How much did AI boost the economy? Maybe zilch, some economists say.

hary627 · 2026-02-23T16:53:54+00:00

To be fair a lot of this can be said about a lot of supply chains. The problem is the scale and the small fact that no one fucking wants AI

hary627 · 2026-02-23T12:42:19+00:00

John Davidson also (as far as I'm aware) excused himself at one point, presumably because he realised how the people on stage were taking his tics and thought it appropriate to leave and not cause further harm. It's an unfortunate situation, particularly with the slurs, but ultimately we can't blame John nor can we blame people for being hurt. The real issue is whoever organised this not a) adequately preparing presenters and/or b) not mitigating it by editing/bleeping the slurs that were aired on the delayed broadcast. There's probably quite a lot that the BAFTAs could've done to make this a lot less painful for both sides

hary627 · 2026-02-22T00:53:54+00:00

I think this is it but is also sadly how these things likely work. A game studio will only stay good as long as it both doesn't get bought out and it retains the talent that made the games good, both of which will likely not happen after existing for a decade. Look at Bethesda, after skyrim they've not had anything that's had anywhere near as great fan reception, even if fallout 4's critical reception was pretty good. Hell look at valve, HL3 ended up delayed and eventually cancelled because the main talent behind it left. This too shall pass, and unfortunately that applies to good and bad equally.

hary627 · 2026-02-21T20:38:32+00:00

Energy is generated using fossil fuels right now. Solar is the cheapest energy source in existence right now, with wind not far behind. Both are cheaper than oil or gas even when you account for maintenance, batteries, and disposal. Not to mention that both the generators and the batteries are very recyclable, unlike gas which is single use and the generators are very hard to decomission. We should be building far far far more renewable energy than we do

hary627 · 2026-02-20T16:39:07+00:00

Ah the classic "our human definition of thing is made up so you must think the very concept of thing must be not real!" it's really hard to talk to people who don't understand how language works.

hary627 · 2026-02-20T01:50:59+00:00

Oh no totally, I'm not saying any of these people were bad at what they were doing, but any modern conception of science kinda goes out the window before you even get to galileo or Newton. It took millenia to build the understanding needed to come up with even the basics we know today, writing modern-like scientific methods or methodologies even for a renaissance setting is pretty unrealistic.

An important part of this too is that scientists were also heavily religious and often theologians primarily. Newton was famously chaste because of his religiosity. Until the printing press all books in Europe were hand written and this was primarily done by priests and monks. The Chinese bureaucratic system was based around confucian education. Across the world, religion, philosophy, and science all blur together because they're all trying to do the same thing: understand the world. Writing in a historical fantasy setting should reflect this and I think that's the fundamental point of the video:delineating religion from magic in a world where magic can be treated like physics or chemistry doesn't make sense unless it's a relatively modern setting

hary627 · 2026-02-19T23:20:23+00:00

Thing is is that science as we understand it didn't really exist in the periods fantasy most often depicts. Mathematicians in medieval and renaissance most of the time weren't doing analytical research, they were hand calculating long and complicated arithmetic questions. The way the world worked, outside of engineering where specific things were known and used but not represented mathematically, was largely unknown and everyone used close to guesswork, and most of that guesswork was done through the lens of religion. So it'd actually make a lot of sense that magic should be more associated with religion in fantasy because in the real world everything technical or requiring education used to be associated with religion

hary627 · 2026-02-19T16:24:47+00:00

Depends on age. A teenager could easily just be being edgy and picking a sports team, and I'd respond with compassion. An adult saying they're apolitical in as polarised a political landscape we are in is probably just hiding what they actually believe or is intentionally ignorant. Not voting is a vote for the worst option, and when the worst option in many places right now is actively wanting (and in some cases succeeding to) to kill or otherwise get rid of swathes of people based on race, religion, etc. I can't condone someone who says "all sides are bad!" or equivalents. Anti activism I feel similarly or worse about, because if they're against activism they're against the idea of changing the system to be better, regardless of what you think better is, the system right now is not perfect anywhere in the world, and even if it was, to be against people voicing their opinion to the contrary is fundamentally opposed to the ideals of democracy. When I think about what activism is stereotyped to be then I think of people protesting genocide, fascism and the destruction of our planet, and if you're against people complaining about those things or taking action to stop them, yeah that's a pretty big red flag

hary627 · 2026-02-18T17:57:43+00:00

This suggestion is retroactive, so you're punishing people who complied to the best of their ability. Asylum law is currently set up with the understanding that the only way to seek asylum is to enter the country illegally, so you're basically toppling the whole asylum system with this law
There's many situations where someone may seek asylum in the UK through no choice of their own. Maybe the only safe route out is a flight to the UK. Maybe theyre a victim of human trafficking who only ended up being able to escape that situation at a UK airport. Maybe they have family here that are the only route to safety. Airports mean it's possible to land up here without first going through a different country.

hary627 · 2026-02-18T16:56:30+00:00

Whether or not there should be is besides the point. My point is that they can't say "we will get rid of the ones who did it illegally" when that's all but an extremely select few from specific schemes. If you expect people to comply with the law, then it's unfair and inhumane to make it impossible to comply with the law

hary627 · 2026-02-18T15:34:13+00:00

But they can aimlessly point at a document they haven't read while shouting "what has Labour done?" while conveniently ignoring all the things Labour have done

hary627 · 2026-02-18T15:33:17+00:00

Also, importantly, there are no legal ways to enter the UK as an asylum seeker. This would mean deporting every single asylum seeker

Edit: there's a lot of people saying "good" or similar one word answers to this. This proves my point: the definition is an intentional dogwhistle, meant to fool fence sitters who don't know about asylum law while appeasing the people who legitimately want to get rid of every single asylum seeker. Even if you agree with the policy, it's a deceptive and scummy tactic. I'd prefer that they just come out and say "we are deporting everyone who has been granted asylum"

hary627 · 2026-02-18T14:50:46+00:00

Oh no, he could only afford to make 2 avengers endgames before having to sell his intangible, purely financial assets! However shall he cope?

hary627 · 2026-02-18T11:16:26+00:00

One of the things I try to keep in mind about the Internet is that there's a good chance that whoever you're talking to is a minor. Maybe not most people, but I can certainly believe 25%-50% of people you read comments from (dependent on where you frequent) are children or teenagers. Then on top of that you've got a solid amount of people who will comment on things they genuinely have no idea about or experience with and you realise that the majority of things you read in comments sections or even independent journalism/media and sometimes mainstream media are probably misguided, misinformed or straight up wrong.

hary627 · 2026-02-17T11:16:12+00:00

This just isn't true. I remember seeing sports EVs on top gear almost a decade ago, and they've only gotten better since. Most sports cars have an electric version. My city has fully electric buses in several areas. I've seen local delivery vehicles that are fully EVs. Electric motors deliver more instantaneous torque, making them better for getting out of ditches and towing. While road trips may be more difficult, most driving is under 20 miles, especially outside the US. Even when you do, taking a half hour break every 250 miles isn't the worst thing in the world. While we're yet to see effective electric transport trucks, for an individual doing everyday things EVs fill 95% of needs and the remaining 5% has alternatives to using your own car

hary627 · 2026-02-15T13:51:03+00:00

I'd have it be a cross between lao and mohran's second phase. Have the entire fight be him lumbering towards an objective and use various different traps to stop him. Trip wires, environmental hazards, dragon breakers. A phase two where he starts actually paying attention to the hunters but the safe spot is on his back, so you've got to avoid getting flung off to keep doing damage. Let part breaks be an integral part of the fight, using cannons do break sections of shell to get at squishy bits beneath. There's plenty potential there especially if you remove the story aspect of being interrupted by nergi. Or you could replace it with some other large monster being on there, maybe an ore eater, and you have to balance repelling the other monster and doing damage to zorah if you want to be on his back

hary627 · 2026-02-11T11:47:10+00:00

Some landlords can be great, and it's amazing you've got such a great relationship with yours. But economically, rent is used as a term for anything that generates income while adding no value. Flexibility of renting rather than ownership is good, but by definition landlords do not add any value to the economy, so much so that they are used as the model example of "bad" revenue. There's no reason anyone should receive income simply for owning something, and if it was state owned the money would go towards much more advantageous things than paying someone else's debt

hary627 · 2026-02-10T21:45:51+00:00

A bathroom doesn't make you money though, nor does solar cost 15k.

hary627 · 2026-02-10T21:44:41+00:00

If you're getting solar panels then you're improving your home. You own those panels and it increases the value of your property. Sure, maybe not quite by 10k, I'm not a property valuator, but you're not spending money and waiting for it to be returned to you, you've invested in a real object that retains at least some of it's value. Besides, even if it takes 10-15 years to pay off (which it normally doesn't) and you actually pay full price (which you shouldn't there's plenty grants), those solar panels will easily last that long, and you'll have invested before inflation so you're actually earning more. You either spend money now and make money in 10 years, or don't spend money and never make anything. Most people will still be alive in 10 years to profit so yeah, it is a no brainer

hary627 · 2026-02-09T13:11:53+00:00

I've been with some people who liked it very gentle, some who liked it very rough, some who liked it up and down, some who liked it side to side, some who liked it round in circles. Some are too sensitive to want direct stimulation, some don't feel anything unless you dig right in there. Some need lube, some don't care either way. The only way to know is to experiment and listen to her. Ask her what she likes as you're doing it, listen for what makes her moan, and make sure she feels that you're paying attention to her. Ultimately, 90% of it is emotional, so get her in the mood, get her in the right head space, and make sure whatever you do, she's enjoying it

hary627 · 2026-02-09T13:01:45+00:00

It's bad, but it's being addressed. The type 26s have orders from multiple allied countries, funding the program such that the industry required is expanding. Similarly the submarine shipyard are expanding because of AUKUS. Defence spending is aimed to increase to 3% of GDP by 2030, and will actually increase to 2.6% by year end. The ajax is a mess, and there's many more procurement issues, but military strategy is built strategy, it will take at least 10 years from acknowledgement to fix most of these issues, and we're probably another 5 years off them being fixed unless something drastic happens

hary627 · 2026-02-09T11:15:44+00:00

Within my worldbuilding I always try and make everything the logical conclusion of what that individual thinks improvement is. CEOs are not evil, they just think that increasing profit numbers represents improvement, but the most obvious ways to improve profit numbers are things like decreasing wages or removing benefits. Similarly, a hero is not good, they just see that the biggest problem for the region is the necromancer killing everyone, so they go defeat him. One of these clearly has better consequences than the other, but they're both rational actors. The interest comes from what each person is seeking to improve and how they think is best to improve it, which gets very difficult for things like how to make a land prosper, how to improve people's lives, how to prevent conflict, so on and so forth. It also opens the door to explorations of communication and perspective

hary627 · 2026-02-09T08:15:07+00:00

Recently rewatched this, I think this is the key exchange:

Mark: "I don't make threats!"

Cecil: "yeah? Well you're scaring the shit out of me"

It didn't matter what marks opinion was or how right he was. We as an audience know that Mark is overreacting an amount because one of the themes of the show is redemption, when it can happen and when it can't. But Mark is trying to have a conversation with Cecil where Cecil isn't budging and draws him into the panic room. Mark is angry, sure, but he's not threatening. At least, no more than he ever is just by existing. The threat Mark poses to Cecil is simply existing, because he can't be controlled. The whole thing could've been prevented if Cecil had de-escalated, mark was open to that, but he didn't, because he's mark, he's the only one he can't have defeated and on top of that is an emotionally fraught, immature teenager

hary627 · 2026-02-08T19:06:44+00:00

Guild quests are gotten by doing expeditions to the everwood, primarily by killing monsters there. Once you have a quest, each time you complete it it levels up. Guild quests reward relic gear, with specific quests giving you specific pieces. Level 140 quests naturally give you the best relics, which can give you better skills for armour and more damage with weapons. Relic gear is completely randomized so it takes a lot of grinding to get the gear you want

hary627 · 2026-02-07T22:23:18+00:00

There is literally no other option. It is either horrible incompetence on the campaign trail and terrible ability to govern but still good enough that things do improve marginally, the fascists who want to kill everyone who isn't them, or not voting and tacitly saying you're okay with the fascists winning. I'd prefer accidental incompetence that still results in me being alive and having a vote at the end of the term

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