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by chobeat 8y ago
the problem with rimworld is that there's too much micro and that the amount of emergent behavior is extremely limited compared to DF. There's no freedom to create and there's no serendipity. There's randomness but it&#x
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by chobeat 8y ago
Rimworld is kinda lame if you've played DF. They are not even comparable.
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by chobeat 8y ago
No, there are just too many with a lifestyle way too consumeristic. Eliminating the western lifestyle, especially the American one should be enough.
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Worst Programming Language Names(write.as)
4 points by chobeat 8y ago|3 comments
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True but you have the issues and the PR. The format for sure is not intended for casual discussion but at the same time there's plenty of space to discuss improvements and bring criticism.
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by chobeat 8y ago
If you're interested in reading more about the subject of AI and Ethics or AI and Fairness, I kindly suggest this reading list I've been working on for a while: https://github.com/chobeat/awesome-critical-tech
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Tech Workers, Platform Workers, and Workers’ Inquiry(notesfrombelow.org)
2 points by chobeat 8y ago|0 comments
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General Intellect Unit 030 – Organising Tech, with Wendy Liu and Jason Prado(generalintellectunit.net)
1 points by chobeat 8y ago|0 comments
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by chobeat 8y ago
No because capitalism, even on paper, will still imply poverty as a structural element. Without poverty and exploitation, the system cannot sustain itself. This without considering waste: Capitalism, being competitive at every scale, implie
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by chobeat 8y ago
This kind of books go through different channels than the ones that are followed by the engineers. Engineers pick up this stuff when it ends up in the mainstream but they don't really participate that much in the tech critique world.
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by chobeat 8y ago
I worked on card transaction data (from Mastercard) in streaming 5 years ago. It's as shitty and invasive as a group of soulless bank BI can make it. Their detachment from the human damage they were creating and the way they basked in
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by chobeat 8y ago
You still think about a family as if it's a community of individuals. You participate in a community when you have a personal interest that overlaps with the collective interest of the community and you're out once these interests
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by chobeat 8y ago
Well, material limitations always determinated societal structures. I don't see why it should be different or more sad now.
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by chobeat 8y ago
Well, postmodernism is about reverting the changes that illuminism and capitalism brought to the world and that are not working with society, so I feel it's totally fine to go back to more functioning structures.
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by chobeat 8y ago
Genghis Khan had a technological advantage over his competitors: the mongolian bow, the stirrup, the logistical ability to coordinate over a distance that was unthinkable for most of the other nations that ever tried to chase nomads into th
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by chobeat 8y ago
He probably read Nick Land without understanding him. Or some cybernetics critics.
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by chobeat 8y ago
no boiling? My mother always boiled it a little bit and checked how it coagulates.
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On Socialist Cybernetics, Accelerationist Dreams, and Tiqqun’s Nightmares(networkcultures.org)
3 points by chobeat 8y ago|0 comments
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That's a starting point. Otherwise publicly-funded projects or institutions.
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Is it meaningful? Not that much. We probably enable many use cases that won't really change much. Nonetheless the kind of expertise we are building might be applied to other fields with more meaningful impact. Will my company pursue th
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by chobeat 8y ago
I think the question is about the meaning your job has for the system at large, not for you as an individual. But gratz anyway
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by chobeat 8y ago
I don't think late evening is the alternative. 9-5 links to "corporate" and "corporate" links to "meaningless job" for many reasons: first of all if you work for a company, the profit will come before the
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by chobeat 8y ago
Can you please create a PR? I will gladly go through the content
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> But, but, his thesis is that we're inevitably heading in the direction of a dystopia with "robo judges" and scientific pursuit being judged based on "metrics"... And that "surveillance capitalism" com
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by chobeat 8y ago
"humanist issues" are about the management (not the solution) of unsolvable disagreements. The knowledge is different in nature from scientific knowledge but for no reason should it be considered inferior. By thinking this way you
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by chobeat 8y ago
Aaaaaaaaaand here we go again.
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> The truth is much simpler: engineers have responded to being bullied out of the debate by simply ignoring it, and implementing AI without concern for the results of that debate. Engineers have that power -- they can unilaterally change
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by chobeat 8y ago
It's a hot topic. One very good argument I've read recently is that most of what pro-science people label as "anti-scientific" statements like anti-vax stuff are made by people that don't refuse science as a whole b
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by chobeat 8y ago
The language is loaded because it's part of an ongoing discourse that by >is this how papers in non-STEM look like in general? you're not familiar with. And yes, this is quite a good paper for sociology standards. It comes from
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by chobeat 8y ago
you're welcome ^^

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