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It seems like Nintendo is the only one I've heard of routinely doing it?

And I'm not sure why? I would have thought producing and refining new IP would be good to do now and again, at least releasing something novel once every few years?

Or perhaps they prefer just buying external IP.

> It's also rare you have a game that is allowed to improve the way Minecraft, Factorio, or Stardew Valley have

Honestly I think this is the hardest thing, I've spent a bit of time now trying to look at how indie works, including building out a small team to put something together and you either need to get funding, or it's pretty gruelling.

You can build something small slow and steady, but you've got to luck out and hit the zeitgeist if you don't want your project to collapse for a lack of money.

Or you have to have someone support you, I mean Stardew Valley famously was building for 4 years before they released, with his partner supporting him, that's a huge survivorship bias.

Project Zomboid is another game that comes to mind that's been being built for a long time for a dedicated community. However they managed to get a paid prototype out early, even though they had cash issues and a fair bit of bad luck.

Not sure what the story behind Factorio is come to think about it.

> and if you think you are the 'good' guy

I honestly never got why the belief that if you used this line of reasoning in practice, you were just a bad guy, that thought they were a good one, never seems to be a more common belief

I mean it pops up in media a lot, either as misguided, or deceptive characters

As someone who spent a lot of time supporting users and understanding their challenges with these tools, there's a lot of can you do X vs how can I do X, at least a 10x if not 100x difference.

IE: Model do this for me vs teach me.

Enough that I know people who have built businesses purely training people.

I do wonder whether you're comparing two different versions of chinese products?

IE, you're seeing and buying things they're selling directly, so they need to manage quality control, vs what is being sold on amazon, potentially a 3rd party seller who's cutting corners to make a nicer margin?

The problem with "it's hard to believe" is that this is an area where I'm not even sure how to effectively estimate the counterposition, I've seen things that I thought were interesting get cancelled or have no follow up all the time, and it makes sense, no idea if it will matter, or even work, and even if it does, how much will it cost to realise any value?

Who knows how often really impactful tech is gated behind some non-obvious thing which we never follow up on.

I mean Douglas Engelbart basically bet his entire career behind the Mother of All Demos[0], if it had flopped, modern computing as we know it would be fundamentally different, same with Hiroo Kinoshita and Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography[1][2], we just would have had Moore's law falling off a cliff.

-[0]: [The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY)

-[1]: https://spie.org/news/photonics-focus/mayjune-2023/developin...

-[2]: [The Closest Thing We Have to Alien Technology by Veritasium](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiUHjLxm3V0)

To add to what you're saying, that's also ignoring that having the time or ability to build really complex things in assembly is harder, higher level languages making things easier also enables people to do more complex things

Love that you're doing this, this has been on the backburner in my head for a long time, but I've never got around to it and this makes it worth looking at again.

Are there any downsides or issues that come with this setup? Easy ways to disable it for specific sites or temporarily? Especially for non-technical users?

Hey, just out of curiosity, what exactly does this mean?

    > (evidentiary below, curated above)

Specifically what is the above / below part?

Like if you said "curated below, evidentiary above", what should I understand has changed?

It would be the greatest irony if failing to manage the economic fallout of the coming AI revolution had a larger negative impact than the benefit it brings

We might just run into the worst recession in history as the heavily skewed service economy quickly runs out of customers who can afford to pay for it

Ok interesting, I've got a clearer idea of what you're looking for, the probabilities that are sprinkled in the report make a little bit more sense

Basically is this a done experience that I can have, if I'm summarising you correctly

> You can 100% predict where the weights “will take you” given a set of inputs.

Do you mean reproduce?

Sorry it's just if you are saying what your statement implying then either the model is very simple, or you've figured out something incredible

It's sort of depends on how you define done?

> Released, but content still planned

Silksong is like this, there are other games where they release patches for years?

Is done no longer supported? I ask because take any paradox grand strategy game, if I understand your rubric, they're done only if they are no longer the supported mainline game, IE Crusader Kings 2 is done, as 3 is where all the support is going?

I spotted this today, never heard about Bob Chapman before, though I've regularly watched Simon Sinek

Doing a quick search for "Bob Chapman" didn't bring up any results, so I thought it was worth sharing the interview here

He's run a successful American manufacturing firm for decades and he attributes this to his leadership philosophy of caring for his workers

The first time I ever saw Rocky Horror was in a public screening during university, some friends dressed up and as I had no idea what I'd been invited to I was trying to work out why everyone was wearing these big coats

Then we hit the theater and the coats came off and I was trying to work out what the hell I'd got myself into

I'd seen Tim Curry before in Home Alone 2, but seeing him as Frank-N-Furter, strutting his stuff on the screen, that was iconic

What a show, that man knew how to commit

I keep thinking this and maybe I'm missing something, but I'd love to be able to opt for something in this direction, some old school constraints, I feel like we should be able to do something pretty magical these days

For example, is there a version of linux that I'm missing? I've not run a desktop linux box in over a decade, any suggestions would be great, or is everyone happily running ubuntu / fedora?

Is the word list complete?

I tried WEIRD and it rejected it as not a word

Well that's a new experience, I naively googled for "Fur svtherf bhg gung gurl gnyx nobhg crbcyr nf bowrpgf gb or bjarq" and gemini responded to the text without rot13ing it, so I had no idea why it was telling me what it told me, I had to decode it to make sense of it's answer

TIL Gemini can respond to rot13

There's an interesting part of this that's mentioned in the comments that the original author states:

> Haha I had a section in this, but cut it, about how people jokingly suggest we should include one regular person in every Olympic event to show just how astounding Olympic athletes are, and this is also a good idea for art...

I've been getting into fiction writing a bit recently and learning to focus on incremental improvement is necessary, for example, getting feedback and trying to find good venues to get it is a challenge because getting helpful constructive feedback is hard

I'm beginning to wonder if, because the skill level of the creators of media the average person consumes on a regular basis is so high, it's actually difficult to get good feedback for learning from by asking them until you get to a minimum baseline of skill and improvement is constrained by finding environments that can provide high quality feedback

> Instead I've started thinking about books in terms of "book of the month", "book of the year", "book of the decade", "book of the century", et cetera. Is this going to be the best thing I read all month or all decade? Am I going to remember this for a year or forget most of it next week?

This is a wonderful thought, I thank you for it

adjohu, I thought that the messages were a standard multi-message conversation as opposed to a one shot where each message is treated independently, at least that's the impression I get as static doesn't appear to acknowledge the prior messages at all

It's really funny, I've read this essay before a long time ago and it's really interesting playing back the many times both in realising it in retrospect and having seen it playing out before my eyes, that the last part really comes to the fore

    > One final point: I expect none of you to really get what I’m talking about here, because this principle also applies to itself. But I fully expect I’ll get the occasional email saying “Oh! so that’s what you meant.” or “Why didn’t you tell me that?” I did, but you can’t tell people anything.

In my youthful naivety I thought I understood this, but now years later I can more deeply appreciate the message that you really can't tell people anything

This is an interesting position, what makes you believe that a decline in positions in the middle would lead to an increase in positions at the top vs just more people stuck being on the bottom rungs of the ladder?

I've been wondering about this, in some sense we might hit a big cultural black hole where all these cool things that we've created in the last few decades just are functionally lost and all the amazing things of the previous generation that could be found on archive, roms, stuff on CD's / DVD's etc are what actually have cultural value going forwards

Everything else is in this position of "actively at risk" where if someone isn't "keeping it up" it may just disappear, at least until it gets orphaned, in which case I suppose reverse engineering is back on the table

I know right? I felt I had to share it for fellow fans

I enjoyed Thimbleweed Park personally, however for all those old Monkey Island fans like myself I'd encourage you to read this[0] analysis of the game series and lore to uncover the secret of Monkey Island by DM81

I found it a really enjoyable read and a plausible take, so I thought it was worth sharing here

It's relevant as it's posted in the Thimbleweed Park forums ;)

-[0]: https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/return-to-monkey-island...

It seems that radio stations outside the UK cannot be listened to, can you listen to any stations outside your country?

Colour me curious, my email is in my profile, fire me an invite code!

> the powerful will forget their obsession with controlling and exploiting others I do find this line of reasoning overly simplistic

The drive some individuals have to control / exploit others isn't limited to the rich, they're just in a better position to exercise it

There are people who have absolutely no interest in what other people around them are doing; there are others who will move heaven and earth to help those around them whenever they can, even at the expense of their own interests; others still who can't help but compare themselves to everyone and make it everyone else's problem if they find themselves lacking; and yet others who at all costs want people to afford them "respect" which when you drill into it means stroking their ego

I'm sure we've all experienced petty individuals who've been granted just enough power that they can gain personal satisfaction from leveraging it to make themselves feel better at the expense of all other considerations

These are all just some of the many flavours of humanity

Would you mind sending me an email, I'd genuinely be interested in collaborating in this if you're interested, even if it's only brainstorming / discussing

I've been looking at a new fun thing to focus on for a bit and this could be a great contender

No worries if you don't feel like it, this is still a positive indicator :)