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by balamatom 5mo ago
Thank you for this.
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by balamatom 5mo ago
>Sadly the human need for being heard and understood is innate And humans are hell-bent on denying this to each other. Just like sustenance or shelter. Hmm. Wonder what's that all about? >You'd be surprised The hypothetical
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by balamatom 5mo ago
Moldbug called, asked for his mold and bugs back.
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by balamatom 5mo ago
>i look around and it feels like everyone is nerfing themselves >this clearly has visible impacts on how we engage with each other > there's something there that I'm noticing and don't have the words for. Welcome to
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by balamatom 5mo ago
The AI loves it, though!
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by balamatom 5mo ago
I didn't see the connection initially.
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by balamatom 5mo ago
Well the last consumer is holding it wrong of course. Why? The last consumer is present, and everyone else is behind 7 proxies.
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by balamatom 5mo ago
>We've automated ourselves into Goodhart's law. Yes. This does not however mean that progress is not being made. It just means the progress is happening along such dimensions that are completely illegible in terms of the cultur
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by balamatom 5mo ago
Because, "friend", I do not only care about myself.
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by balamatom 5mo ago
Cute! I like this. For what it's worth, though, the people I know to need emotional literacy the most, would probably find the art style extremely off-putting. I don't agree with them, but it's an interesting correlation to p
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by balamatom 6mo ago
I don't know about you, but things that make me happy and things that automatically make me bare my teeth at them are not the same things. Deal with it.
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by balamatom 6mo ago
this thread is funny, i picked up lower case writing around the outset of puberty from someone who seemed a little more awake than average and i thought that was cool
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by balamatom 6mo ago
QC?
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by balamatom 6mo ago
> No matter if it was 'done to them', Love the quote marks. Next time try a Marx quote. I mean the brothers. To fellow humans reading: the point is that the ones who did this to you are extremely unlikely to repent. Or even to
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by balamatom 6mo ago
That would be very sad indeed.
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by balamatom 6mo ago
The problem is that non-knuckledraggers know bad words like "why" or "no", and are not afraid to use them. Knuckledraggers, on the other hand, only know good words like "vibe" and "ew", and gladly tun
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by balamatom 6mo ago
That's alright; just revisit my first reply and you can call it a day.
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by balamatom 6mo ago
[flagged]
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by balamatom 6mo ago
I meant what would have happened - and to whom - if HR had greenlighted the offer, but others' posts pretty much clarified that for me, thanks.
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by balamatom 6mo ago
What's worse: good work that I get to do myself, or bad work that I'm forced to accept anyway?
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Yes, and that's a completely different point from the one you were making. Your claim that they became massively popular before they revealed themselves to be bigots, contradicts your claim about their > lack of compassion, imagin
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by balamatom 6mo ago
How many reasons do you think there are?
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by balamatom 6mo ago
The `comment_header` template would iterate over the files in `comment_header.d/*`, which would, admittedly, need forced sorted naming: 100_parent.template 150_context.template 200_prev_next.template 300_flag.template 350_favorite.temp
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Okay, so why would anyone not know this?
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Suppose somewhere within 50-100ly exists sapient alien life. And all the mental effluvia that Earth has been broadcasting reaches them at some point. Like, all the fucking mass communication since the invention of radio. And they're li
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Why the scare quotes? Being right is the literal opposite of bad behavior.
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Huh. What do you reckon would have happened if you'd hired them anyway?
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Maybe a demonstration? Please, show me how you choose to be upset about any thing that you don't already find upsetting.
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Came here to post this as well. Suspiciously few people care enough to notice such things and then put 2 and 2 together. The only explanation I have, has to do with the suspiciously numerous people who care suspiciously much about the neces
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by balamatom 6mo ago
A 3D game, like any interactive program, is a REPL over a state machine: 1. Setup initial game state 2. Render graphics in accordance to game state 3. Read input and update state in accordance with it 4. GOTO 2 The purpose of C++ is to prev

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