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I won't play after your summary, though it gave me a few ideas for making a better game. RNG outcomes in strategy/management are bs, should rather be used to break up the routine, or worldgen. Also there should be a mechanic for corrupting the police/politics and lobbying for the occult. With...

The brain needs trash, it's like fat or sugar.

I don't mean to expose my attention deficit my dearest love_jenni, but considering the lavish praise of voogueme I shared in my post and how you replied to so many others it would be fair to think that I deserve a quote, no? My loyalty to the voogueme brand is most sincere, like my love for...

Too much of YouTube is a time sink with entry level infotainment. I try to only use it to relax. Aside from music/composition channels (8bit Music Theory, Miracle of Sound, David Bruce, Adam Neely, Rick Beato etc.) I semi-regularly watch PBS space time and Isaac Arthur for futurism and Robert...

I™ have Perfect™ eyesight but voogueme™ glasses are soo™ high fashion that I can't resist wearing at least two pairs simultaneously. I™ love whatever. All words used are registered trademarks of their respective owners or belong to public domain protected minimal expression list. Word usage...

90s nostalgia waporwave, when the Japanese economy was still booming and dreams were naively reachable. 5.8/10

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I think you will find useful advice if you look for country specific migrant forums/websites. Those will usually give some concrete examples or advice. In the unlikely scenario you want to migrate to central/eastern Europe in which case I'm an expert.

It is a question of design. Does a writer have a strong concept for the whole story or a single character? Do they approach the initial sketch top-down or try to have something be more emergent? Visual medium is more limited so it has to take shortcuts and have visual and musical world...

I'm sure they wear socks with an ambitious span of red and get excited around rotary engines.

Depends on one's definition of "strong character". Internal consistency and being convincing is what makes a person appear strong to me in a story or irl. When I say strong it is used to convey how great of an impression a character leaves, without necessarily being dominant, winning every...

Ripley is portrayed as an overman entity beyond all people in her stories. Soldiers are competent but foolish, they fail to organize a successful strategy, they may be strong or capable with weapons, but actually seem like lost children. Ripley on the other hand is a fearless being with...

From outside perspective, someone's character is an unknown, only ever revealed by actions. I practically agree with this approach and I recently started to think more in terms of orienting my upcoming PC's in terms of how they have already defined themselves. That said characters can change...

Given my enjoyment of visual space opera I tried to find any interesting literature from that genre. So far with mixed results. Peter F Hamilton "Commonwealth Saga" was a terrible mess of annoying characters, shallow plot and excessive sexual scenes. The only two interesting characters, Paula...

We honestly shouldn't aim to make an AI that could exist as a separate entity. Assuming AI has any agency at all, which isn't certain, It would be better if AI could only survive or develop in a human host as a form of obligate mutualism or commensalism. If possible we should integrate AI into...

Some amazing prog

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Player character's alignment is usually established in the background story preceding the actual DnD game. Any actions in the backstory serve to show the good and bad sides and how that PC interacts with the world, how aligned is their goal or...

I don't see any better long-term moral solution than investing most resources into any safe pathway to superintelligence of any kind that would later help optimise a more permanent system of morality or legality that would satisfy all. It's ridiculous but arguably we should actually criticise...

Murder could be removed as a concept from our minds. Just as anyone would never try to move forward by turning in a circle. Murder could itself be framed as a paradox that can't achieve anything in particular. One could think of moving forward by rotating in place, but ultimately there is no...

It has enjoyable harmony. I wish it was 20% faster and introduced more ideas in those 7 minutes. 6/10

So with microtonal music being all the rage among the late adopting hipsters I figured I might share some I enjoyed. This guy is great, check his other stuff if you like this. What constitutes microtonal music is quite relative, as the pitch changes may be subtle or extreme. In the example...

It's not very microtonal, maybe that's why I enjoy it so much.

I will stand up for that quarter of a man. Why do you deny their right to exist? What if they chose to only count their needs as a quarter of other's? It's their right to decide that they give up 3/4 of their entitled worth in any conceivable value system or vote. They could also exist...

This one is great.

I wasn't really obsessed. I used to incorporate it into how I structured solutions to my life goals or how I described others and it wasn't very helpful just one of those biased mental shortcuts that are easy to adopt. As exploration of my personality improved, the understanding of myself has...

You lost me at the hammer sickle part. Not my fetish.

Differences are real and can be tested or seen in performance. An artificial environment such as a station can be designed to accommodate beings of any IQ level. Maybe you could say that once humans live in space the average IQ requirement of daily tasks increases, which is debatable. Given...

I'd prefer less frequent updates, weekly is fine.

The pianist is killing it. The band interaction is amazing. The level of virtuosity that it takes to play like this is very much underestimated. His brain can freestyle singing with a large repertoire, but he sings in his mind and plays it on the piano. The kind of unique connections that...

I'm up for voice mafia if anyone's willing to arrange it, sounds interesting ; ). Could try text mafia too I guess.

Lots of datapoints this time. It's all an average attempt at getting the user's facebook.

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Excuse this raw and unrefined thought. One of the good things about it is that I don't have to care of how I word this emotionally charged rant, the prevailing is my feeling of resignation. This place is so hopelessly empty and frankly there is nothing new to find here. Dozen or so active...

Hey Sal. Welcome back. This forum is just being new user unfriendly by design. Ragnar should have removed those aggressive spam filters after they ceased to be of any use. It will let you go after you prove to it that you are not reasonable for posting under such restrictions so long. This...

The categories make sense. Self supervision in this context isn't as good as taking advantage of the imperfect system. 50% for an ideal predictor would mean fully random, if a player manages to get to 0% they aren't really random, they are being completely unpredictable in contrast to random...

What kind of symbols are we talking? Can you give examples? We don't have general AI, a neural network or an expert system can be trained to recognise any symbol in terms of already known symbols which isn't any less than what a human would be capable of when presented with a novel input...

The game is very simple, you type either f or d and this program will try to predict your next keypress. http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nick/aaronson-oracle/index.html Share your score after a 100 or so.

Loaded question? Dissonance is used universally to create music and evoke emotions. Music wouldn't be beautiful without it. If you consider the basic harmonic element such as the cadence. Which is a collection of two or more chords used to resolve a phrase. Resolution, which is a key concept in...

I don't understand what you're saying or implying here. Feel free to expand on it. You have this, let's call it uncommon, habit of speaking in two perspectives in a single paragraph and it alienates me as a reader. I will try to steer back on the topic. Here is my favourite looking pokemon.

Heyy! Getting on alright. How about you?

Unless it's a moral or emotional issue, I don't hold a firm opinion on most subjects so there's few occasions to experience a major shift to the opposite view. I do have working theories and usually new information is added rather than used to replace existing ideas. Even with views where I do...

Apes we evolved from are almost obligatory herbivores, they use meat more as a supplement. Humans have evolved to rely on meat more and functionally we're omnivores. I think there's a good argument to be made in favor of treating meat as a supplement, without relying on it too much. Although...

It's not my belief, rather it's the result I get when I assume the point of view to minimize the harm caused to animals and other life. The main idea is that if you take anything from the environment you decrease the amount of resources and restrict the ability of other beings to thrive and...

Why are we eating? It's immoral to take anything from the environment. Maybe you could argue that eating plants is less immoral than animals, but if you argue from that point you are killing living organisms anyway, only doing less harm. Thusly obligatory frugivores and scavengers are...

Ehm. Cool dude. I'm learning Japanese too. :confused: Cha rri zaa do seems most correct to me tbh.

I just found out about "replays". It's basically a transcript of a tabletop rpg game. So I curiously browsed for Japanese replays and I found an imperial long ton of them. I'm sharing it here because I think it has enormous potential to boost your Japanese learning. You get to listen to an...

It's worth sharing with your friends what you're working on and what you're trying to implement in a given week. The more detailed you are the better because it won't be as easy to avoid producing the results. You can ask them to keep you accountable too. A social contract like that is going to...