hypertele-Xii

> Oneself is the only thing important in one's life.

Also known as narcissism.

Incorrect. The tapeworm can choose where and how in the gut it exists. It can choose how much it leeches from its host. There are always choices to be made that direct our evolution, for you, me, the wasp, and the tapeworm.

Your attitude is fatalistic. You're saying we're all doomed to repeat the mistakes of our ancestors until we die or get lucky. That's a belief. A false one at that.

It literally is though. Sexual selection, emphasis on selection, is conscious. You choose half the genes of your descendants. Unless there's only one mating option. You also choose where you hang, and what you eat, which drives adaptations to that environment.

The wasp can choose to start integrating non-caterpillar food sources into its diet, reducing suffering at first while it evolves the necessary digestive system, ultimately minimizing and eliminating suffering.

Wasps are somewhat doomed that they haven't made this choice before. The pit gets deeper and deeper the more you dig. The climb will be longer and harder the later you start.

If fish can learn to breathe air, walk on land, and care for their young, wasps can learn to not eat caterpillars.

This is me. I have an IQ of 163. All I heard my entire childhood was "you're so smart, you don't need help, you just have an attitude problem". Was placed in the only special class in school, where all the kids from the other side of the normal distribution were placed - retards, bullies, etc.

Got beaten every day until I learned to fight back. At what point was I supposed to have the time and energy to learn? There were no role models. My parents are horrible. Just skipped school as much as I could to play with tech/computers. Still unproven if all my experience amounts to anything. A genius quietly suffering in poverty and loneliness, fallen off every bandwagon, used and abused, desperately trying to achieve literally anything.

The worst part is the chronic thinking that I could've/should've/would've done something amazing, if a single shit had been given at any point along the way. Such a waste of human potential. Even if it wasn't my fault as a child, it's my responsibility to fix as a developmentally disabled adult. To this day nobody gives a shit. So I work out, do what little work I can, cry myself to sleep, and pray for God to use me as an instrument for good.

The next 10 years will make or break me.

I can consult you on that subject if you want to chat.

I'm polar opposite - ideas coming out the wazoo, like on average 1 idea per day, after decades of research into game design, but I dread moving into production and programming. Not for lack of experience, as chief of infotech I brought business-grade software projects from whiteboard to screen, but talking to a computer is just tedious. So much plumbing.

I've seen plenty of people do nothing but drink alcohol, smoke tobacco, and complain, all day, every day, year after year.

You might argue that it's the alcohol doing the zombification but I posit that surely the tobacco also has something to do in this equation.

More like cultivate gardens.

That's both sexist and ageist. Old men's opinions are deserving of consideration as any other.

Nice try, Putin. I'm not VPN-ing my traffic through Russia :)

> Think of a highway ad.

Equally annoying, I'd block those too if I could.

Can you comment on these?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU5MYV0CtpU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERPlfZn8JwE

Experimental art videos of similar sort I made a while back.

> uses wave function collapse to generate levels.

Are you sure? I've contributed to DCSS and to my knowledge most of the map generation algorithms are predictably ancient. It's been a while though... is it a recent addition?

On the contrary, the fix is trivial: Don't give them any money.

Google removed "Don't be evil", so we know they do evil. Facebook disbaneded responsible AI team, so we know they do AI irresponsibly. I love greedy evil corporations telling on themselves.

There's an even better free way for students to use it - with adblocker! It even saves Google the bandwidth of streaming the ads! How considerate!

Oh kind of like how Google has been freeloading on our private data for decades? Yep you're right, Google isn't honest enough, so I'm happy to stick it to them.

Considering Google and advertizers have been scamming us for decades, I'm just clawing payback.

Iron and lithium corrode and rust away exposed to air. There wouldn't be any iron nor lithium artifacts thousands of years old.

One word: Fertilizer.

AdBlocker Ultimate still works. I just blocked the nagging popup element.

The carbon nanotubes looks oddly AI-generated to my eyes.

https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/images/photos/2023/_photo160...

While you're technically correct, the protocol is resilient to such attack, as the number of people participating in a particular torrent is a good indicator of its validity. After all, everyone who was fooled will delete and stop sharing such items.

New releases of something that just came out tend to suffer from this, though. Sometimes the counterfeits reach escape velocity - the rate of people joining in downloading the counterfeit exceed the rate of people realizing and stopping, thus giving the illusion of a legit torrent.

Currently this problem is being solved by torrent sites' reputation and comment systems. If we imagine a world where only decentralized indexes like Bitmagnet exist, your prediction is 100% accurate. This only works if reputation from a reliable site is bootstrapping the initial popularity of a torrent.

Okay, feel free to explain why EA Sports FC 24, the thirtyfirst installment of a soccer video game in the past 30 years from EA is what people need, and how this marketing copy:

> Play before 1 Nov to become a Founder and get exclusive benefits in EA SPORTS FC™ 24

isn't "manufacturing need".

> I dont understand how we get to a place where resources are allocated to build things that people dont actually need?

Resources are allocated to build things that can be sold to people.

In an ideal world, that's the very things they need.

But we don't live in an ideal world, need can be manufactured, and that's precisely what the entire industry of marketing is all about.

Then there's the industrial argument to consider. You build a factory to satisfy a need. After the need is satisfied for everyone, you still have a factory that's tooled in specific ways to produce specific products... and if you can make minimal changes and re-sell the same product with a new coat of paint, you make more money. Retooling is expensive.

GPT-3 requires 700 gigabytes of GPU RAM. I'm looking at my cheapest computer components retailer listing a 48 gigabyte GPU at $5k. So to run the previous generation of GPT would cost me about $70k right now. When do you think I can expect to run GPT-4 on my consumer $device? :)

So you won't be able to do anything without Internet connection to the AI mainframe? No thanks.

And government has freedom to restrict business from restricting their users freedom to do what they want with the products they bought.

I feel like we're going around in circles.

Imagine the richness of retro gaming today if they had had the foresight to design for resolution independence. Now only a vanishingly tiny subset of the best of the best games have the financial incentive or dedicated modding community to release in high definition.