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And don't forget the inevitable graffiti. The uncreative will simply spray random words and letters, but the deep thinkers among us may have the wit to draw a penis on it.

I also think more accurate. The opening sentence of Neuromancer is one of the most beautifully perfect metaphors I've ever read - one that's also chock full of symbolism. It may be…

Russia is neither forcibly conscripting nor are they preventing anyone from leaving the country should they wish. Ukraine is doing both at an increasingly absurd scale, all the whi…

For things like this I don't think you can view it as a destination, but rather a journey. Your mind, body, and any skill will deteriorate over time if not regularly trained, so it…

Further claims from Ukraine: they've had 30,000 total deaths, are inflicting casualties at a 10:1 rate, have a 'Ghost of Kyiv' single handedly flying around taking on Russia, Russi…

Probably driven in large part by the expansion of the voting pool. Great political thinkers have no more appeal to the masses at large than Beethoven, Dostoevsky, or Linux. So we g…

This is complete nonsense. There's no shortage of low still, low wage jobs - most of which would pay better in the longrun, have opportunities for advancement, and so on. But they …

There are lots of people that enjoy the 'gig' jobs because of the freedom to work (or not) whenever they want.

LLMs are 100% deterministic. The facade of randomness is injected solely by a superfluous rng factor.

There is again no need for first person pronouns there. E.g. 'File not found' vs 'Sorry I could not find the file you were looking for.' Same stuff, but one just adds an artificial…

So is a command prompt.

You ellipsed out the answer - economic opportunity.

I think you may have misread his post. He was not speaking of being born and raised in an area but his thought experiment was swapping out people explicitly from different cultures…

And so if you went to Saudi Arabia you'd pretend to be down with executing people for apostasy? Obviously it's an extreme example but many of the norms of a Western mindset would b…

This is commonly stated but seems more driven by ideology than science. People's racial identity is near to perfectly correlated with their genetic identity as can be ascertained w…

Similar experience/perspective as the gp. People in different places are, in many if not most cases, just fundamentally different in countless ways. I think both genetics (personal…

He's implying causality the other way. A desire to not want to die paired with a desire to avoid traditional religion leads people to indulge ideas and concepts they would otherwis…

There's obviously many more long tail games, but with few exceptions games, even long tailed, tend to be heavily front loaded. The list, in terms of games from e.g. 2018-2023 will …

It set the standard for online matchmaking, had exceptional (if not revolutionary) AI for an FPS, phenomenal level design, and is a definite competitor for the best game soundtrack…

Think about what you're saying - the majority of those games are at least 16 years old. That itself is fairly damning but what puts it over the top is that there are wayyyy more ga…

Think about all the hours you've spent doing what we all do on this site which is, ultimately, nothing. Imagine if you had directed those hours towards learning or training some so…

You can keep getting rich off shovels long after the gold has run dry.

At my university I know at least one person who intentionally tested positive soley for profit - the drugs sold/sell for huge markups, especially around exam time. No idea what all…

Meh results oriented thinking. Elon revolutionized rockets and electrical vehicles with 0 previous domain knowledge. In another timeline both concepts fail and he's just another cl…

I did multiple accounts with no problem, but in trying to do you I got the same error. You've broke the system.