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by jrowen 7mo ago
See my other comment on this, but I'm talking about the top of the form, the movies that have and/or will stand the test of time and be considered notable for some reason. Not the average of all movies made in a given year.
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by jrowen 7mo ago
I'm talking about the best of the best though, the top of the form at the time. Yes those are classics and for good reason. But there were also lots more. Lucas, Kubrick, Spielberg, Lynch...feels like they just don't make 'em
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by jrowen 7mo ago
True but I think a lot of them would be in the "I totally want to watch feature films" camp. By wholeheartedly I meant that the kids don't even have that pretense.
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by jrowen 7mo ago
I recently watched A League of Their Own and Die Hard . In my opinion, these movies are just categorically different from what's being made today, are still totally compelling start to finish, and really capture the magic and the hi
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by jrowen 7mo ago
Can you comment further on this? As an American it's kind of hard to see that. Is this just kind of a temporary reaction to the Trump administration or a larger trend? What is taking its place? Are there more localized media pockets (e
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by jrowen 7mo ago
> I think people still want to watch 1+ hour fiction stories that are compelling. I mean, "want to" is one thing, but the numbers show what they end up doing. Instagram and TikTok, like video games as someone else mentioned,
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by jrowen 7mo ago
I think the issue is that content creation and distribution has already been fully democratized. How many hours do people spend watching videos shot by individuals on their phones in their apartments? Combined with streaming, there's j
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by jrowen 7mo ago
It's just the sad truth that these things are motivated first and foremost by violence and aggression towards other people. We're a little more civilized than some but really no different from any other bloodthirsty maniacs. There
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by jrowen 7mo ago
I think it's safe to say that whatever products the military is using are vastly different from what's available to and designed for everyday consumers. DARPA may be past its heyday and certainly the private sector has caught up i
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by jrowen 7mo ago
You have to have working knowledge of StarCraft and the RTS genre of games to understand what they're getting at. One area is "micromanagement." Hundreds of individual units moving and acting independently is very difficult f
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by jrowen 7mo ago
> This behavior predates Trump. He's just an accelerationist of where this sort of behavior was always bound to go. Idk if I agree with this. First off, your initial verbiage is distinctly Trumpian. Second, I think Trump, like Hit
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by jrowen 7mo ago
I think the "you" they refer to there is the hypothetical other skilled human, not a computer. The wording is confusing but I think they're just saying that the human players will reach a ceiling with each other (they then co
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by jrowen 7mo ago
The analogy is about technology aiding operational efficiency. It ends there. You basically made a dramatic statement about Trump.
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by jrowen 8mo ago
In my experience the tools feel like they make sense when I use them properly, or at least I have a hard time relating the failure modes to this walk/drive thing with bizarre adversarial input. It just feels a little bit like garbage i
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by jrowen 8mo ago
I agree, I don't understand why this is a useful test. It's a borderline trick question, it's worded weirdly. What does it demonstrate?
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by jrowen 8mo ago
Someone that makes vibe coding tools would presumably want to have vibe coders on staff? If you're just not into the whole enterprise that's one thing but I'm not understanding what's fishy about that.
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by jrowen 8mo ago
It's telling me that I should rather focus on getting viral/lucky to get a shot at "success". Maybe I should network better to get "successful". I shouldn't be focusing on writing good code or good enough
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by jrowen 8mo ago
We should also mention that it's "not certain" that you will return safely if you leave your house.
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by jrowen 8mo ago
I was also unconvinced by that hand-wavy analysis. Basically, "parking is negative value because I don't like it, look at this graph I made up." In the US most places that aren't already highly urbanized are based on car
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by jrowen 8mo ago
I've encountered resistance to UBI from otherwise like-minded people because Musk and Thiel talk about it or something. When described as gradually lowering the social security age, it clicks. We already have this stuff. It's craz
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by jrowen 8mo ago
> The first half of your comment doesn't quite click for me. Anything specific? > When able bodied and minded people chose to spend their time playing zero and negative sum games instead of positive sum games we all lose. What ty
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by jrowen 8mo ago
> Have we? It feels like a lot of stuff in my life is unnecessarily expensive or hard to afford. Look at a bunch of job postings and ask yourself if that work is going to make things cheaper for you or better for society. We're not
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by jrowen 8mo ago
Also, can we just STFU about AI and jobs already? We've long since passed the point where there was a meaningful amount of work to be done for every adult. The number of "jobs" available is now merely a function of who contro
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by jrowen 8mo ago
> This is just based on the last 100 or so years of the average persons live quality being raised by astronomical amounts because of the paradigm of customer blindness. If you can point me in the direction of any sources of data or resea
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by jrowen 9mo ago
On some level though it does jive with "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need." Do you have an issue with textbooks being cheaper in India? If we live in a more socialist future where there are mechanis
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by jrowen 9mo ago
This is really interesting because I wholeheartedly believe the original sentiment that everyone thinks their generation is special, and that "now this time they've really screwed it all up" is quite myopic -- and that human
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by jrowen 9mo ago
There is always some set of people predicting all sorts of dooms though. The saying about the broken clock comes to mind. With the right cherry picking, it can always be said that [some set of] the doomsayers were right, or that they were w
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by jrowen 9mo ago
Is it clear that this will not go in a direction that actually pushes back on wealth inequality? It seems distasteful on the surface of course but could it be macroeconomically a good thing? Obviously the fatal flaw is that capitalists are
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by jrowen 9mo ago
WhatsApp is a bizarre name, and I think that contributes to it occupying a "lower rent" space than the others (the goofy chat background also helps). But I think most people ultimately gloss over the joke and it just becomes kind
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by jrowen 9mo ago
Not sure why this was killed. I think the point about mindfulness and intention is valid under the modern lens of "mindfulness" (as opposed to the older and more general concept of "be mindful of..."), which is closer to

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