Yeah, dont see me linking to this post by Gelderloos as fully supporting his other stances, more that the whole way Scott says nonviolent movements are better isnt as supported as he says (and also shows Scott never did much activism). So more anti scott than pro Peter ;).

Remember how slatestarcodex argues that non-violence works better as a method of protest? Turns out the research pointing to that is a bit flawed: https://roarmag.org/essays/chenoweth-stephan-nonviolence-myth/

Unrelated to the article/vid itself, thanks for making both a video, podcast, and an article. I know it is a lot of work, but I really appreciate being able to read it than having to watch a video.

I assume it is a bit of the old SA leaking through. What is your opinion on anime David? (Otoh, it does remind me of the tool crystaldiskinfo (which reads out the SMART data from disks) which by default seems to push you to use their variants which have anime skins).

There is a wall decoration at the Enschede central station listing all the important companies started there by the local university and all but one I had not heard of (which is prob my fault) but those also all sounded like ‘Floorp’ I get a chuckle every time I walk past it.

Careful, don’t slander Comic Sans. It is an asshole, and has the party people on its side.

(I also think the font gets too much flak, perhaps to really show our distaste of the comment make it the fraktur font, and flip it around (I did recently learn that flipping a front upside down/around makes it very hard to read for people who have trouble visualizing things in their head, which I had not thought about as being an issue)

Yes! at scale at scale at scale at scale

I’m a lot more afraid of the recursive effect of this joke. We could have at scale at scale.

All twelve fingers? Wow.

Some of the horrors are also going to be load bearing for some fixes people dont properly realize because the space of computers which can run windows is so vast.

Think something like that happend with twitter, when Musk did his impression of a bull in a china store at the stack, they cut out some code which millions of Indians, who used old phones, needed to access the twitter app.

On the subject of Brave:

https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1j1pq7b/list_of_brave_browser_controversies/ it really has a little bit to many controversies. (And the list is downplaying some of it, the wikipedia clone added wasn’t just some random one, it is was the one created by the alt right, neo-nazi Vox Day. Addition of which by the CEO should be enough to not want to use the browser at all).

They now updated this to say it is just a research project and none of it will be going live. Pinky promise (ok, I added the pinky promise bit).

Wonder if this is some sort of pre model collapse sign.

Talked to somebody who is really into chatbot roleplay (of the ‘longer term stories with new fantasy characters’ type), and he mentioned that he needs to take his characters stories and archetypes to different models every now and then as a sort of refresh, as the models tend to eventually converge into certain stuck patterns. First clue of this seems to be that the replies seem to start to become a similar pattern of text organization. Sorry if this is vague as it is second hand, but the main point is, text based LLMs prob also do this.

Thanks! Had not really thought about how dice would mess with the complexity of things tbh.

That would be such a “we didnt know the dotcom bubble was popping a month later” move.

Obscure crypto programming term. Sure

Wonder how they managed to do that legally, saying it was AI but letting people see the data makes me think they might have broken a few laws.

Took me a second to realize you were actually talking about backgammon, and not using gammon (as in the british angry ham) as a word replacement.

This makes me wonder, how hard is backgammon? As in computability wise, on the level of chess? Go? Or somewhere else?

80 character limit

Lot of roguelike development in the past was still obsessed with that. Was a bit amusing, think even they have dropped this now.