Black and White was really fun for me as well for a time - it’s basically a god simulation combined with a zoo game as you have to grow your avatar basically.

Loved populous back then, if I recall correctly I even liked two more than one!

I’d expand it to director plus or similar, i.e. for people who lead other people with personell responsibilities it starts making sense to have three rounds imo.

That said I share your gist!

As they are closed source no one can tell you their true privacy policy. It seems better than average from what I’ve read but you never know…

Personally I use logseq and sync the files via a Nextcloud instance. I can only recommend it, although I also recommend spending an hour to learn the tagging and linking logic and reading through their guide on what’s possible. I still only leverage a minor part of the potential myself.

One that is closer to onenote (I think, never used onenote) is Joplin.

Yeah I had a brainfart, meant namespace…

And thanks a lot for this writeup I think with your help I figured out where I went wrong in my train of thought and I’ll give it another try next week when I have a bit downtime.

The time you took to write this is highly appreciated! ♥

Do you have a link at hand on how start a process within a specific veth by chance? Own name spaces are easy enough and a lot of tutorials but I don’t want my programs to ever be not in the vpn space, not at startup not as fail over etc.

That’s the reason why I stuck with the container setup, only for gluetun plus vpned services.

I have to fullheartily disagree! From my point of view this is an exciting dystopia - the same way Russian roulette is “exciting”.

I wouldn’t have thought that we as species speedrun the shadowrun tech dystopia in addition to the expected corporate oligarchy one - on not, not instead!

This feels like doing 200mph on a highway and someone telling me that they now can - and in fact started to - alter my breaks on the fly. “boring” just doesn’t cut it anymore for me.

This comment is so wild to my non US eyes. I had to convert the sqft you gave because I missremembered. Friends of mine are family with two kids and live in a bit more than half that space (80m2) - and are not the exception from what I know.

To see 130m2 “too small for the family” is really weird and I’d love to see/understand where the differences come from. I guess that even how the space is calculated might have an impact. Really fascinating!

Thanks for sharing!

I don’t know why you think that this is projection on the OPs part.

Personally I don’t find that “suspense” part that you describe. I fully agree that she has a highly successful career and fan base - doesn’t mean her humor is for everyone.

Personally I’m curious to see the series and I find her way less annoying than some of the past people which were highly popular (Cooper and Stirling for me personally).

I’m more curious than worried - and could fully understand that someone expressed “oh there’s this comedian I don’t enjoy, too bad. Oh is that something I shouldn’t say about this person specifically?”.

Too bad that some of those are quite certainly made up. At least for the Voltaire one I even have a very in depth source:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/13/no-enemies/?amp=1

Doesn’t take away the fun for me though - thank you for the collection!

Oh I completely agree, sorry if that wasn’t clear enough! Consciousness is so arbitrary that I find it not useful as a concept: one can define it whatever purpose it’s supposed to serve. That’s what I tried to describe with the skynet thingy: it doesn’t matter for the end result if I call it conciense or not. The question is how I personally alter my behavior (i.e. I say “please” and “thanks” even though I am aware that in theory this will not “improve” performance of an LLM - I do that because if I interact with anyone or - thing in a natural language I want to keep my natural manners).

That is not how these LLM work though - it generates responses literally token for token (think “word for word”) based on the context before.

I can still write prompts where the answer sounds emotional because that’s what the reference data sounded like. Doesn’t mean there is anything like consciousness in there… That’s why it’s so hard: we’ve defined consciousness (with self awareness) in a way that is hard to test. Most books have these parts where the reader is touched e emotionally by a character after all.

It’s still purely a chat bot - but a damn good one. The conclusion: we can’t evaluate language models purely based on what they write.

So how do we determine consciousness then? That’s the impossible task: don’t use only words for an object that is only words.

Personally I don’t think the difference matters all that much to be honest. To dive into fiction: in terminator, skynet could be described as conscious as well as obeying an order like: “prevent all future wars”.

We as a species never used consciousness (ravens, dolphins?) to alter our behavior.

Deine Krankenkasse wird sagen “Nein, die Leistung wurde nicht erbracht” und die Praxis dann: ok, hier ist die privat Rechnung.

Wenn du letzteres lieber möchtest sprich die Praxis einfach drauf an, dann kriegst du die Rechnung statt der Unterschrift.

It literally is!

I appeal to your intelligence: please consider that any action has more than one aspect, more than black and white.

Your assumption concerning my intention for example is straight wrong - as I stated in my very first reply. Where I also agreed with you. I didn’t write to be “right” or “wrong”, I interact to get new experiences. As I’m only getting shut down as “wrong” I will stop trying that here (that’s my perception about your intention. I could be wrong).

I apologize for wasting your time and won’t interact further.

Are you aware that I am not the thread starter? You’re talking with two different people.

Well you seem to know more about why people do what they do than I do. But as “everyone” knows I simply must be behind.

I apologize for not being clear, Baku. I referred to the thread OP, not the post itself!

And you’re repeating as well. If we’d expect the victim to read this I’d be with you - this audience here seems a different one though: and if the harsh tone of (edit) thread OP encourages even one founder to read one more contract than that’s a good thing.

Perhaps the statement should be stronger worded as: look at this small business owner and learn! She paid for your education!

Simply saying “don’t talk about what could’ve been done different” perpetuates not the stigma but the abuser instead.

Oh I disagree in the conservatism because my argument is: we can’t normalize written language because the phonetics in one language is wastly different in different regions and either we go to the pre Grimm “everyone writes as they speak” or there’s normalization.

That’s what confuses me: your definition of what the orthographic systems are supposed to solve differs from what l got taught: That people started writing preserve information - the phonetic alphabets were then adopted because (oversimplification!) it was easier.

My professor of historic German (Mittelhochdeutsch, not sure of the proper translation) always joked about the “sprechen wie gedruckt” people in Germany who claimed to talk “proper” German because of all the changes in language which get reflected over time into the main language (do you go “zu Aldi” or “nach Aldi” for example are regional directional expressions.

What is preserved is the clear meaning of things and standardization.

To get back to the OP: The standards are needed to prevent phonetic writing to alter the meaning of a sentence away from what the senders intend or puts a burden onto the reader to decipher. And that’s the risk when mixing relation and time (than/then).

From my perspective the discussion comes down to “who puts energy into the communication, the sender or the reader”. And for a lot of these examples it is less energy for the author than it is for the reader to then establish a common understanding.

That said: I find it fascinating to read such a different take on that topic and learn new things, thank you!

Since when is there “the” English way of pronouncing stuff? Same for French? I learned to pronounce then and than differently and stumble while reading if it is misspelled.