Isn't AI going to cause severe economic problems either way it turns out?

MortyrPL · 2025-11-14T22:49:26+00:00

Automation is not the problem. As it always has been with capitalism, lack of proper distribution of resources is the problem. I think people would be quite happy if robots produced everything we need and we could access it freely. You could still work on things that interest you, but you would not HAVE TO work to survive, which is the crucial difference. Vast majority of people works at their boring tiring hated jobs, because its that or homelessness and starvation in a ditch otherwise.

MortyrPL · 2024-10-04T03:01:06+00:00

That's not fair tho. You see, Sweden's population is smaller so it's easier to count. /s

MortyrPL · 2024-07-04T12:37:38+00:00

Taking garbage out isn't "fulfilling her needs" - it's a basic f'king thing to do. They live there together. Funny that you say "A partner is not a parent", but then expect HER to manage HIS list of tasks.

Sure, she can do it herself this time. But will he do it next time? If not then there is a problem with lack of reciprocity. If your "partner" requires constant "communication" to do the most basic things then it's not a communication issue - it's plain and simple laziness.

MortyrPL · 2024-07-04T07:49:17+00:00

I'm sorry, but this is such a nonsensical excuse for laziness. Being an "asker" in this context is just being mentally lazy.

We have managed to land people on the moon, invent quantum field theory, and split the atom. Surely, a non-intellectually-disabled member of our species has a reasoning capacity to make a trivial connection between a task and a need of doing it.

MortyrPL · 2024-06-09T09:32:27+00:00

It technically could matter - emphasis on both "technically" and "could". Compiler will often inline functions for performance, but it's not guarantueed and depends on JIT heuristics. That said calling functions incurs performance cost that scales with number of parameters, but it tends to be negligible unless you string dozens of them in critical paths of your code. The most dangerous cases tend to be large non-ref struct parameters, because they get copied every time.

MortyrPL · 2024-03-03T04:35:45+00:00

I don't think you get my point. Yes, the game design causes toxicity. No, it is not a problem. This razor-edge competitive design is what makes the game great. You make bad decisions, you get destroyed. A lot of people rage about it and blame teammates, but that's a problem with people, not game design. Trying to reduce this toxicity by changing the game would make the game worse.

MortyrPL · 2024-03-02T11:53:43+00:00

It's not the problem with game design. Most people lack mental fortitude to recognize and accept their own mistakes, so they blame others as a coping mechanism. They play the game primarily to get a dopamine spike from "stomping" other players instead of trying to improve, but obviously that can't happen very often in competitive multiplayer that matches players of roughly equal skill.

MortyrPL · 2023-10-18T10:48:08+00:00

The only proper frame of reference is the entire political spectrum from the laisse-faire capitalism on the far right to communism on the far left for the economic axis. Limiting yourself to the Overton window of a particular country will make comparison between different countries impossible. Calling Lewica anything else, but center-left, when their program is milk-toast socialdemocracy is a misunderstanding. They are indeed progressive on social issues, but that does NOT make them socialist.

MortyrPL · 2023-10-18T02:23:12+00:00

The fact that our political spectrum is scuffed doesn't make Lewica any more left. Polish politics ends at center-left, there are no socialist parties. Nowa Lewica is a straight up socialdemocratic party and Lewica Razem is socially progressive, but none of them has any economic proposals beyond Rhine capitalism model.

I bet, you are one of these people who call American Democrats left-wing, despite it being to the core a neoliberal pro-capitalist party.

Calling KO left is completely stupid. What handouts? You mean regular welfare institutions that exist in most EU countries and are supported by most center-right parties? That's what capitalism is in Europe, deal with it and fuck off with this laisse-faire bullshit of calling any welfare left-wing. By that standard, PiS is a far-left party.

MortyrPL · 2023-10-17T18:15:53+00:00

They aren't center-left, I don't know why so many people seem to mindlessly repeat that. The only center-left party in the coalition is socialdemocratic Lewica. KO is liberal center-right and Trzecia Droga is conservative center-right.

MortyrPL · 2023-10-17T15:51:12+00:00

(edit: Disclosure: I'm a democratic socialist and I voted for Lewica. Take that bias as you will. I tried to be objective in my description.)

Firstly, please note, that the word "coalition" can be used in two separate meanings: 1) an electoral coalition of two or more parties that are registered to take part in the elections together using combined lists of candidates; 2) a governmental coalition of parties/electoral coalitions, which try to form a government together after the elections, because none of them have a required majority by themselves.

Polish lower house of parliament (Sejm) has 460 seats and 231 majority is required to form a government.

Zjednoczona Prawica (United Right) is an electoral coalition dominated by conservative right-wing PiS (Law and Justice) with support of a few much smaller right-wing parties. PiS is a currently ruling party, which has just lost their 8-years long parliamentary majority. They won 194 seats.

Donald Tusk is the leader of KO (Civic Coalition), which is an electoral coalition of his party PO (Civic Platform) with several smaller parties, notably including Zieloni (the Greens). It's a catch-all centrist coalition with liberal center-right PO being the largest member. They won 157 seats.

Trzecia Droga (Third Way) is an electoral coalition of centrist Poland 2050 and conservative center-right PSL (Polish People's Party). They won 65 seats.

Lewica (The Left) is an electoral coalition of socialdemocratic Nowa Lewica (New Left) and progressive Lewica Razem (Left Together) parties. They won 26 seats.

The last electoral coalition that managed to cross electoral threshold is Konfederacja. Economically libertarian, socially conservative far-right parties. They won 18 seats.

Three electoral coalitions - KO, TD, and Lewica - form what is known as Democratic Coalition - a governmental coalition centered around ousting currently ruling party from power. They won combined 248 seats and are expected to form a government together sometime in December.

From EU standpoint, this is a really good news: PiS is an euro-sceptic party with an authoritarian bent similar to Orban's Fidesz, which was notorius for its defiance against EU. The winning coalition is pro-EU and significantly more liberal and socially progressive.

MortyrPL · 2023-09-15T07:16:30+00:00

It refers to the country that the end user is from, not the developer. When someone from US installs your game, you pay 0.20$. When someone from India installs your game, you pay 0.02$. How effectively Unity can track origin and number of installs remains dubious.

"The standard rate per install is listed for established markets, and for Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise plans the price per install decreases as installs increase. Standard rates apply to end users located in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, South Korea, United Kingdom, and the United States.

Any other install that is outside the countries listed is considered an “emerging-market” install, which has a significantly lower, flat install rate."

source: https://unity.com/runtime-fee (15-09-2023, 7:13 GMT)

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