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Shields Up 3 years ago

You don't need a Shields Up button to have a little self control on the internet. Seth is energized after a day on the internet. This blog post is about "we" being exhausted aka "you". Not Seth. If you are reading this, you can do it.

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine

Shields Up 3 years ago

My thoughts and experience as well. Seth does not suffer or get exhausted online. He's had his list of what to avoid internalized for a long time. As do I. Believe it or not, you have some agency when using the internet. Even in the face of "the algorithm" (what that has come to mean).

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine

SVB Hall of Shame 3 years ago

It wasn't a prisoner's dilemma. Cooperating gets you almost nothing while defecting gives you benefit. It was nearly the opposite of the prisoner's dilemma. Couldn't another school of thought "blame" those who didn't participate loudly?

Fwiw, your rant did not convince me.

I estimate that astronomers need to know about tradeoffs on a telescopes' settings for the data they are looking at. But I'm unconvinced that they necessarily need to know how to operate it (would depend on the workplace) and I certainly disagree that how they are constructed is absolutely necessary for all astronomers.

More knowledge is always good, so of course learn what you want. But it's not being "ashamed of tools" to say that a CS degree should "do one thing and do it well".

Additionally, we can simultaneously say that a university should encourage tool mastery while also saying that they don't need to teach entire courses on it.

My university had Dijkstra's quote "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes". They made us aware of tools and we were free to use them as little or as much as possible to do the science. I always assumed that software engineering degrees focused on tools more than computer science degrees (among other differences).

  -Meet Markus at a con  
  -Markus best friend now  
  -Play Minecraft for days
  -Write poem
  -Markus says "I ain't reading all that, ship it! We have a deadline!"
  -Take the money and run
  -Enjoy cold hard cash instead of speculating on royalties
  -Trip on shrooms on squatted land
  -Try to squat poem
  -"Dear Microsoft I don't care about laws. Love love love."
  -Love love love
  -Money money money plz
  -Love love love

I was confused for a few sentences when the giver/taker terms were used without explicit definition. I assumed they were used to denote information givers/takers but the definition is more like spotlight giver/takers

One time I made a "Hitler finds out"* meme and uploaded it to youtube. My video immediately got 2 copyright claims on it. One was for the video and was probably by the film rights holders. The other was for the audio and it was this song! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSlbcRumfwk I assumed that this was some kind of scheme. The audio claim has since been removed (not by me and I don't know when).

* https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hitlers-downfall-parodies

The author is correct about centralized NFTs not being what you expect them to be. They are wrong that NFTs are debunked. A true web3 game will never have the servers shut down. Everyone collectively pays for the server costs. Every time you do something in the game, you pay for your little slice of server time.

Yeah I'm a little surprised he regrets it. I guess he assumes that a freelancer would have done the same work since his takeaway says so. He may have indeed gotten "service normally reserved for large companies despite my limited budget".

Web3 games will never be shut down (if properly decentralized). The "game server" is effectively pay-as-you-go.

NFTs grafted on to web2 games is a start of player owned gaming, but true web3 games will be wholly player owned.

These shutdowns (along with things like Diablo's Error 37 launch) are why gamers will gravitate to games they can't get rug pulled on.

Financial education and common sense are at all time highs at a global, hundred years zoom level. If you are trying to make a claim about your region on a shorter time scale, I could believe it. Same for "people want money more than ever". Could be true for your bubble, country, etc but is not globally/100 year window. But of course this claim is hard to measure.

Imo most people who spend time resisting things like AI and Blockchain will spin their wheels before being lumped in with the Luddites. Make sure tech is used correctly because you aren't stopping it. Even if you "stop" a given tech in your country, many other countries will embrace it and leave you out of the conversation.

This is true for so many other aspects of life as well. Things are the way they are for a reason. Not understanding the deep and complex factors that got the system to where it is dooms you to repeat the mistakes of the past. This is why I go for depth on what I complain and ideate on rather than breadth. Dive deep on something you care about instead of having an opinion about everything. Humans have done well with specialization. If you enjoy breadth, go for it. I just don't see it as very effective.

I suppose that complaining without proposing solutions is akin to protesting. You may not necessarily know what you want specifically, but you don't want the current system.