Readit NewsWhile it's definitely more complicated than necessary, and silly that the game doesn't explain it at all, it also... doesn't really seem that complicated? Certainly not enough to live up to the amount of text spent building it up, or the amount of text explaining it, for that matter. You've got some offense and defense stats, each card draws a random number from 0 to its applicable stat (determined by type), highest number wins.
The difference between getting fired and getting convicted of a crime is pretty important, actually!
For the executive, sure. Not for the impact of the overall incentive structure on the trajectory of the business. Which is what this discussion is about.
gipp commented on They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling nytimes.com/2025/06/13/te... · Posted by u/cainxinth
I imagine a lot of these interactions are being filtered by these people describing them. I imagine if they sent the raw chat logs out, many would not interpret the logs as things like unsolicited advice to jump off buildings.
Here's someone publishing most all their raw chat logs to Substack, if you care to read:
Man that "Unreasonable Effectiveness of ..." pattern is getting a bit overused. With the original paper [1] you could still say that there really is some deeply philosophical mystery. But they now slap that on everything.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectivene...
Engineering blogger's love of parroting the titles of famous papers/articles (unreasonable effectiveness..., all you need is..., ... Considered harmful, etc) has always been lightly annoying to me
gipp commented on Memetics – A Growth Industry in US Military Operations (2006) [pdf] apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD... · Posted by u/lawrenceyan
Nah. Compressed ideas are simply very good explanations! Ideologues aren't open to changing their ideas, but some other people do so occasionally. One can have philosophical assumptions and/or preferences without wishing to impose them on everyone else.
Sure, I suppose... The strange leap you're making is in the assumption that Internet memes are somehow inherently on the side of open-mindedness. Memes can be, and constantly are, absolutely used as weapons of propaganda, both intentionally and unwittingly. I'd say in general that's the rule, not the exception, at least where anything vaguely political or cultural is involved.
Oh interesting. I haven't talked to any recent graduates but I would expect an MIT PhD student to be more articulate and not say "like" every other word.
There was a question at the end that made him a little uncomfortable:
[1:00:20]
Q: Did you use academic labs only or did you use private labs?
A: (uncomfortable pause) Oh private, yeah, so like all corporate, yeah...
Q: So, no academic labs?
A: I think it's a good question (scratches head uncomfortably, seemingly trying to hide), what this would look like in an academic setting, cause like, ... the goals are driven by what product we're going make ... academia is all, like "we're looking around trying to create cool stuff"...
I guess you haven't seen many academic talks then? I'd easily put this on the upper 50% of them as far as public speaking goes
You're moving into delusional territory here. He is not being "exhaustively probed," he is being "constantly spammed by confidently incorrect nonsense."
gipp commented on Occupational Downgrading: AI and Our Performative Work Future stateofthefuture.substack... · Posted by u/lawrencelundy
AI is a big lie. The planned reset is the truth. ML is good for surveillance state and killing people. There are other useful things, but they are not enough to drive the hype train.
The digital economy is driven by faith in the "best" tomorrow, not by rationality or critical thinking. Rationality is faked trough statistical interpretation. Bias is ignored for shareholders growth.
Progress is the new religion. A global Babylonian model of existence. In short: Dystopia.
The models behind the tech are antihumanistic. Transhumanistic. Posthumanistic.
> Progress is the new religion
"Progress as religion" is not only not remotely new, but probably in the weakest state it's been in... I dunno, 150 years?
I had a coworker ask a nephew in high school to sit with me at work to show them a software job. They said they wanted to be a game developer. It turned out they had never seen software code in any form, and had no idea what programing was generally. I asked them if they had any art skills, and they were baffled why that was relevant.
They had no concept of the job at all. They just liked video games. Apparently, I crushed their dreams.
I feel like the author made it pretty clear that's exactly what he means by "bad at unpacking."