Red-pilled too.

I think he was downplaying his use. He said he was getting addicted to the “dopamine” hit it gave him, which sounds like he was using it more than he claims. I don’t believe his scripts weren’t at least partly written by AI.

Yeah, that’s my experience. I think there’s a kind of anxiety that if they don’t spend it now, some unexpected expense may come along where they’ll have to spend it on that. When unexpected expenses are required, they have to borrow/hustle/pawn/pick up another shift/etc. A lot of people couldn’t even balance a budget if they tried (i.e. they don’t have enough income to cover both expected and “unexpected” expenses).

It’s because games are cheap compared to many alternatives that people would use to entertain themselves. They are one of the cheapest forms of entertainment when you consider how much time people spend interacting with them. An Uber and a night at a bar, or a dinner for two at a steakhouse could cost more.

I’m not very consumerist, but grew up poor by US standards (and am honestly on my way back). A lot of people seem to want at least some nice things. Sneakers, nice clothes, nails, hair; whatever they’re into. I think it helps distract them, or gives them something to look forward to. Part of it may also be that society seems to conflate a persons worth with their income and possessions, and that has been internalized.

Related Youtube video I saw the other day: “AI bubble will pop…………any day now.”

That’s what stepmothers are for.

I’ve only been to Chic-Fil-A a few times. When I went, they always said something like “have a blessed day,” giving me cult vibes.

Companies boasting about committing felonies and trying to charge companies to run the uncontrollable super-hacking machines on their systems has got to be one of the stupidest marketing attempts ever.

“Can’t turn your brain off,” and not reading the docs seems contradictory to me. I.e. if you don’t even know the contract of the specific methods the code is calling, you don’t really know if it’s correct or not.

import anthropic

client = anthropic.Anthropic()

message = client.messages.create(
    model='claude-fable-5',
    max_tokens=128000,
    messages=[
        {'role': 'user', 'content': 'say "Hello World"'}
    ],
)

print(message.content[0].text)

I avoided all the effort of going to read the docs and relearn something I very rarely need.

This is the same thing as blindly copy-pasting StackOverflow snippets; which people used to think was a bad thing.

Half the living standards. Will be uncomfortable, and likely violent.

At some companies, it’s because they’re hoping to use the data of the employees using the AI to automate their job away.

EA is Saudi now.

When I was a TA, I’m pretty sure 1/3 if the students plagiarized their programming assignments. Copy/pasting suspect snippets into Google would often bring up near-verbatim results, and a similarity tool would often reveal 3 students that either worked together or copied from the same source.

Resident Evil is really cool in VR; have to look down and align iron sights. Racing Sims are also cool in VR.

Yeah, I’ve been getting interviews the past couple months, but I haven’t had any luck so far. Got to the final round a couple times, but I guess they liked someone else they interviewed better.

Nobody I knew that went to trade school was ever able to get a job doing that trade. Granted, we all graduated during the 2008 crash, and were in a very economically depressed rural area.

Yeah, in the US, the protestors are mostly older people. I think maybe they’re too anxious and don’t want to jeopardize their future careers? Maybe they saw the concerted effort to ruin pro-Palestine protestor’s lives? Most companies do background checks (I’ve had to get a background check to work at Burger King), and even a single arrest on your record is enough to have you automatically filtered out. Maybe they saw that the BLM protests didn’t really cause the government to change much. Idk. It is weird though.

Most politicians at that level (maybe all levels) appear to be bought and paid for, are not genuine, and just say whatever the polls and their campaign managers tell them. She seems to be more genuine, competent, charismatic, and a threat to the status quo.