jordwest

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by jordwest 10mo ago
Don't get me wrong, I don't think humans are inherently evil. In fact in times of crisis (like the one you mention) we do tend to come together and I think that's evidence that the belief is incorrect. I just had a discussion
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by jordwest 10mo ago
> - this argument may well be stuck in the collective unconscious of lots of people (albeit in the religious context) Another example of such a belief is that "humans are inherently evil" which seems to have been planted in Wes
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by jordwest 10mo ago
Same, I think there's an idealistic belief in people who write those tickets that something can be perfectly specified upfront. Maybe for the most mundane, repetitive tasks that's true. But I'd argue that the code is the fu
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by jordwest 10mo ago
I first saw this about 15 years ago and it had a profound impact on me. It's stuck with me ever since "Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines, yo
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by jordwest 10mo ago
I like this future, the Meta-verse has found its target market
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by jordwest 10mo ago
> I suspect the wealthy think they can shield themselves by exerting control over Agreed and I think this is a result of a naive belief that we humans tend to have that controlling thoughts can control reality. Politicians still live by
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by jordwest 10mo ago
True, in terms of share of the pie for sure
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by jordwest 10mo ago
Yeah I know it's an unrealistic ideal but it's fun to think about. That said my theory about power and privilege is that it's actually just a symptom of a deep fear of death. The reason gaining more money/power/stat
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by jordwest 10mo ago
I think the idea of dollars as purely a trading medium where absolute prices don't matter wouldn't be such an issue if wages weren't always the last thing to rise with inflation. As it is now anyone with assets is only barely
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by jordwest 10mo ago
It would be kinda funny if not so tragic how economists will argue both "[productive improvement] will make things cheaper" and then in the next breath "deflation is bad and must be avoided at all costs"
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by jordwest 10mo ago
Yeah, from the perspective of the ultra-wealthy us humans are already pretty worthless and they'll be glad to get rid of us. But from the perspective of a human being, an animal, and the environment that needs love, connection, mutual
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by jordwest 10mo ago
> Perhaps there is some sort of failure of SWE's to understand that businesses don't care I think it's an engineer's nature to want to improve things and make them better, but then we naively assume that everybody els
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by jordwest 11mo ago
The tendency to push and pull on sensations has significantly fallen away for me, although I wouldn't say it's "gone" I might be able to add something here. I would agree with Shinzen Young that almost all suffering is c
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by jordwest 1y ago
Thank you for saying this. This drove me up the wall everywhere I worked that had those arbitrary ~300 line rules as all that happened was code review devolved into "I don't like this code pattern, use another code pattern".
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by jordwest 1y ago
Daniel Mackler has a whole YouTube channel about this https://youtu.be/eBRNIvK3HqA My experience matches very much with this thread. After years of therapy I hit a limit to what conventional psychology could explain or unde
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by jordwest 1y ago
I guess there is a convergence of ideas going on here because I've actually been tinkering on something like this, a Notion-database-like that just uses flat CSV files (and internally reads it into an in-memory SQLite for filtering, gr
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by jordwest 1y ago
I can only speak for myself, but what I discovered internally were a few mechanisms of my mind: 1. A fear of the unknown. The mind tries to construct a knowable future in order to feel safe and prepared. It doesn’t matter how accurate it is
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by jordwest 1y ago
I could go on with a list of ways I think technology has been good too - the internet allowing people to connect across the world almost for free, less estrangement from other cultures, new artistic mediums and ways to share art with other
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by jordwest 1y ago
Ahh perhaps it’s because Japan is such a high trust society. One of the few places where you can typically expect your lost wallet returned with all the cash inside. Here in Australia, several Coles supermarkets have installed exit gates th
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by jordwest 1y ago
I love that parable. It stands in such contrast to a world where we all feel a pressure to know what’s right and wrong, how things will go etc. The reality is none of us do.
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by jordwest 1y ago
Great article, I also have no doubt we're in for some serious changes in society. But I disagree with the conclusion. I think the ideal place to be is neither optimistic nor pessimistic, but neutral. A conviction that the future is bri
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AI and return to the office(west.io)
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by jordwest 2y ago
I don't share your optimism, I think as long as there are truly great games being made and the developers earning well from them, the business people are going to be looking at them and saying "we could do that". What those s
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by jordwest 2y ago
I agree for the most part, feeling the anger is a very important step to understanding where it comes from inside and the analogy of it being a guest is a great one. But (and this could just be the limitations of language so we may be sayin
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by jordwest 2y ago
Yes, narcissism combined with aggression is a dangerous combo. In my experience though almost every one of these aggressive angry people is quietly ashamed of their anger. They may not even be aware of it themselves, but that shame is what
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by jordwest 2y ago
As an anger repressor, I believed anger was a problem that should be set aside at all costs. Now that I'm a lot more in contact with anger, it's clear that that was counterproductive. Anger has a legitimate biological purpose - th
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by jordwest 2y ago
Dev of the mentioned extension here, I've been getting emails from bad actors offering to "buy" the extension for years. It really has made me far less trusting of browser extensions. If I can be bothered replying, I tell the
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by jordwest 2y ago
It's definitely very much closer to a complete game engine than a library like LOVE and heavily leans on OOP. Personally I prefer PIXI.js (which only focuses on sprites/graphics) as I can plug it more easily into my own data orien
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by jordwest 2y ago
> I get that everyone and/or they investors has got the FOMO for not being the guys holding the AGI demigod at the end of the day Don't underestimate the power of the ego... Look at their bonfire, we need one like that but bigg
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by jordwest 2y ago
Yes, it was a lot easier to do this as a single guy without a family and pretty minimal material desires. Mostly it was just living from savings - the first time was a working holiday overseas doing seasonal work with long stretches of time

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