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dota_fanatic commented on Anime is eating the world a16z.com/anime-is-eating-... · Posted by u/vishnurnair

> What makes you think ".. had everyone loving it" and "the majority of people who watched it loved it"?

"the majority of people who watched it loved it"

Because why someone who doesn't like something watch it all the way through. The majority of people who watched Wheel of Time loved it. Sure, some people who disliked it or weren't interested would have watched it all the way through, but most people don't. Did the majority of people who watched only an episode or two love it? I don't know. But that was never my claim.

Maybe you can share why you think people, outside of being reviewers, will watch things they don't like? Am I the odd one out? Seriously, if I don't like a book I stop reading it. If I don't like a show I stop watching.

"JordanCon/WoTCon had everyone loving it." (completely different from saying "everyone loving it")

Because I attended them, and everyone there was loving it. Judging by the cheers and the interest at the associated panels, and well everyone I spoke with.

> I imagine the commenter you're replying to will find "That you don't [love these things] is fine. Not everything needs to be for you." to be patronizing

Facts hurt?

dota_fanatic · a year ago

I would hazard most shows that people watch, they don't love. Indeed, when it comes to movies, books, and shows there are only a few that I love. Nevertheless I continue to watch and read various content because it's fun, doesn't mean I love it, and sometimes in the end I'll decide I didn't like it.

dota_fanatic commented on Anime is eating the world a16z.com/anime-is-eating-... · Posted by u/vishnurnair

jasonlotito · a year ago

> I'm surprised to hear that

In the fandom, it's fairly well received. JordanCon/WoTCon had everyone loving it. Sure, some people might not like it, but the majority of people who watched it loved it.

Martin's criticism of HoD is silly considering he still hasn't stuck the landing on his original series, and I imagine is holding back because people didn't like his resolution and is now stuck. Regardless, lots of people love these things. That you don't is fine. Not everything needs to be for you.

I didn't like Witcher 3. Overrated lame open world with boring stories and poor combat. Never finished it. So I had zero interest with any of the Witcher shows. But I also realize that a lot of people love it. I'm happy those people have something they enjoy.

dota_fanatic · a year ago

What makes you think ".. had everyone loving it" and "the majority of people who watched it loved it"? Was there a study done? I don't know either way, and am genuinely curious what that distribution looks like. I suspect nobody knows the answer but you seem confident in your assertion.

As an aside, I imagine the commenter you're replying to will find "That you don't [love these things] is fine. Not everything needs to be for you." to be patronizing.

dota_fanatic commented on Anime is eating the world a16z.com/anime-is-eating-... · Posted by u/vishnurnair

jasonlotito · a year ago

Most people who watched it enjoyed it. Jordan fans were big on it (at least from what I saw at JordanCon and WoTCon). Will people not like certain things, sure. The issue is that YouTubers will complain about anything these days and rage videos get more traction, so it's easier to pile on, and people who wouldn't watch it complain about how bad it is.

I wouldn't put to much weight on someone not liking something. After all, either they haven't watched it all, or they are watching something they don't like. And that's not someone's taste I trust.

dota_fanatic · a year ago

One can enjoy the show as a kind of trashy fanfiction while still finding it terribly unfaithful to the original story and characters. We're only two seasons in and massive changes have been made that invalidate character arcs in the original, so I expect we'll continue to see greater and greater divergence in plot points.

Having said that, what do you think of people like GRRM (wrt House of the Dragon) and Brandon Sanderson critiquing these adaptations? Your last paragraph seems to imply there's no value to someone dislike something.

dota_fanatic commented on E3 Is Officially Dead washingtonpost.com/entert... · Posted by u/eXpl0it3r

fidotron · 2 years ago

Indeed. I think it is even tempting to suggest video gaming may be in trouble, after a multi decade long technology advancement enabled cambrian explosion of possibilities, now it has settled into the narrowest field ever seen.

The last time it was remotely like this was the brown first person shooter phase circa 2005, but yet another walkfest with super high production values is no more interesting. If you happen to be into that stuff it is a golden age, but that is like saying the Marvel era of cinematic domination was a great thing.

The question really becomes if games were ever interesting to the mass market as games at all, or merely proxies for technological experimentation or storytelling, both of which can be done by other means.

dota_fanatic · 2 years ago

> now it has settled into the narrowest field ever seen.

That's a hot take. It's never been a better time to be a gamer. In addition to most of the gaming backlog being available via emulation, it's never been easier for a small number of people to build a great game. So long as you're not extremely picky there's more good games to play than time to play them.

dota_fanatic commented on After OpenAI's blowup, it seems pretty clear that 'AI safety' isn't a real thing gizmodo.com/ai-safety-ope... · Posted by u/rntn

Apocryphon · 2 years ago

How does the ability to learn how to play go translate to being able to defeat human beings in the social arena.

dota_fanatic · 2 years ago

It doesn’t. I was discussing the inability of a weaker intelligence to predict ahead of time what a stronger intelligence will do to achieve its goals. AlphaGo is an example of that in the specific domain of Go gameplay. A general intelligence is generalized, which is why humans can outcompete other agents in so many different domains, just as an AGI could outcompete us in any domain given the opportunity to grow in power.

dota_fanatic commented on After OpenAI's blowup, it seems pretty clear that 'AI safety' isn't a real thing gizmodo.com/ai-safety-ope... · Posted by u/rntn

nradov · 2 years ago

How ridiculous. This is just sci-fi bullshit without a shred of logic or scientific evidence. You would have just as much credibility claiming that we are at risk of an alien invasion. I mean I can prove that it's impossible.

dota_fanatic · 2 years ago

No evidence? There are two examples of evidence in my post: the history of homo sapiens vs other intelligent mammals and AlphaGo vs humans in Go.

Alien invasion? What in the non sequitur are you going on about? And apparently you have a proof against the possibility of AI misalignment? Pack it up everyone, nradov has the entire field of AGI alignment nailed. And a proof of the non-existence of aliens, never-mind very smart people have put out a mathematical model which seems to fit the evidence quite well.*

Apologies for the snark, but your reply was rather abrasive.

* https://grabbyaliens.com/

dota_fanatic commented on After OpenAI's blowup, it seems pretty clear that 'AI safety' isn't a real thing gizmodo.com/ai-safety-ope... · Posted by u/rntn

nradov · 2 years ago

Help us out here. Let's say that known bad actor Vladimir Putin gets an AGI. How does that allow him to take over the world despite many other countries having nuclear weapons? Take us through it step by step, and no hand waving please.

dota_fanatic · 2 years ago

One cannot predict what a smarter-than-themself agent will do ahead of time, if they could then they’re just as smart. Just as a dolphin cannot predict how a human will come up with novel and utterly overwhelming ways to farm them, you and this other poster cannot predict how an AGI will achieve dominance of its environment to achieve its goals, so your request is impossible to fulfill. Lee Sedol couldn’t “take us through it step by step” how AlphaGo would beat him in Go.

That aside, afaik most safety concerns arent around a bad human actor using AGI to dominate the planet, it’s around an AGI being misaligned to begin with, it cannot be controlled, we promptly lose everything after it manifests.

dota_fanatic commented on Super Mario RPG is an endearing, perplexing relic polygon.com/reviews/23960... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

swozey · 2 years ago

This is one of my favorite JRPGs. I played it as a kid and it was right up there with the greats for me. If you liked Chrono Trigger, etc, play this.

With that said, I am so sick of remakes. When I first heard a 2023 Super Mario RPG was coming out I was so excited that we'd get an actual 2023 SMRPG. Not a remake. Everything is a remake nowadays. I have zero, absolutely zero desire to replay a game I beat when I was 12.

It's like the FF7 remake.. my god. I put like 80 hours into that game, probably an entire school year. Play it AGAIN? Are you kidding me. For the exact same story?

These JRPGs aren't exactly fun to replay. There's usually no fast travel, no ng+, nothing. It's the exact same game over and over. How many times do you think I want to get the Masamune?

dota_fanatic · 2 years ago

Fwiw, FF7 Remake is something different, to both acclaim and great upset. It occurs after the original timeline but in the original timeline—Aeris and Sephiroth both know what happened in the OG timeline and S is trying to remake it better according to his aims. Also there’s a bit of a Kingdom Hearts-ification to some of the main story beats, which is my main complaint.

Many people are so upset because they didnt get what youre saying would be so bad, an actual remake or remaster.

dota_fanatic commented on Improving deep sleep may prevent dementia, study finds monash.edu/news/articles/... · Posted by u/clouddrover

Duhck · 2 years ago

I've been going down this rabbit hole for a while and don't have any conclusive answers.

I have always slept 7.5 hours in my adult life. I wake up a couple times a night briefly (and usually recall 1-2 time a night that it happens) but fall back asleep quickly.

My room is dark, and cold. Most of the times when I wake up it's because I am warm from my mattress (casper wave).

I am now purchasing a chilling pad for my side of the mattress to address that so I sleep deeper and more consistently.

I take magnesium because I am very active and have suffered for the last year or so from hypnic jerks, which are terrifying but have gone away since I started taking magnesium supplements before bed.

I occasionally have a hard time falling asleep or wake up early and cant get back to bed, but I still average 7.5hrs over a year -- and over 3 years since ive been tracking my sleep nightly.

I get sufficient REM, dont drink alcohol, gave up weed, and only have caffeine from 9am - 11am daily (1 coffee usually, sometimes a shot of espresso in addition).

Yet my deep sleep averages are ~45 minutes a night.

I am about to be 39, and I am unclear what to change beyond the mattress cooling pad which I will measure.

I've also started cold showers when waking up (60 seconds of cold to end my shower, working towards 2 minutes).

My family has zero history of Dementia so I am not as worried, but I am concerned with staying in tip top cognitive shape if possible.

I am tempted to try a sleep study and see what I might learn.

Edit: Lots of comments to address here.

- I exercise 60-90 minutes daily.

- I play a high level of hockey 4 days a week, snowboard or mountain bike 5 days a week.

- I am slightly over weight by scale, but I am just an athletic build.

- I eat healthy and cook nearly every meal I eat (I live in an expensive ski town with only high end eateries so I avoid them). Lots of brown rice, protein, fruit, and veggies.

- I walk 30-60 minutes a day (active dog).

- I get plenty of sunlight (within 30 minutes of waking)

dota_fanatic · 2 years ago

As another poster linked, you may be a slow caffeine metabolizer. I am and avoiding caffeine entirely makes a big difference.

Another thing that might be making a difference is what you do in the hour to two hours before sleep. If I do anything exciting, like sports, suspenseful media & games, or anything analytical, then that will delay how quickly my body relaxes into later in the night, which messes up the beginning of the night when deep sleep mostly occurs.

Lastly, if you're measuring your deep sleep based off of a device that isn't on your head, then take that data with a huge grain of salt. I compared sleep data from an Oura ring with the Dreem 2 headband and the ring was consistently so wrong as to be useless for driving better sleep behavior.

dota_fanatic commented on Electric bike, stupid love of my life craigmod.com/essays/elect... · Posted by u/ingve

paganel · 2 years ago

There is no way for me to let a ~2000 euros object of mine unattended and out in the open. I barely leave my current bike like that, and that "only" costs ~300 euros.

More generally, I feel like this is a subject that doesn't get discussed often enough. Yes, most probably the writer of this article can eat the 2000 euros loss if his e-bike gets stolen, but the majority of the population cannot. It also sucks that the majority of said population is also made to feel like it is its fault for not riding this type of bikes instead of driving their SH cars to work and back.

dota_fanatic · 2 years ago

The author lives in Japan. The probability of it getting stolen is approximately zero.