YurgenJurgensen

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by YurgenJurgensen 11mo ago
Yes, technically, having spare resources to devote to your own appearance is considered a positive signal, but it is an unreliable one, and often one not as valued by the people making the judgement. If there are many ways to signal wealth
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by YurgenJurgensen 11mo ago
That too is pretty obvious from the same perspective: Admitting you only care about someone’s genes is itself considered shallow, so people make up other justifications based on other, more accepted values.
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by YurgenJurgensen 11mo ago
You say ‘somehow’ like the reasoning isn’t obvious. Physical attractiveness is a signal of reproductive fitness when it’s genetic, and not otherwise.
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by YurgenJurgensen 11mo ago
Why should developers be on the hook indefinitely for content? Why can’t they just make a good game and sell it? If a game needs continuous ‘content updates’ to remain good, it simply wasn’t meant to be played forever. Not all games are.
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by YurgenJurgensen 11mo ago
Most roguelites use those patterns because they are fundamentally linked to slot machines. They may not be as predatory as money sinks, but they’re optimised to be time sinks as a method of promotion via word-of-mouth, streaming or activit
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by YurgenJurgensen 11mo ago
There’s always a few people, saying this whenever the topic comes up, but as always, smarks are still marks. They want you to think you’re getting one over the system, because you’ll either cave, or advertise the game to someone who does.
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by YurgenJurgensen 11mo ago
I think that this kind of thing reduces the individual to a list of group affiliations. It’s the opposite of self-expression really.
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by YurgenJurgensen 11mo ago
Nowadays, when I see someone with two dozen stickers on their laptop or pins on their lanyard, I see someone with two dozen hot button issues on which they’ll try to ruin your life over a differing opinion.
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by YurgenJurgensen 11mo ago
Dock some arbitrary cleaning fee from your final paycheque?
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by YurgenJurgensen 1y ago
‘Responsible’ gambling is still morally irresponsible. People are walking adverts for their hobbies whether they like it or not, so people who engage with gambling will be indirectly encouraging other people to take up the hobby, many of w
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by YurgenJurgensen 1y ago
“Yes — I can imagine it. A simple sphere, maybe sitting in a soft pool of light.” “I’m picturing it as a bright red ball, glossy and catching a bit of light on one side.” Great, huh? Except that’s what ChatGPT said when I asked it those tw
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by YurgenJurgensen 1y ago
The apple was red. I didn’t even try to imagine anything. Apples are just conceptually red by default. I can also tell you that it was tart, and crisp. I didn’t imagine those sensations either, they were just the first words that came to
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by YurgenJurgensen 1y ago
It’s actually even worse than that. Not only am I unconvinced that aphantasia is real or merely a difference in the way people describe the same experience (either because of how they use language, or because of how their mental images are
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by YurgenJurgensen 1y ago
I don’t hate AI, I hate liars. It’s just that so far, the former has proven itself to be of little use to anyone but the latter.
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by YurgenJurgensen 1y ago
Don’t most ad platforms and search engines track bounce rate? If too many users see that generic opening paragraph, bullet list and scattering of emoji, and immediately hit back or close, they lose revenue.
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by YurgenJurgensen 1y ago
It only levels the field between you and a million spambots, which arguably makes you look even worse than before.
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by YurgenJurgensen 1y ago
2+2 doesn’t suddenly become 5 just because you’re bored of 4.
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by YurgenJurgensen 1y ago
This. AI translations are so accessible now that if you’re going to submit machine-translations, you may as well just write in your native language and let the reader machine translate. That’s at least accurately representing the amount o
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by YurgenJurgensen 1y ago
Paste passages from Wikipedia featured articles, today’s newspapers or published novels and it’ll still suggest style changes. And if you know enough to know to ignore ChatGPTs suggestions, you didn’t need it in the first place.
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by YurgenJurgensen 1y ago
There are people who start new projects in MATLAB in 2025 for reasons other than ‘our expensive bespoke libraries only support MATLAB and it’d cost millions to rewrite them’?
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by YurgenJurgensen 1y ago
Spreadsheets are one of the ugliest pieces of software that we use. Pretty much all of the paradigms spreadsheets enforce would be considered abhorrent in any other context. Excel needs five hundred megabytes of memory just to load a blan
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by YurgenJurgensen 1y ago
The heliocentric model turning out to be wrong made Copernicus more of a scientist. Freud didn’t even make it to the level of falsifiability.
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by YurgenJurgensen 1y ago
Are you saying that self-hating westerners aren’t real? It’s an entire industry at this point.
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by YurgenJurgensen 1y ago
When a member of a group says that a term used to refer to them is pejorative, is it now an acceptable response to simply say ‘no it isn’t’? That hasn’t been the case for decades.
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by YurgenJurgensen 1y ago
It’s pretty simple. ‘West => weird = bad.’
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by YurgenJurgensen 1y ago
There are no ‘freaks’ flying flags. There are highly polarised groups signalling their in-group identity, each backed by their own billionaires.
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by YurgenJurgensen 1y ago
I’ve seen a massive uptick in the use of ‘weird’ as an insult (charitably because all the old insults get you shadowbanned on social media, less charitably because conformism is what the mainstream values more than anything), so the author
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by YurgenJurgensen 1y ago
“Fancy autocomplete better at completing documents similar to ones it has seen before” isn’t as headline-worthy.
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by YurgenJurgensen 1y ago
It’s also one of those things that gets repeated as a ‘myth’ or ‘misconception’ so often that nowadays, the real misconception is that there is a significant population of literate humans who haven’t encountered this topic at least once.
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by YurgenJurgensen 1y ago
But the Mediterranean is right there. Did you think the Mediterranean drains into some sinkhole in the middle of Africa?

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