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It's neat, but I'm not entirely sure what the animations contribute. What's neat about games like RollerCoaster Tycoon is watching this entire map full of things happening without needing to be controlled, but this doesn't really have that. There's your vehicle moving around, and there's people wandering around, but they're not doing anything. It doesn't feel like a factory of connected components.

The rice piles in that picture are uncomfortably regular.

Agreed.

> If people genuinely, actually care about energy costs, they can vocally support when calls for setting your thermostat at 78F in summertime go out.

Or, we can prefer energy being spent on air conditioning, and not on data centers.

> making an assumption that they must have only or mostly non-religions motives

I don't know anything about their motives, I just think we should start with the basic assumption—until proven wrong, of course—that they understand the consequences of their actions.

> Iranian regime is on a path of creating nuclear weapons and they are going to do use it again Israel

That's a really big claim. I don't think you can just assert that Iran is suicidal without having some sort of evidence to back it up.

It's a significant difference.

There's also the bit where none of us cold be old enough to remember it in person, and so everything we say about it is just vibes that we picked up from the internet.

That’s up there with unpopular opinion “I like the feeling when I’m washing my hands and the ends of my sleeves get wet”.

It would come off as bland writing, but I don’t think you’d jump to assuming it was written by a computer. If you got exposed to just how much AI writing was out there, you’d definitely feel like there was something really strange going on. You’d wonder why so much text was written in the same insipid voice.

Talk about the gift that keeps on giving…

For the Modern American version of that—last time I was in an Urgent Care, they had a tv playing one of the Sharknado movies. The security guard there was excited to show everyone the bit where he was an extra in the film.

> Fake ad clicks cost the advertiser money, not the ad company.

It also diminishes the value of the clicks provided by the ad company. It doesn't cost them dollars directly, but makes all their advertising worth less.

> I do not see problems with fake ad clicks and have no sympathy for ad companies.

Yeah, it's like—a cheap streaming stick AND it poisons the advertising well? I'm pretty happy with my Fire TV Stick, but they're really tempting me here.

> I've been kind of puzzled, since the first time I gave it any thought, why "going to a movie" is culturally thought of as an activity one does with a companion, even a date.

Because after going to the movie, you've all seen it, and so can talk about it with each other.

> spend maybe 5-10 minutes critiquing or raving as you walk out.

It's not just for that trip, but it'll be a shared touchpoint. And if it's something you really enjoyed, it's something you'll be able to talk about together for years—like going to see Star Wars as a kid.

> Where does my logic break down? What am I overlooking?

(1) Clothing manufacturing is a lot more complicated than sockets

(2) Generally products aren't discontinued because they're popular. So what you're describing is a lot of cost, for products that a lot of people don't care about.

(3) Even if someone did write up a spec for a t-shirt—what would you do with it?

(4) The need for standards is a lot more important for things like sockets which have multiple ends, and need to ensure that both sides work consistently, than for things like a piece of clothing where there's a single wearer at a time.

…then why does the page keep saying it’s always possible in less than 5 questions, if it sometimes requires 5 questions?

It's honeypots all the way down.

I'm not sure I understand. In the 4 card case, there are 4! or 24 different arrangements. So a total of ~4.5 bits. Each question gives you at most 1 bit of information. So it would seem like it takes up to 5 questions, but the page repeatedly says "you can always find which card is which in under 5 questions". Is there a technique I am missing?

And all it will cost them will be a huge settlement!

Thank you! I don’t know much about Zoroastrianism, and that discussion jumps right into the deep end, but I’ll see what I can get from it. :-)

I’m not the person you’re replying to, but I’m interested if you could find that link later.

> Does this not very simply constitute a large scale attack on civilian infrastructure?

No.

It's either that or let Google strangle them.

They are! Coincidentally, there's been a precipitous decline in software quality and reliability the last few years.

> I think theft is bad everywhere, not just when Anthropic does it.

It seems like you think theft is bad everywhere except when Anthropic does it.

Families come in all shapes and sizes, even for the ancient Egyptians!

> Is poverty a requirement for being a good person?

Do you suppose those are the only two options? Poverty or billionaire?

What year was your son born? Nobody has said “Silly Billy” in 30 years, unless under the auspices of a duly appointed official.

> When did humanity first figure out that inbreeding might be a bad idea?

I suspect it was prior to recorded history.