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Yeah, the "aim to have the most positive benefit" angle is a great axiom. It's all the other stuff that that they pile on top of it as a community.

I don't see how this is a matter of semantics. You can use whatever word you like the difference is whether you're valuing something that could exist in the future or something that exists now. The distinction of values I'm making is precise enough to be an issue I could represent mathematically, but I'm not sure how many people here will enjoy that unless they also like thinking about sequential decision making mathematics

Effective altruism is a weird group because their informally stated goals are ones I'm totally behind and some of the things like the charities you listed are decent too. But with the actual "community" involved comes a lot of dogma that drive me nuts. What particularly annoys me is on many occasions the members try to sneak in their beliefs. For example, they'll seek "open letters" to be signed by experts listing a bunch of good stuff and then sneaking in some of the bad things. When you press them on that they'll try to argue it's a benign version of it, and then when they publish the letter they'll of course try to make it out like the experts agree with the things they snuck in. I'm primarily referring to experiences I've had with their AI-god nonsense, but since that's kind of the community's main "problem" to solve I tend to run into more than I'd like. Some of the researchers who do research regarding actual AI ethical and societal problems are starting to get very vocal about how toxic and counter productive the EA community is, which is a blessing

Well, pretty much any description is an attribution we place Not sure I'm following your last comment though. So we agree that some people (possibly yourself) reason by additively valuing hypothetical people. It is a moral question whether to addtively value hypothetical people or not. I, for example, do not. (I also don't think most people actually do and instead adopt this moral framework as a flawed tool that they following too closely, but I can't prove that to to be the case.)

Right, but the point was precisely about people valuing hypothetical people! I have had many arguments with pro-life people over the years (including people no longer here but whom once posted in the early days of Bad Cartridge) who very much embrace the "hypothetical/ will become a person" position. I don't have any statistics, but it's absolutely an argument often used. It's a position that's almost unavoidable once you press people on it, because it's very clear that a fertilized egg is not the same as a person.

What you value is a moral question though. If there is a possible series of events that leads to some person X existing in the future, and you additively value that hypothetical person, that is a moral matter. This kind of thinking leads to all kinds of insane conclusions. Classically, philosophy would describe it as the repugnant conclusion and it might have just be a weird academic thought experiment. But this kind of crazy thinking is something we have to contend with. Effective altruists, for example, make all kinds of weird moral decisions as a consequence of this thinking. In particular, they make decisions based on a goal to create as many people as possible in the future, even as far out as a trillion years. This leads them to downplaying the importance of climate change because they think "well it probably won't kill us all, and we'll still eventually populate the galaxy, better to focus on the fantasy "problem" of a god-like AI killing us all in the future and prevent our galaxy empire from ever happening!" They similarly reach anti-abortion conclusions because they additively value the "hypothetical" people that could exist. I'm waiting for them to start advocating that women are raped to add more to the population. Since their trend is only toward the more insane, I won't be shocked to see that happen.

I would put it more simply to avoid the baggage of "economy" as a metric. Even ignoring the immediate costs to the mothers, the world in which unwanted children are forced to be born is less preferable than the world in which they're not, even from a selfless stand point. When you couple that with the insanity about valuing "hypothetical" people and the actual toll on women's overall well being and peace of mind, it makes the anti-abortion position completely horrible.

Hmm. I'd have to look at the GUI, but usually an up button is meant to go to a higher directory level. Maybe you were in a folder too deep? Glad you got it sorted though!

Unfortunately, not sure what to tell you. If I try doing some custom art at some point on it, I'll let you know if I have similar problems.

I think DOS2 is really interesting in this regard. If you try to play the combat conventionally, you're going to get your ass handed to you by regular encounters. In doing so it actively encourages you to think way outside the box and do crazy shit, afforded by its rich combat systems. And when you do decisively beat a particularly hard scenario doing something wacky it feels so fucking good. But to that same end, there's some really crazy OP shit. LIke, apparently throwing boxes at people is the most powerful shit out there if you spec yourself right and lug crazy chests around the whole game I consider this a great virtue of the game!

I haven't done anything outside of using emu deck, so I can't tell you why other directions you followed don't work That said, I think my prior point still stands: showing hidden files in a file browser should have no effect on what Steam displays. Hidden files in Linux are not defined by any meta data (by convention they're indicated by naming the file with a leading dot) so showing hidden files in the file browser only affects your file browser, it won't change how other apps like Steam will view your files because it won't modify the file. But more than that I'm still clear why you think hidden files has something to do with it. Are your directories named with leading dots? Or are you just guessing it has to do with hidden files because Steam won't show anything?

You might want to try reinstalling the emu deck app again. But can you clarify what you mean by the directories just being hidden? "Hidden" directories in linux usually just means the directory name starts with a . and showing hidden files in a file browser or desktop just means it will display those directories, it shouldn't do anything with the meta data of the directory itself. So if you're not seeing them, it suggests something bad has happened to your directory structure.

Hmm not sure why that might be happening. Whenever I add new ROMs I just open the app, go to the preview tab, and generate the app list.

I want crypto to fail for the betterment of the future of technology, but now it failing is a moral imperative.

I picked up my Switch for the first time since I got my deck and was shocked by how cheap it feels in comparison to the Deck now. The Deck is bigger, which obviously has some downsides for portability, but in exchange you get something that is much more ergonomic to hold with far better buttons and analogs. And surprisingly the Deck doesn't feel heavy even though it's clearly bigger. Also emulation on the Deck is great. You can set it up so that from the steam interface your emulated game library appears with everything else, art and all and there are tools to make that automatically happen. I finally replayed Star Fox 64, one of my favorite games from the N64 era, without having to pay Nintendo for a premium subscription.

All are good. Divinity is the best though. If you can find someone to coop Divinity with you, all the better.

I'm no suit, but I don't think the sales value plays out that way. DLSS was previously a major reason to consider getting an Nvidia card instead of an AMD card. Now that is less of a reason. Unless FSR was going to clearly dominate DLSS, I don't see much market value in making it exclusive to themselves. Whereas making it open increases support which benefits them, increases positive perception of the company, and invites others to help them improve it. On the other hand, we're talking about humanity here, so who fucking knows Of course what I really want out of AMD is to more greatly support hardware for DL like Nvidia's tensor cores. DLSS is but one application of DL in games. There will be others and having great hardware for that will be increasingly important. While it's not super important at this moment, I think they need to be getting into that game now.

Good. Keep the pressure on, AMD.

Fuck me. this videos perspective…

It's entirely plausible they're poorly managed, but until demonstrated otherwise, I think it's safer to assume the game devs are already overworked

Software engineers and scientists have somehow managed to normalize wearing whatever comfortable clothes (sans exposing finger-blasting tattoos) you want to work. It's great and I highly recommend it.

Reality comes at you fast. I feel for the people of the country who have to suffer this stupid fucking decision.

This is overly reductive to the point that you could criticize any game this way. Effectively playing the game requires far more attention to timing, who you attack, what kind of combo you use, whether you dodge or counter (not everything can be countered) etc. The skill curve is quite high as the 2000x combo shows. It's fine if you don't find what's there fun but that's not the same as a claim that it's overly simplistic.

If Elon buys it and unbans Trump, then like Facebook, I'll be deleting my Twitter account. It's a shame, because Twitter is actually decent for following the latest scientific results and asking authors questions.