Apocryphon

FAANG Simulator: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48836778

That game is more of an idle / clicker game, and while I quite enjoyed the one from a few months ago about being a SWE in SF, the shtick wears thin quickly especially if you’re not in the niche that identifies with all the in-jokes.

There's probably something to be said as well that modern work, at least in American culture, really chips away at work-life boundaries. I understand one might want to stay late at work for all sorts of reasons. But perhaps one shouldn't have to the detriment of one's own personal life, whether familial or otherwise.

Urbanization and industrialization is social and economic.

Did they at least rent a house? If not, how spacious was their apartment, how accessible was outside space for the kids to play in? If so, what was the percentage of their income was the rent?

Isn't that a mixture of because they don't expect every child to survive to adulthood, and/or these are subsistence agricultural areas who need more manual labor?

The U.S. birth rate fell around 20% after the Great Recession and has never risen since. Seems like this is a pretty significant angle to focus on!

https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/data-snapshot-ten-years-a...

https://econofact.org/the-mystery-of-the-declining-u-s-birth...

You are still writing in generalities. You need to actually pick a prominent study and state how it specifically mistakes correlation for causation. Just saying “oh all the existing science is wrong” doesn’t advance your argument. You’re assuming the reader knows what you’re talking about.

I don’t have any vested interest in upholding those studies, for all I know you might be entirely right. But if they’re the only studies out right now, the onus is on you, as a minority dissenter, to say specifically why they’re wrong. To just handwave it away is to undercut your own position because it makes you look like a crank who is just casually attacking the state of the field. And in the context of a forum such as this, it’s very off-putting, obnoxious behavior.

You’d get no pushback if you actually substantiated your points rather than tossing around general criticisms.

Never knew of Golding’s post-Flies bibliography. Sounds like it’s worth diving into! And wonder if his relationship to Monteith is worth some sort of dramatization.

Nope, it’s on you to either provide counter-studies first, or even just provide one solid, concrete example of what issue you have with these studies, rather than just handwaving them away as if such a rhetorical flourish can substantiate any sort of argument.

They made that game 20 years ago:

https://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/

Independently of the actual state of the art, and the social implications and everything, my main takeaway from Her was always the initial setup of Samantha (huh, now that's some eerie nominative coincidence), wherein the AI curates his email inbox. That is the mundane chore that's always been my dream AI use case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9Hg1x-Ctlw

Did you just accuse others of not being science-based, while casually handwaving studies away?

But what about the high expenses?

Yes:

> So the fastest JSON serializer for .NET now is developed by CAPCOM as part of their game engine that powers Resident Evil / Biohazard

https://x.com/edandersen/status/2105845938296394082

You're thinking of The Register.

tbh, there is some novelty when AI first imitates a distinct human style. And then it gets old immediately after not unlike when VC Twitter discovered AI could imitate Studio Ghibli art.

Your comment deserves more responses. The observation that leisure becomes work is definitely true for contemporary video games, many of which are stuffed with so many "busywork" features and mini-games that they become tedium, like another job. And since ancient times, the wealthy have hunted for recreation, almost like simulating the need to directly acquire food in the wild that they have lost.

Avoiding everything that is a drag is a universal experience for young people in the entire history of the world. The point is that they eventually find value in the toil later on in the process, and when they're older have to drag the next generation into the cycle.

Faster Linux screensavers

Not a nation-state actor within international relations, but an entity that acts on behalf of the government within constitutional law.

Yeah, what happened after the Toyota Prius?

Don't they have existing EV models, though?

I’d mostly be concerned about getting robbed while having my vision obscured.

Unless you’re Amish, Hutterite, or Old Order Mennonite, your descendants are unlikely to continue that tradition.

The U.S. birthrate hit historic lows during the Great Depression. It also dropped with the 2008 Recession and has never went up since.

It's dropping almost everywhere because the world is slowing urbanizing and abandoning subsistence agriculture.

Remember how the original Mission Impossible movie (1996) was about the bad guys getting the NOC list? This feels somehow even worse than that.

That's a classic calling card of LLM prose but that doesn't mean they actually used an AI. Though sure, it would be nice if we gave this style a name and then abolished it.

Whither Mistral? Or Yoshua Bengio?