manifestsilence

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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Neverhood and Samorost are also fun. The latter is by the Machinarium creators.
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Definitely by later (early Windows) games, this is true. Neverhood was a very fun one where it was advertised that there was only one way to die. And that was marked, "don't do this, you will die".
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Pygame is still alive and great. It even has built-in support for game controllers, and nice stuff for managing sound effects.
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Yes! There's a quote that resonated with me: "Some people do the dishes to make them clean. Some people do the dishes to do the dishes." Valuing the experience that is happening, whatever it may be, has power.
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Awesome, thank you for clarifying!
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
I'm not either, but I think it depends on which system you're working from within. There's the ugly, beautiful thing from Godel's second incompleteness theorem saying a formal system cannot prove its own consistency from
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Wow, this could eventually enable some pretty amazing stuff. I'm just a hobbyist, but this makes me think about how machine search through the space of possible theorems butts up against the halting problem and/or Godel's the
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Great phrase, "fall into the scissor". I think the brilliance of this story is not whether it represents a truly plausible scenario, but that it creates a meme that is anti-divisive. These kinds of things have real power. I hope y
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Funny how this story is itself a scissor. I loved it and thought that, although exaggerated, it did a really good job of being a piece of hard science fiction. Relatively plausible but somewhat future technology (better RNN implementations
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Yeah, I think the more general problem is people can only get so enraged if they realize it's a bot. So the sentences have to be good enough to pass a perfunctory Turing test. The math is only one of several tells in these.
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Funny thing though - I could see that statement being particularly enraging once a large enough and random enough group got behind debating it. These statements don't have to make logical sense, they only have to trigger people into in
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
I don't have git installed here, if anyone else wants to put in a PR for this one. :)
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Ah, fair enough. I guess it's just that the Matrix became popular with a much wider crowd who had never heard of Neuromancer and so weren't aware of the genre's existence or origins and thought it was more out of the blue tha
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Yeah, that's how I'm doing them. Agreed, great narration.
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Yeah, the computer stuff in it is pretty hand-wavey but it does an awesome job of creating memorable visuals out of totally abstract AI and network stuff. And definitely notable as the seemingly uncredited inspiration for the Matrix.
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
I would add: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor. Premise is a software engineer is killed by a car on his first day of retirement and wakes up 300 years in the future as an AI consciousness. It has absolutely loving attention to
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
A lot of people focus on the creepy factor, but I'd argue that this is vegan and a lot of people have health needs that aren't easily met without eating meat. Plus the article emphasizes the eco-friendly ramifications of this. Sou
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
I'm not a mathematician, but I'd say that it's one of the simplest and most elegant instances of its kind, and that in general we don't seem to have good ways of dealing with iterative processes that can both lengthen an
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Bing has issues with not scraping dynamic content very well if at all. We had to eliminate libraries that render important content after page load with javascript because they'd show up on Google but not Bing.
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Thanks for the recommendation!
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Yep. Often when people take the time to have a more thoughtful argument where they seek common ground instead of "winning", they quickly find that the differences are not in the logic and semantic games they were playing, but were
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Yeah, I agree with the sense of mystery you talk about. To me the two great, and linked, mysteries are why matter, space, time, etc. exists at all, and why some part of it experiences it in a self-aware way. They're both meta-questions
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Yes! The hard realization, which pulled me into more normal programming despite a passion for games, was that game development is a passion career. I already had enough dealings with that with considering being an orchestral performer. Anyt
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Sure, but in assessing risk, it pays to not overestimate our ability to predict the world. Some model subjects, such as the stock market and the weather, exhibit chaotic behavior. Those who try to ignore that fact get burned.
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
But in the case of the potato and apple, one has the ability to unplug the nose and tell the difference. If no one had any senses that could distinguish them under any circumstances, then it would be different. This comes down to something
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
The only sane and productive model of consciousness I've encountered (and I've been around a bunch through growing up in the Transcendental Meditation movement) has been the one described in Hofstadter's works, such as Godel,
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
The problem isn't even one of over-simplification; it's that logic does not inherently possess values. Logic can only tell you whether a conclusion follows from premises, not whether those premises are correct. It can tell you whe
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
I think money is one of the few things that really does approach a zero sum game. If you have more money, even if you printed it yourself, it deflates the value of everyone else's money when you spend it. What is not zero sum are the a
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
That makes me think prairie may compete well with forests in effectiveness. Many prairie plants have 10' roots or more, and the root systems are dense. Over time they do quite a bit for the soil and sequester a lot of biomass.
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
That's an important point - where those trees go when they die is part of the puzzle. Systems thinking is important. When a tree decays, I wonder how much carbon goes into the soil vs. into the air. What about when a forest fire goes t

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