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by bccdee 2y ago
> The only difference between rich people and poor people is they have more money so their inefficiencies are louder. Yes. Their inefficiencies are deafeningly loud and have a massive impact on the rest of us. This is why I am suggesting
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by bccdee 2y ago
I already addressed this: > Billionaires tend to steer the economy toward vanity projects. Musk's only meaningful contribution to SpaceX was money. We could just have raised NASA's budget instead, but we didn't. There are
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by bccdee 2y ago
> Is your suggestion that the government go against the will of the people and apply those pro-worker-coop regulations anyway? This litmus test is absurd. If more consumers buy products manufactured with child labour, is it "going a
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by bccdee 2y ago
Success and viability within a system that is mutable > There's a large economics literature on this: worker-owned cooperatives have not taken over the market, although they are an available institutional form, because (a) they find
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by bccdee 2y ago
> We forcibly allocate capital less efficiently Efficiency with regard to what goal? The current allocation of capital in the US is quite inefficient if we're interested in the welfare of the public. Billionaires have far more capit
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by bccdee 2y ago
These are some of the opening remarks of this article: > It is usually the young father’s criminal behavior, the spells of incarceration that so often follow, a pattern of intimate violence, his chronic infidelity, and an inability to le
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by bccdee 2y ago
Implementation inheritance often leads to code that is just awful to read. If class C extends class B and class B extends class A, then to find out what `new C().foo()` actually does, you need to read through the whole C-B-A hierarchy, bott
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by bccdee 2y ago
Extending #2, we've developed incredibly flexible and powerful tools for editing plain text. I've found refactoring to be a breeze with Vim macros, and people swear by Sublime's multi-cursor editing. Even with a good set of h
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by bccdee 2y ago
There's a much easier way to translate json cat english.json | sed 's/"\([^"]*\)"/«\1»/g' > french.json
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by bccdee 2y ago
I dunno, some light searching reveals that they lots of latex moulds for lawn ornaments are for sale on Etsy. It seems like these things are out there.
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by bccdee 2y ago
I assume you wouldn't just cast one thing. Obviously it's not ideal if you just want one statue, but the concept scales well. You could get two moulds and do a dozen statues over a couple weeks.
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by bccdee 2y ago
Why not cast on site? A silicone mould is light and durable, and while pouring concrete isn't easy, I don't think it's prohibitively challenging. You could ship the mould, cast on location, and return the mould for a refund
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by bccdee 2y ago
> Before Minecraft came out, you'd be complaining about "Procedurally-generated slop" Before Minecraft came out, I played Nethack. No, I was never principally opposed to procgen games. However, there is such a thing as pro
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by bccdee 2y ago
> I want to experience my own story Then why not write your own story? An LLM can't write your story for you. They're very bad writers. It can't even help much—its contributions are going to be dull and uninspired. > th
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Does that really sound fun to you? Why would a player want to grill an NPC about their friend Rolf if all that they're going to get from it is improvised LLM-generated anecdotes? Players don't talk to NPCs simply because they want
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by bccdee 2y ago
Minecraft doesn't have an LLM in it. Here's why Minecraft works: It's an ecosystem full of carefully-designed areas and resources (biomes fine-tuned to generate specific types of landscape, enemies with focus-tested behaviour
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by bccdee 2y ago
LLMs are boring, though. Have you actually tried going to ChatGPT and asking it to tell you a story? It isn't entertaining. It isn't interesting. It's a waste of time. Anything interesting will have to be provided by the play
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by bccdee 2y ago
There's an idea in game design called "negative possibility space." If your player walks to the end of a long hallway and it's a dead end, or they shimmy up a narrow ledge to the top of a building only to find nothing, t
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by bccdee 2y ago
> rarely have I heard someone say “well I said I’d be happy when this happened, it’s happened, and now I’m happy I've heard this, but only from people who had been in an very shitty situation and then got out. Happiness is a state o
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by bccdee 3y ago
> Pinochet may have implemented neoliberal economic policy, but he did not support individual rights. [...] Violent suppression of your critics is hardly liberal. America has often suppressed critics. Take McCarthyism. Take the killing o
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by bccdee 3y ago
> An earthquake is not an atrocity Earthquakes aren't preventable. If you could stop an earthquake and you chose not to, that would be an atrocity. > Who was the last libertarian that perpetrated a genocide? Augusto Pinochet was
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by bccdee 3y ago
> The benefit is adhering to a set of principles that guard against committing atrocities that have already cost countless millions of lives. If your ideology would permit the preventable death of a billion people, I'd say it's
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by bccdee 3y ago
> Would you kill one unwilling person to save a million? a billion? I would not. Yes, in an instant. I find your perspective completely self-defeating here. The cost of your way of thinking is a billion lives, minus one. What is the bene
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by bccdee 3y ago
Thank you! That really makes my day.
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by bccdee 3y ago
> it's anti-authoritarian, which is a synonym for liberal. You don't have much grounding in leftist thought, do you? Nobody who had even a passing familiarity with left-wing anarchism would say this. It's not worth getting
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by bccdee 3y ago
> Liberalism as an ideology can be derived from two axioms Those axioms don't really create a consistent or substantial ethical universe. If I'm a serial killer and I say, "don't worry, we're all moral equals. Yo
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> There are of course some rotten outliers, but those are the exceptions which prove the rule. Oh please. This could be used to justify anything. I could say that murder is uncommon, and when it does happen, that's "the excepti
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by bccdee 3y ago
Why all these appeals to "core liberal values"? You can't justify a bad idea by saying "but it's part of liberalism." If that's true, it just means that liberalism is a bad ideology. Who says that's w
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> It violates core liberal fundamentals. People have the right to be as involved of parents as they see fit, and to raise their children with values of their choosing. If that's "core liberal fundamentals," then maybe libe
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> I remember reading about how in Chicago someone had noticed that kids who did better had more books at home, so they decided to give poor kids books. The problem here was not trying to infer causality from population-level data, but ra

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