with a system express
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by Bakary 4y ago
Defending peaceful commerce, high-quality food ingredients, and privacy doesn't seem so bad.
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by Bakary 4y ago
- The comment structure favors the 'middlebrow contrarian' style of response. This phenomenon is particularly acute on Reddit but on here it's a more understated process that's proportional to HN's design difference
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by Bakary 4y ago
Creepily reminiscent of this short story: https://www.nature.com/articles/436150a
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by Bakary 4y ago
This was a really intriguing idea but I failed to get much luck with it...`
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by Bakary 4y ago
That's not really the argument I was going for, but it does have merit on its own. The idea is more that, in an intuitive sense, it's very unlikely that if you examine a self-described nihilist's life and inner mental world t
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by Bakary 4y ago
The idea is that nobody is really a nihilist when they're confronted with reality. Philosophy never survives first contact with a crisis in the moment.
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by Bakary 4y ago
Luckily culture is shifting all over the world towards making most of us much larger than before, thus increasing our significance.
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by Bakary 4y ago
There is some irony there in that it seems Steve Jobs did in fact do a lot to specifically be remembered, since we now have people ranking him in the same sentence as Newton or Einstein despite essentially being a semi-luxury good salesman.
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by Bakary 4y ago
Early Simpsons did satirize Christianity a bit but didn't go full blast with it because they already had their hands full with just satirizing the idea of a "normal", wholesome American family that ironically corresponded les
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by Bakary 4y ago
Well it depends. If you grind leetcode and it gets you a FAANG position that leads to financial freedom in just five low-stress years, then it's well worth it, isn't it?

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