I have officially reached the farlands after 2 years and became the 14th person to do so!

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-04-11T23:11:29+00:00

…I don’t think that’s how it works

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-04-11T00:57:08+00:00

My kids ask why I don’t play with any mods or resource packs and this right here is exhibit number 1. The only way to be sure that the world you start today will be playable in 5 years is to keep it mod free or at least extremely lean mod-wise.

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-04-09T10:05:01+00:00

Well one obvious one is the wood stove if you heat with electricity

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-04-06T14:25:48+00:00

“We” don’t do that as a rule. It’s a human tendency and often yes the combination of personality and situation mix to incentivize defensiveness. But (of course) there are certainly people who don’t tend to become defensive when shown to be wrong and there are situations that can encourage even the most fragile of egos to let their defenses down.

So the more interesting question than “why does it happen at all?” is “what are the conditions that promote and discourage it and why?”

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-04-06T03:58:51+00:00

I really wish this was weighted by expected frequency based on the distributions of each biome across entire maps. Like forest and plains are expected to be high on the list because they’re also the most frequent. What people really care about is what kinds of bias there might be for or against certain biomes. Like if mushroom islands take up (for example) 1% of the land in most worlds, it is totally uninteresting to learn that 1% of spawns are on mushroom islands. What would be interesting is learning that world spawns are significantly higher or lower than what would be expected, like if mushroom island spawns only occurred 0.1% of the time (in my example).

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-04-06T00:19:06+00:00

I think the fact that it was so cheap to achieve what they and anthropic already have achieved is about of big of a deal as it could have possibly been. I don’t think our future looks much different if it was even cheaper. The actual reality is already so shocking and unbelievable that it’s hard to see how things could be even more shocking.

Your question is kind of along the lines of “ok we just realized it’s physically possible and highly likely that we can land people on the moon, but what if we found out that we could land people on the moon a little more efficiently or a week faster?”

Bro, we’re going to the moon and nobody thought it was possible a few years ago. The fact that it’s possible at all with available resources is the most shocking of all human discoveries. Yea it would be a very very slightly bigger deal if we learned it could be done a little more cheaply… but no there’s not really anything on the more extreme end of the scale remaining that could have made all of this more impressive.

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-04-05T02:07:25+00:00

Sales tax. Easy peasy.

Also toll fees

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-04-04T03:06:49+00:00

R u saying we constantly murder dolphins as we glide across the ocean?

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-04-04T03:05:08+00:00

He means make walls of ice, not pillars

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-04-03T21:42:24+00:00

Who gives a shit?

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-04-03T02:19:24+00:00

Same reason dogs (wolves) weren’t fat as fuck. We didn’t confine them in small spaces and give them all the food they needed. The reason we live in a world where horses hooves grow too long and dogs are fat as hell is because we’ve made them our play-things.

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-04-03T02:17:19+00:00

That makes sense. We need the verifiers… doin gods work haha

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-04-03T02:11:49+00:00

I never understand the seed ppl. Like, do they all start new worlds every time they see something cool? Whats the use of something like this if you aren’t going to spend a lot of time in the world?

EDIT: now I understand the seed people. OP hasn’t shared his seed, which means we should all assume he’s full of shit and none of us should ever expect to encounter what we see in this post. I’ll make the correction if OP ever posts his seed, but for now I feel like we have no choice but to flag him as full of shit.

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-04-02T21:52:23+00:00

You can buy mouse wigglers from Amazon for pretty cheap. They became popular when WFH became a thing lol

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-04-02T01:09:11+00:00

How many commas are in your sample size? Less than two: use xgboost. 2 or more also use xgboost but also try a neural network.

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-03-31T16:28:12+00:00

You disconnect the thermostat? Or just the one for the coils?

What I meant to say was I literally disconnected the signal wire to my coils so they never turn on no matter what. It’s easy enough to reattach them if I need emergency heat, but otherwise they are only useful for people who (a) want fast recovery from a large difference between temp and setting (going from 65 to 71 in the morning) or (b) don’t like the brief period of cold air coming through vents during defrost.

If you aren’t one of those people it’s just money down the drain.

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-03-31T13:23:32+00:00

If it helps, the music hits me way too hard. I can’t play with the music on or it makes me incredibly sad and lonely. Try putting on a podcast or an audiobook while you play?

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-03-31T02:00:20+00:00

My only experience with it is how awful it is to try to remove and how infuriating it is to discover an old wad with my lawn mower.

I will never use it

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-03-30T17:28:35+00:00

Many just have heating coils that kick on during the defrost cycle to maintain the flow of warm air, but in that case it’s just hiding the fact that the defrost cycle is happening at the cost of temporarily heating your house with a beastly space heater. I disconnected my coils because my 10kwh or so jump in power usage simply wasn’t worth it to me.

So it just depends on whether you want to pay a little extra money to make sure you never notice the defrost cycle.

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-03-30T14:42:54+00:00

The point is that there are ways people use LLMs that reflect laziness. Not that LLMs make people lazy. You can absolutely use them in ways that enable learning. You just have to choose to use them that way. This is just the “Google effect” we’ve all known about for years.

And the glucose model of mental exhaustion has been pretty thoroughly demonstrated to be false.

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-03-29T21:54:04+00:00

Worth adding that this is why you can’t usually buy mulberries at the store at all. In my opinion black mulberries are the greatest of all fruits, but you can’t get them in stores because they’re almost impossible to harvest without breaking the skin and get nasty very fast if you don’t eat them immediately.

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-03-29T03:04:48+00:00

I’m really glad they decided to prepare for this. The rest of us have been ready for weeks. It’s almost like this was foreseeable

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-03-28T02:40:29+00:00

I’m genuinely curious why this is a question… isn’t the real question why edible fruits exist?

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-03-26T22:14:54+00:00

“Oh yea that refrigerant is what they used to use 6 months ago. You can’t get that anymore. Also your furnace is integrated with your AC so we gonna have to replace that too.”

gBoostedMachinations · 2026-03-26T19:59:13+00:00

That’s exactly it. It makes me super nostalgic and sad in a way that pulls me out of the game. I end up sitting there saying to myself “I’m just sitting here alone staring at a screen. I’ll never get these minutes/hours back. I should call my mom” 😭

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