mcphage

>> Europe waking up would even be good for the US long term.

> "Things are going to be so much better when we needlessly make them shittier."

I don’t think Europe becoming more competitive would make things shittier at all. Why do you think that?

> You’re right, I did accidentally slaughter all the residents of Béziers. I won’t do that again. But I think that you’ll find God knows his own.

> EDIT: Just looked up at 'time to beat' that completionist average is 48h and now I feel very stupid... I find that kind of hard to believe

I don’t know where that site gets its data, but yeah, I wouldn’t put any particular stock in it.

> it would still last about ten minutes. Not sure how this is relevant to anything.

I don't think there's much doubt about a US success if it came to that. The relevance—and yes, this is highly relevant—is to determine what would be left of the current world order after those "ten minutes".

> Nobody is going to war over this and Denmark/EU wants to save face.

I'm not so sure. Between all of Trump antics, and Russia's invasions, I think they're starting to realize that if you let the bully take the small things you don't especially care about, they're just going to demand bigger things.

> What purpose does this serve other than to incite violence?

Does this mean you imagine them beyond the law?

> I'm sorry that makes you feel a certain way but stupid actions have stupid consequences.

I’m sorry this leak makes you feel a certain way, but see the above.

> Sure, if some bad actors can be sued/prosecuted

And if they can’t be?

> The mayor of NYC is a socialist

> the core tenet of Socialism replacing capitalism

You can say Mamdani is a socialist. You can say the core tenet of socialism is replacing capitalism. But you can't say both. If Mamdani is a socialist, then replacing capitalism is not the core tenet of socialism. If the core tenet of socialism is replacing capitalism, then Mamdani is not a socialist. Those two things do not go together.

> Then how is it being reflected in Congress?

“What people support” and “what politicians do” isn’t as strongly correlated as one might hope.

> I am not a USAian, thank goodness.

I didn’t say that you were. I said that you were a fool, which you are.

> This means that less than 20% of the people (those who voted of course) wanted Macron. On his first day, more than 80% didn't want him.

That’s not true. “I want someone else more than X” isn’t the same as “I don’t want X”. That’s the advantage of Approval voting and Ranked Choice voting—you can make those things clear.

I’m not sure it’s the author’s fault that there are world class museums all over the world.

I do love it there (my family have been members for years), but it’s more for kids than adults.

The Udvar-Hazy Center is utterly amazing. It’s like someone said “hey, you like planes? Here’s all of them. And they’re just there, you can walk up close to them. I took my family for the first time this summer, when we heard they were going to lose the Space Shuttle, and we all loved it.

> So even if a task costs $8 today thanks to VC subsidies, I can be reasonably confident that the same task will cost $8 or less without subsidies in the not-too-distant future.

The same task on the same LLM will cost $8 or less. But that's not what vendors will be selling, nor what users will be buying. They'll be buying the same task on a newer LLM. The results will be better, but the price will be higher than the same task on the original LLM.

> but not how things work on the streets, at least in NYC

Then how do things work on the streets in NYC?

> Police will not arrest if the DA won't prosecute.

Why not? If the police are frustrated that the DAs aren’t doing their job, I don’t think it helps the police any to choose to also not do their job. Especially since DAs are often elected, which means it’s easier to replace them if the police can show that they (the DA) are the bottleneck. But if the police don’t do their job first, then the police are the bottleneck.

That means more wars.

You really need to figure out how to get the police to do their job.

Well, like they say: the purpose of a system is what it does.

Are we? Your very next line was about buying something from a street merchant.

You just took it back to the store, there was no shipping involved.

> Eventually the concept of refunds will become very rare.

I don’t think so—it makes the risk of purchase too high, and people will buy less. Which is not what the sellers want.

> it, along with free shipping were pretty rare before Amazon and Walmart.

Refunds were not rare before Walmart and Amazon.

> There is also little possibility for political persuasion on Bluesky, which has a user base that’s a fraction of the size of X’s, and has far fewer news influencers.

Well, yeah—that’s a big part of why I’m there instead of on Twitter. But that’s a feature, not a bug.

> Claude produced the solution independently based on a description of the problem

The description that came out of the year of project refinement that had already occurred?

Meta has been responsible for a lot worse than merely dopamine peddling.

The trick is you hold the controller in your limp hands, with your fingertip resting on one of the channel buttons. Usually the plus. So when you want to swipe you just extend your index finger just a fraction of an inch. And the screen changes. They dialed in the interface over years, and have gotten it to a process with almost no work involved.

Personally, if ChatGPT told me the sky was blue, I’d go out and check. But if you’re someone who takes advice from ChatGPT, maybe? It’s not like I don’t ever go to McDonalds.

It's like TikTok but you hit buttons instead of swiping.