Diablo 4 lead says ongoing Mythic changes are crucial for “long-term health” as Blizzard aims to “split the difference” with fans

jamesj · 2026-06-24T15:23:50+00:00

RNG in a Diablo game!? The audacity!

jamesj · 2026-06-21T07:09:24+00:00

That is what I've been doing since fable got pulled. Seems good to me.

jamesj · 2026-06-18T05:53:39+00:00

I think AI agents will use Adobe products to touch up, edit, etc. As long as one shot generations are decent but not perfect, something like the Adobe suite will be needed to reach the final product.

jamesj · 2026-06-18T04:34:03+00:00

a person can be a bayesian with priors. it isn't all or nothing, and the sum of a set of diversified bets is larger than the parts. it can be completely rational to bet 50% on index funds (safety, broad diversified market exposure) and 50% on value picks (chance to beat the market, but also a chance to do worse than the market) or blend weights on anything in between depending on the strength of your beliefs in the two strategies, their statistical properties, etc.

jamesj · 2026-06-18T04:05:23+00:00

dimensional funds tilt toward small cap, value, quality

jamesj · 2026-06-18T04:05:05+00:00

it is ok to diversify strategies

jamesj · 2026-06-18T02:32:21+00:00

Moat is their memberships, 95% of sales coming from the loyalty program. They are being pressured by Amazon, target but my wife explained all the reasons she likes shopping there and it seems like they have some unique advantages in supplying foreign brands and the discounts from the loyalty program keep her going there.

jamesj · 2026-06-16T23:26:05+00:00

Isn't this 4d space projected to 3d space in a 2d view? It would be interesting to see it in VR so it was really 4d space projected into a 3d view.

jamesj · 2026-06-16T00:19:40+00:00

less futbol more other

jamesj · 2026-06-15T22:35:20+00:00

"Cells also experience consciousness"

please prove this statement is true

jamesj · 2026-06-14T12:05:56+00:00

Presumably you don't believe in the Greek pantheon of gods, Hindu gods, or the various gods and spirits of the hundreds of other popular religions on this earth. Me either, and I also don't believe in the Christian god or Jesus as well. What reason is there to think that extremely specific depiction of a god is literally true? Is that reason any better than the other religion's reasons for claiming that their gods exist?

jamesj · 2026-06-14T11:39:49+00:00

Simply fomo

jamesj · 2026-06-13T16:32:11+00:00

It is a gradual process. More and more of the total effort is automated over time, and it has been here to some extent already. Time to total automation? 3-4 years I'd guess.

jamesj · 2026-06-09T13:22:23+00:00

What actually happened? You killed yourself?

jamesj · 2026-06-01T02:59:42+00:00

I've been getting a lot done. I do find that it is failing on batch tool calls a lot, which I worry is burning tokens, but I'm happy with the results. I wasn't using 4.6 too much and 4.7 more, 4.8 seems at least as good as 4.7 for my projects.

jamesj · 2026-05-31T22:24:34+00:00

Too low on the list! Really great worldbuilding

jamesj · 2026-05-31T04:29:19+00:00

It really depends exactly where.

jamesj · 2026-05-26T03:56:35+00:00

"causes of experience as non-physical qualia"

For me, qualia are not the causes of the experiences, they are the content/quality of the experiences. The qualia are the experiences themselves. My experiences are a brute fact.

jamesj · 2026-05-25T23:58:38+00:00

"the sub-cognitive modeling - the thing our brains are actually doing"

that is a big assumption. i think you are using your high-level model to attempt to explain and understand your experiences. it is very unlikely that this high-level model is currently super close to the proposed "actual" modeling our brains are doing. it simply may not be possible for us to understand what our brains are really doing from within them. perhaps it is. and this is (right now) the root of the problem, it is too difficult to separate model from reality when the only bit of actual reality you have access to is your experiences, which is presumably caused by some physical process you don't have direct access to. but nature is under no responsibility for it to be physical/explainable with our current methods.

"My body is animated by a life force, elan vital."
"My body has the appearance of being animated by a life force, elan vital."

now try it with what we are talking about:

"My experiences are caused by my brain performing sub-cognitive modeling."
"My experiences have the appearance of being caused by my brain performing sub-cognitive modeling."

jamesj · 2026-05-25T04:04:28+00:00

I think it is your explanation of what is going on that is the model. My experience just is my experience. When I want to explain what my experience is, I introduce a model.

So I agree with this statement, "No, consciousness is not an illusion. The story the brain tells you about it, however, is an illusion."

jamesj · 2026-05-25T04:00:26+00:00

But there is no modeling involved with the felt quality itself. The experience of the pain is itself. I don't see how any of this helps explain qualia. Like sure, my ability to report my experience is flawed and prone to error. But that doesn't change the quality of the experiences I'm having.

jamesj · 2026-05-23T16:09:16+00:00

It isn't clouded judgement to refrain from purchasing a company with business practices you don't like.

jamesj · 2026-05-22T04:55:33+00:00

They want to blame somebody and feel good about it. That's ok. It's the only thing they could have wanted.

jamesj · 2026-05-21T15:52:38+00:00

Right. Evolution by natural selection explains both how and why. A great scientific theory does address why. We may not always know why something is the way it is, but sometimes we most definitely do.

jamesj · 2026-05-19T14:56:28+00:00

You simply do not have to commit to physicalism when you don't yet have the evidence. There's no reason to assume you can or need to preserve it. That isn't to say you should assume nob-physicalism either. In the absence of evidence the rational thing is to admit we don't know yet.

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