You are reading waay to much into that title, man. Their claim is it doesn’t make people more misogynistic. There are still tons of reasons to care about how media conducts itself.

Or do you imagine it’s just a neutral thing that the whites-only crowd would make it impossible to be a black actor again?

So, to participate in modern gaming, women should play games from 40 years ago?

Ha, I had no idea these existed. If anyone would, he seems like the type to, though.

once something erotic has merit beyond the erotic it often loses its porn classification in the public eye.

This definitely poses a problem. Er… depending on what we think a problem is, I guess. But the stuff I’m thinking of, it would be very hard to do this to.

These are the QTEs that Aphrodite wanted us to have.

people dismiss it for the sexual focus.

I stand by this: porn is a largely untapped medium for insanely stupid comedy.

I know we’ve all seen lemon stealing whores and whatnot, but like, we could have so much more than we do.

I said it shouldn’t only be easy.

and glamorising the fact that things had to be fought over more than a lifetime.

Those people are stronger than you, so sure, yeah.

I can just call the US government support number to voice my disapproval, can’t I?

Let me lay out a strategy for you:

VISA has decided conservative authoritarianism is cool.

We bully them into rescinding this.

Later, VISA decides again that conservative authoritarianism is cool.

We bully them into rescinding this.

Later, when we have the means, we take their processor from them.

Now, we don’t need to bully them. We own the processor. We decide what it does.

The above plan is, literally, all I’m arguing for. You’re with everything until that final step. Why are you so against taking power?

If you don’t trust the people in government, you should be in government then. Join your own country’s, pressure the US.

If you would like “we” to be International, by all means. Go for it. I won’t stop you. I don’t need our PayPal to be owned by the US. Maybe all countries have their own PayPal. Maybe the UN governs one.

None of these problems get solved whatsoever, though, if you refuse to be in power. One day, VISA will just stop taking your calls. You’ll get an answering machine that says, “We won the game for control of the world. Eat shit.”

shouldn’t

Shouldn’t?

because that’s better?

It is better.

I don’t trust the US government to not immediately misuse their power

Sounds like you should be involved, then. To keep them in check.

Why should it be easy? Do you only do things that are easy? Was World War II easy?

Your forefathers spent months, years, working on projects some of them didn’t even live to see completed. You want your activism to be easy? This is pathetic.

Of what use are you to humanity if the only victories you’ll reach for are ones doable over a saturday? Whose grandchildren should even bother to remember your name?

When we win this one back, I think VISA should restrict you specifically from buying any porn games.

…By yourself?

The problem is that government even has the power to do those things.

How would you stop them from doing this?

you can’t solve government problems with more government,

Not when you aren’t in power. This is your fundamental flaw: You complain about the world, oh how you have complaints, but you have no will to power, no vision.

Plant a fig tree; it will benefit your grandchildren.

It’s easier to start a competing company than it is to start a competing government.

Not when Trump’s government refuses to do anything about all the slapp suits PayPal levies against you for treading on their financial turf.

You need a powerful standing army for the latter,

Corporations, without oversight, just become warlords with their own standing armies. You’re not getting out of this one through the low effort of simply buying a different brand of latte, man, I’m sorry.

Your cynicism can’t defeat me, man. I am God’s holy warrior. I crush weak pessimism like yours beneath the weight of my iron will.

How is it you think private companies will be more easily coercible when Trump’s cronies are the private sector?

What is stopping the government from just commandeering PayPal’s records?

you can pressure these companies to change their mind again. Try doing that to your own government,

Jesus christ.

Okay, buddy, I’m giving you homework: you need to attend 10 city halls and 5 protests by the end of this year.

So don’t let them.

Basically nothing works if no one cares about their community. One of the reasons Trump is in power right now is because of a deep seated American apathy for, like… everything.

Trump, et. al., are dismantling USPS, but I like USPS. It’s bad that they’re doing that.

This is like shitting your pants to ward off bears.

Icarus flew too close to the sun, you know.

Gen AI is not a hammer, it is an auto-construction machine that removes you from the process of building. It doesn’t empower people, it sidesteps them.

It’s not going away.

Imagine saying this about asbestos, lead, freon, bitcoin, or cigarettes.

You don’t want it to go anywhere, why the hell would I listen to you?

Dude, just let AI fuck your wife too. It can probably do it better than you can.

especially the translations of languages that I don’t understand.

God forbid we dignify those people with a personal touch. Yeah, just let google translate do it: a technology famous for giving really good translations.

It’s comparable to gambling—you should keep up with the thread.

You realize that costing more does satiate the greed a little bit, right?

Like, yeah, we all know that line-goes-up capitalism isn’t sustainable, but there are still other reasons call of duty has loot boxes and battle passes now.

We’re still talking about ~3 mil to ~150 mil. If the software dev costs for Mario 64 were closer to ~1.5 mil, what does that have to do with the argument being made?

You know, maybe one day I’ll do it again. The only people I would have play Drakengard are those with extreme patience, and unfortunately, I’m one of those people.

It does have a really good story.

Nooo, wait who actually plays Drakengard? I love that game to bits, but I would never tell someone to play it. Was I just bad? That game is truly awful, haha.

Fuck I miss SSX. I need to make sure I have a good one in my rom folder.

Dating sims are absolutely played by heterosexual boys. Some of the weirdest, red-pill, alpha-male shit I’ve seen is from dating sims.

But yeah, usually on PC, I would think.

He is the richest person on the planet and currently dicking around in the US government’s department of the treasury as an unelected, regular citizen with no repercussions or consequences.

We are long past the man being a nobody.

Also, his gaming candle is stupid and he deserves the mockery.

If we count other people playing the game in front of me, I swear I’ve “played” this remake like 7, 8, 9 times through.

I don’t know if it was really a false flag. Nazis did start using the OK symbol for a time, and I think that was the point. It was built to be smoke and mirrors.

I do believe a lot of channers thought that it was just a joke. I mean, that ambiguity is what makes the dog whistle what it is.

But yeah, it’s a pretty lame magic show when all your tricks are, like, doing a Charlottesville but saying you’re not.

They did, but I don’t think they still have them.

Pepe is now (or again) a beloved element of Twitch chat, and the OK symbol… I dunno, that was eight years ago. I just don’t hear anybody talking about it, unless it’s to half remember that it’s bad now or something.

Oh hell yeah. The perfect system for Yamaoka’s industrial scrape music.

Let me know how it goes. I’ve been real excited to see people experience this for the first time, haha.

Yeah, that’s a tough one.

I’d say “well, don’t,” but that’s pretty obviously useless. :p

I think I can say this much, though: Silent Hill, being so metaphorical, it’s kind of built like a big puzzle? It’s okay to “not get it” while you’re playing. Most of the stuff I know I’m pretty sure I picked up from fan wikis later on.

So, easier said than done, but: try not to think so much, haha.

The remake is also a little better about explaining its own plot, I think just by being a little more obvious. So, by the end, some things might click into place a little more.

And yeah, the sound design, (minor early game spoiler) have you noticed that >!the radio!< >!is a positional sound?!<

!Normally, you hear it kind of left and behind you. My instinct that the sound is supposed to be telling me where to look was so strong that I kept turning away from enemies I knew were right in front of me. That’s so genius I almost feel it must have been an accident.!<

SH2 remake is sooo good. I’m in disbelief, honestly—and I’m still not convinced Konami will take Silent Hill f seriously enough. God willing.

But yes, if you’re interested, play SH2 remake.

Tonight, Australia sleeps for the first time in ten years.

Ah, but here we have to get pedantic a little bit: producing an AGI through current known methods is intractable.

I didn’t quite understand this at first. I think I was going to say something about the paper leaving the method ambiguous, thus implicating all methods yet unknown, etc, whatever. But yeah, this divide between solvable and “unsolvable” shifts if we ever break NP-hard and have to define some new NP-super-hard category. This does feel like the piece I was missing. Or a piece, anyway.

e.g. humans don’t fit the definition either.

I did think about this, and the only reason I reject it is that “human-like or -level” matches our complexity by definition, and we already have a behavior set for a fairly large n. This doesn’t have to mean that we aren’t still below some curve, of course, but I do struggle to imagine how our own complexity wouldn’t still be too large to solve, AGI or not.

Anyway, the main reason I’m replying again at all is just to make sure I thanked you for getting back to me, haha. This was definitely helpful.

Hey! Just asking you because I’m not sure where else to direct this energy at the moment.

I spent a while trying to understand the argument this paper was making, and for the most part I think I’ve got it. But there’s a kind of obvious, knee-jerk rebuttal to throw at it, seen elsewhere under this post, even:

If producing an AGI is intractable, why does the human meat-brain exist?

Evolution “may be thought of” as a process that samples a distribution of situation-behaviors, though that distribution is entirely abstract. And the decision process for whether the “AI” it produces matches this distribution of successful behaviors is yada yada darwinism. The answer we care about, because this is the inspiration I imagine AI engineers took from evolution in the first place, is whether evolution can (not inevitably, just can) produce an AGI (us) in reasonable time (it did).

The question is, where does this line of thinking fail?

Going by the proof, it should either be:

• That evolution is an intractable method. 60 million years is a long time, but it still feels quite short for this answer.
• Something about it doesn’t fit within this computational paradigm. That is, I’m stretching the definition.
• The language “no better than chance” for option 2 is actually more significant than I’m thinking. Evolution is all chance. But is our existence really just extreme luck? I know that it is, but this answer is really unsatisfying.

I’m not sure how to formalize any of this, though.

The thought that we could “encode all of biological evolution into a program of at most size K” did made me laugh.

but there’s no reason to think we can’t achieve it

They provide a reason.

Just because you create a model and prove something in it, doesn’t mean it has any relationship to the real world.

What are we science deniers now?

Oh yeah, absolutely. The fact that we own nothing these days is crazy.