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The agent will happily fix that for them. They are through like that.

But what would we consider conscious?

My position is that there is no actual, definitive answer to that question, and therefore it makes no sense engaging with the concept.

I can make an AI system with a survival instinct right now. Of course, all that will do is make people tell me “it’s not a proper survival instinct” or move the goal posts and tell me I need yet some other property.

This whole endeavor is doomed from the beginning. There is no crucial test for “consciousness”, just ad hoc criteria people come up with to land on the conclusions that leave their belief system intact.

Consciousness is not a concept that can be rendered operational.

That’s fair. I’ll delete.

You can’t forget to take class W mnestics. Not unless someone prevents you from taking them.

All the stores I can get to within a reasonable time period stock ISO keyboards instead of ANSI, and I've never really warmed up to those. So I'm stuck with next-day even for macs.

As an aside, I have never seen a decent license for user generated content. Either they expose the platform to serious liability, or they come across as incredibly predatory.

Wait, what's the story of the sailboat trip? My searches are coming up empty, but it sounds like a great story.

The north sea is 34 grams per litre. The Mediterranean is 38. For my pasta I use 10, and that's on the high end.

Honestly? I think they are just rationalizing away their respective midlife crises.

Again, you are ignoring the identity based systems they describe, that have been in place for centuries before either of them were born.

You know which ones I mean.

The guys closing polling places in black neighbourhoods? The guys denying women and trans people healthcare?

Identity politics has always been a conservative project.

It’s 500k people for over a decade. If any study has the data to do it, it’s this one.

Not to downplay the dilemmas we face today, it seems to me that the main problem is that the machine is too expensive, too complicated and too large to serve as a permanent heart/lung replacement.

We have an excellent record of making machines smaller, cheaper and simpler to operate. This machine will be the pacemaker of the future.

You generally enroll a passkey for a single device or connected group of devices. My icloud-syncing devices has a passkey. My windows laptop has another. My desktop has yet another. I have also enrolled my yubikey.

I could stop using my idevices tomorrow and not be negatively influenced.

Plagiarism is not a legal thing. Copyright infringement is, but that’s a different beast.

It diverges more from x86 than I would have expected!

I have a Mastercard branded card issued by the Dutch quasi-monopolist (ICS). Every time I have a transaction with a merchant with ties to NL, they force me to do 2FA using their crappy app.

I have no words to express how much I hate this.

The MIT license is two paragraphs long. The GPL is little more than a page, plus a very informative preamble.

Don’t take anyone’s word for what they say or which is better. Read them.

If only there were a whole field of study dedicated to this, and you could hire experts to run studies for you…

And as long as the thing you are polling is about 50:50. It’s hard to poll more skewed things, and you need larger sample sizes.

If you plug in the numbers into a sample size calculator you will find that a sample size of 2000 enables you to get an estimate within 5% of the true value 99.999% of the time for an infinite population.

So, not exactly small, no.

https://www.calculator.net/sample-size-calculator.html

The whole three year thing is exactly what they said a decade ago when they moved from tick/tock to a vague three year cycle.

The problem isn’t Moore’s law. It’s that Intel isn’t keeping pace with the competition and it’s finally gotten so bad that it’s starting to erode x86’s entrenched position.

Intel is a dead company walking unless they turn the ship around fast.

Yes. But more importantly, there are lots of creators making excellent stuff for systems that are not compatible with their bullshit player option supplements.

No Steve, you cannot be extra-planar half-staplerkin half-mongoose demi-lich paladin/sorcerer with a lemming patron. I don't care what Tasha's Bulging Cupboard of Crap or Volo's Yard-sale of Absolutely Everything has to say about it.

BTW, I detest PDF for online use. It looks great, but the typesetting never matches whatever screen I'm using. If it's going to go paperless, the RPG industry needs to evolve beyond "let's pretend this is paper".

For me the naive part is focussing on player options.

I understand that groups generally have one DM and 4 players, do if you include player options you might sell 5 books instead of one. But that's the shallow, cash-in-now-fuck-next-decade mentality.

Meanwhile they haven't put out a decent adventure in a decade. The internet is awash with people trying to glue their ramblings back into coherent campaigns and running D&D (always a huge time sink) is becoming a worse experience every year as they keep flooding the market with crap.

I love running games but I've come to the point where I'm not really interested in starting a D&D group anymore because of all the bullshit.

WOTC: support your DMs or die.

You can get better results by setting up a test harness that compares to the original and feeding back the results.

But then you are doing boring work and letting the llm do the fun work, which is not the point the whole thing.

squad members not remembering gear assignments between missions, no keyboard shortcuts during missions

I still have a notebook that contains squad member names and loadouts. I used that to quickly equip soldiers for missions.

You can tell the changes by the crossed out text. When I got plasma rifles. When I got blaster bombs. When my main assault guy caught a heavy plasma hit in the face.

Good times, but I’m glad they remember the load out in the new games.

I was referring to the commodities market. The stuff you need to keep your factory running.

I agree with you that the financial economy is largely divorced from actual stuff, which is why pumping money into it doesn’t lead to rising prices of stuff, just rising prices of financial instruments.

That’s the key here. Increasing the money supply should lead to increase in prices if and only if it is spent on stuff. If it’s squirreled away in complex financial instruments, we just call it “amazing returns”

No that’s wrong. That refers to the money made by issuing actual currency, but that’s not how the money supply is regulated. Most of the money is created by banks and other private entities though fractional reserve lending, not actual currency printing.