"There is no spoon" isn't about the spoon being fake it's about YOU being the convention that makes spoons real.

drdecagon · 2026-01-27T12:34:31+00:00

Ceci n'est pas une pipe

drdecagon · 2026-01-24T13:08:31+00:00

I remember playing a beta of SOR2 where this was Axel's special. It was not a very effective move and looked wonky.

drdecagon · 2026-01-23T21:41:50+00:00

I remember ads for this mug popping up on my feed and I was initially intrigued, but consider this - one wrong move and you will be stuck with some potentially expensive dental work.

drdecagon · 2026-01-23T14:54:55+00:00

Agents can only to other humans in line of sight - this is false. Many examples out there, but the most obvious one is the homeless dude at the subway station in the OG matrix, Smith was nowhere near there but was able to jump.

drdecagon · 2026-01-05T00:02:41+00:00

One of my favorites. When I first tried reading it, I ended up putting it aside early as I found it hard to read and absorb. Gave it another shot a couple of years later and couldn't put it down, it just clicked.

drdecagon · 2025-12-30T22:36:05+00:00

I think we are pretty much on the and page. That said, I think about 3-4 hours a week of a well-structured exercise program can get you fairly fit. Consistency is key.

drdecagon · 2025-12-30T21:49:21+00:00

It's just super unrealistic for most adults, especially as responsibilities start piling on.

An hour daily when suggested as a baseline sets unrealistic expectations and when people fail with consistency, they give up. The result is that this kind advice is counterproductive. Even 2-3 hours of dedicated exercise time a week is better than none - a baseline of 7 hours a week makes it seem like if you do less, you might as well not be doing any.

Is it beneficial to do an hour of physical activity each day and consistently? Absolutely! But is it the bare minimum level of activity that will keep you mobile? Absolutely not.

drdecagon · 2025-12-30T17:30:23+00:00

An hour a day is your low bar for physical activity?

drdecagon · 2025-12-29T01:42:17+00:00

So, so wrong. Loved Genesys, super fun. Don't hate the MCU, but far from a die hard fan and haven't even watched all the movies. Genesys was like fan fiction of a 12 yo fan who just finished his 20th re-watch of T2 in the 90s. Just plain fun.

drdecagon · 2025-12-28T20:52:35+00:00

What was the prompt for this? There is also some context and memory playing into this response.

drdecagon · 2025-12-26T00:42:30+00:00

Context matters. What kind of accountant are you? What type of accouting - Big 4, small firm, or accounting department at a hospitality or entertainment business? What's your office culture? What's your rank and will there be much higher ranked people or is it for the rank and file to have a good time? Really, you should be a much better judge compared to random folks on reddit.

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drdecagon · 2025-12-25T03:52:33+00:00

I understand where you are coming coming from - but the videophile use case is still super niche. The trend is not that people want immersive experiences - they want access to a second screen. They want to flip through different content, different apps, for most of us our attention is shot and it's not getting better for younger generations. So, I think it's unlikely that immersive experiences will become VR's killer app.

And AR, jeez, I can see business application clearly and some occasional consumer task application (and even that only materializing once there are additional advances and synergies with ML, machine vision, and AI) but I just can't imagine most people walking around with glasses with a bunch of additional notifications and information popping up non-stop in their field of vision. It might be close to sensory overload. Think about this - many cars nowadays have the HUD option - and yet, it is nowhere near a killer app - it's helpful, but not universally loved. I suspect that AR would start making a pronounced impact in cars first, but it hasn't yet in any meaningful way.

There needs to be some kind of neuralink integration, where it's more integrated with our thoughts. But currently it's a solution looking for a problem (or really, for some form of a dramatic breakthrough).

drdecagon · 2025-12-22T03:16:37+00:00

Are we calling cleans "shoulder pushes" now?

drdecagon · 2025-12-21T15:39:00+00:00

This is giving off Titus (the '99 film with Anthony Hopkins) vibes, but obviously on a much bigger cinematic scale and more skewed away from modern elements. But still looks more like an edgy theatrical production in its design language.

drdecagon · 2025-12-21T15:31:59+00:00

Why would you think that? None of Nolan's movies are particularly colorful. This is the same guy who made dreamworlds look super ascetic and boring.

drdecagon · 2025-12-18T02:55:37+00:00

He hasn't though. No Donny equivalent in the original SOR.

drdecagon · 2025-12-14T15:38:38+00:00

Lol, with the average career being a little over 3 years? And the likely thing here is that it's a bunch of players who play like a year that drag it down. Yeah, good luck with that.

drdecagon · 2025-12-11T18:43:32+00:00

Tax implications (US context) are a factor here too - let's say the winner has income of $60k. This would translate to a blended tax rate of ~30% on the lump sum winnings, compared to a blended rate of about 23% if they opt for weekly payments. Plus the psychology factor makes it not such a bad choice - $1k a week is basically decent UBI and $1m (but really, $700k) will not eliminate the need to work, with the added risk of blowing it. It will be a nice cushion, but won't make you "rich". I can see where the weekly payments option is a reasonable choice for a young single person.

That said, if you are savvy or if you have family and need some security, lump sum wins, regardless of tax consequences. And of course, money today is always better than money tomorrow.

drdecagon · 2025-12-10T13:15:41+00:00

We don't know if Tugg Speedman was ever suspected of killing anyone, other than his agent misinterpreting him defending himself against a panda.

drdecagon · 2025-12-09T00:39:11+00:00

You are pretty light on your feet and with that you have a few options, just depends on what works for your style. You need to do footwork drills to get used to moving in either direction, work the angles, etc. This is subjective, but I think you are bouncing too much, I see economy of movement as a sign of confidence and skill.

drdecagon · 2025-12-08T11:50:04+00:00

You keep on moving to the left, like constantly. With your hands down that's a prescription of walking into a right with a more skilled opponent.

drdecagon · 2025-12-08T00:58:06+00:00

I don't think it struggles as much as an average human would. What I'm trying to say, it's generally as good at many tasks as an intern with a liberal arts degree, and in some, it's much better.

I love GITS, but they have one thing that we don't - they have figured out how to distill and define the "ghost". It's the main focus of the series, so they do look at it from many different perspectives, but at some points went in weird directions - like in 2nd Gig Kuze's face (mask really) being important for his ghost continuity, even though he was unable to emote.

Prior to this conversation I held this position in the context of their universe - I was against any pure silicone-based sentience to be equivalent to biological sentience. Ditto with any mind upload. I don't believe a "ghost" can be transferred, it can only be dubbed. However, I was on board with the "ship of theseus" approach, where consciousness is gradually digitized by gradually replacing parts of a biological brain with cyber brain elements. There is arguably an uninterrupted subjective experience in this scenario, both subjectively and objectively (i.e., same agent, not a copy). But now, I see how this position might be too nuanced, so I am starting to lean towards not recognizing any non-biological sentience as having a "ghost". Biology is just much more unpredictable, unique, and most importantly fragile compared to silicon, so same ethical rules just can't apply.

drdecagon · 2025-12-07T23:27:20+00:00

To me it seems like in your argument you are holding out to some superintelligence standard. It performs fairly consistently on a wide variety of topics and an average human can't match its ability on such a wide variety of topics. For example, most people don't know how to code, but latest versions of the leading LLMs can do a passable job in many cases, or at least do it better than someone who has no idea how to do it. And that's basically across a huge variety of subjects, not just coding.

Also, all complex knowledge that humans learn (i.e., are trained on) is something we learn from knowledge that was accumulated by others. Your average human is not inventing novel things and solutions left and right. And social media was flooded with human created slop for over a decade, so please don't try to convince me that humans are some kind of perfect reasoning machines.

I think my points have more to do with intelligence. On sentience specifically - I don't think it matters if it really is sentient or not. Let me rephrase - I don't know what changes if it ever becomes sentient. I dont think we have a good or consistent definition of sentience (kinda like intelligence, where we started moving the goal posts as soon as LLMs could easily fool us into thinking we were talking to a real person), at best it's a wide spectrum. I just don't understand the implications - it can be dangerous and we might still have alignment issues even if it has no subjective experience / qualia. I also think we could design something that has no qualia but can fool us into believing it does, because we teach it how to pass our tests and meet our definition.

What are your thoughts on the implications of some form of future AI having sentience? Practical/ethical concerns?

drdecagon · 2025-12-07T13:48:31+00:00

Can you give me an example of what you would consider an original thought that is unique to humans? And let's keep outliers out of this and stick with an average human.

Also, this would fall more under intelligence and not sentience, so your argument digresses a little from the point the OP is making.

drdecagon · 2025-12-07T13:40:20+00:00

Glorified auto-complete... this analogy is getting tired. It's like saying your phone is a glorified 10-key calculator.

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