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by psyc 5y ago
I’m puzzled as to who is acting when id Software, under Zenimax Media, under Microsoft, takes legal action.
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by psyc 5y ago
How or where did you acquire such specific beliefs about what minds can or cannot do?
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by psyc 5y ago
I can apply any character voice I can imagine to the inner voice. The default that I "hear" most of the time isn't even my voice - the timbre is a bit lower and more neutral, and it lacks my distinctive vocal affectations. Bu
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by psyc 5y ago
Do you not consider introspection a base level feature? I think the point of these aphantasia-related discussions is that people make wrong assumptions about what is base-level.
635.
by psyc 5y ago
And I thought everyone here knew they make React apps.
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by psyc 5y ago
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/AI-box_experiment
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by psyc 5y ago
I’m guessing serendipitously .
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by psyc 5y ago
I believe Gabriel Weinberg made DuckDuckGo and operated it mostly solo for the first few years.
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by psyc 5y ago
Meta can buy fresh blood. Oculus was acquired. Parts of Oculus were acquired and acquihired. If a smaller company innovates in this space, acquisition by Meta is an obvious business plan. Zuckerberg is a geek almost young enough to be my ki
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by psyc 5y ago
A company that already makes the best selling VR hardware by a healthy margin.
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by psyc 5y ago
For modern-ish examples of very smart optimization-minded programmers still having to work to fit exceptional experiences into hardware limitations, I recommend Jonathan Blow’s talk about fitting Braid’s time rewind system onto the XBox, Na
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by psyc 5y ago
Factorio’s visuals may be merely “nice”, but Factorio running a megabase in real time is pretty mind blowing, logically.
643.
by psyc 5y ago
Rightly or wrongly, the big players believe the way is to have more whales playing. However, I agree with you that Fortnite is the gold standard of how to do freemium.
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by psyc 5y ago
Absolutely true. It’s Fortnite’s DNA, and you would hear wailing in the streets out your window the day they broke that promise.
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by psyc 5y ago
I believe most if not all of it would have boiled down to data collection rules for kids. Some of that may have been specific to schools. The extent of those rules meant you could not simply bring the app into compliance without destroying
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by psyc 5y ago
It isn’t only grass roots amateurs who fail at this. Once upon a time, there was a medium sized org in a galaxy sized company, that set out to make a Moodle/Blackboard-like, but for all ages, and “cool” (like they knew what that was).
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by psyc 5y ago
If it makes you feel any better, I have pseudo-audible inner voices with no self-detectable subvocalization; but it’s never unbidden, and they never, ever seem like someone else talking, even when I’m role-playing the other side of a dialog
648.
by psyc 5y ago
Depends on what it is. my own thing: 10-14 hours in the zone, very little mental fatigue. A work thing: much closer to 10-14 minutes before I tab over to HN.
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by psyc 5y ago
I’ve definitely done math in a dream, checked the answer immediately upon waking, and it checked out. My brother reports the same. He also claims to exclusively dream lucidly.
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by psyc 5y ago
When others say they can see images and movies in their heads, and hear voices and play back songs in their heads, I believe I know exactly what they mean. Just as if they were describing itching or feeling cold. Yet some people respond wit
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by psyc 5y ago
When I read normally, I hear it in real time. There’s a “default” voice, or I can make it a character voice at will. If I want to read a lot faster, I switch the voice off. I seldom do that.
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by psyc 5y ago
And it was a trade off. I think most of us are well acquainted with the advertised advantages of open standards and web application architecture as we know it. But it came at the expense of both user experience and developer experience on p
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by psyc 5y ago
After several years of BASIC, I saved up and bought Watcom C++. At IIRC $600 (1995 dollars), it was literally the single largest purchase I’d ever made to date. As it turned out, I made a zillion-fold return on that particular investment, a
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by psyc 5y ago
It’s an expensive solution (heck I can’t even afford it at the moment) but my solution for this was a personal trainer. If I have an appointment with a human being who’s expecting me and will be cross if I don’t show, I’m going to go. After
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by psyc 5y ago
I found the post didn’t have enough substance to even be irritated by.
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by psyc 5y ago
VR the implementation is prone to false starts. I still don’t know whether this current wave will stick. But VR the concept is universal and inevitable. The idea of feeding artificial input to the biological senses, in order to place our co
657.
by psyc 5y ago
I suppose the dating market, much like the hiring market, is distorted by the intense aversion to false positives.
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by psyc 5y ago
It gave me the impression of a vignette from the Dune universe, as opposed to an epic space opera.
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by psyc 5y ago
And that doesn’t just mean legal had the reigns. It means a weird percentage of the top leadership were literally D.C. attorneys.
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by psyc 5y ago
I don’t expect many minds to change. I predict the “‘private’ [misnomer] companies can do what they want [broadly false]” crowd to dig in and rationalize why art is not a special case. My own hypothesis is they personally identify with the

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