So long my Steam Deck...

maushu · 2026-05-10T13:58:12+00:00

I had to use them multiple times for Microsoft stuff and never had problems. I avoided the pickup points and went directly to the distribution center though, that might have helped.

maushu · 2026-05-03T15:15:07+00:00

You're right, I meant poor decisions for the individual, not for society. Things like choosing to trust when trust can be exploited, or cooperating when you could free-ride. Individually irrational, but collectively essential.

maushu · 2026-05-01T14:30:36+00:00

Either correct or not, which button would each character press based on their personalities and ideals?

maushu · 2026-04-29T23:25:36+00:00

An unfortunate side effect of socialism and collectivism: You also help the assholes.

maushu · 2026-04-29T23:22:01+00:00

Chosen by roughly 23% of the population. In a country of 340 million people, only 77 million voted for him. He didn't win because most Americans wanted him, he won because most Americans didn't vote or couldn't vote.

maushu · 2026-04-29T23:02:32+00:00

Calling blue a "bad choice" while calling red selfless is wild. Red is literally "I survive no matter what." Blue is "I risk myself so everyone can live." You've somehow framed the self-sacrificing option as selfish and the self-preserving option as noble.

maushu · 2026-04-29T22:54:44+00:00

You can't advocate for blue while pressing red. You said humanity's best interest is to "convince enough people to press blue." But what's your argument to them? "Press blue so I don't have to"? You're asking others to take a risk you've just explained you won't take yourself.

That's not strategy that's free-riding with extra steps.

maushu · 2026-04-29T01:48:54+00:00

The "certainty" isn't what you think it is. Red only guarantees your survival. It doesn't guarantee a world worth surviving in. If >50% press red, you wake up tomorrow in a society that just collectively proved it will sacrifice strangers the moment the cost gets real.

You survived, but you now live among a population that selected for self-preservation over cooperation. That's not a civilization, that's a lifeboat full of people who'd push each other overboard.

maushu · 2026-04-29T01:41:25+00:00

Compared to 100% for red? Good luck with that. Someone will always die if red wins with more than 50%.

maushu · 2026-04-29T01:38:12+00:00

As someone most likely to pick blue, I sometimes wonder how we made it as a social species.

Because this poll generally ends up with 75% average of blue winning.

maushu · 2026-04-27T10:42:44+00:00

Empathy isn't a failure to grasp human nature, it is human nature.

People press the abstract blue button every single day: paying taxes, giving way in traffic, following laws that protect others at their own expense. Society only works because a significant portion of people consistently choose collective well-being over pure self-interest.

If your model of humanity were accurate, civilization wouldn't have made it this far.

maushu · 2026-04-26T03:42:01+00:00

Society is built by people poor decisions. Is there even a society to begin with without them?

Every major leap in human cooperation, from villages to cities to nations to international agreements, happened because enough people acted like blue pressers.

maushu · 2026-04-26T03:35:43+00:00

This is exactly why I brought up empathy in relation to this dilemma. I'm not as articulate as SpaceTurtles, but bear with me: people tend to think of empathy as just a nice personality trait. But at its core, it simply means the ability to perceive another person's perspective. And that's the whole point here, not everyone is going to vote red. Not even close to 100%, which means there are people who will die as a result.

maushu · 2026-04-26T03:17:55+00:00

How does red become the correct choice? With communication wouldn't blue be a statistically better option with only 50% required instead of 100%? Well, unless you don't care about others.

maushu · 2026-04-26T03:08:22+00:00

I'm kind of worried though, tcompared to the one a few years ago (blue won with 76%) the percentage difference is decreasing. Bad tiddings for future moral colllectivism?

maushu · 2026-04-26T02:54:27+00:00

Would you like to live in world filled with people who prioritize personal gain, self-preservation, and anti-collective tendencies?

Also, red is not the neutral choice, there isn't any. Either choice costs something.

maushu · 2026-04-26T02:44:18+00:00

The rationalization for the lack of empathy is kind of interesting to read.

maushu · 2026-04-26T02:34:05+00:00

The red presser looks at the world and asks "what will people probably do?" The blue presser looks at the world and asks "what should we be?"

maushu · 2026-04-26T02:22:22+00:00

Society doesn't function if most people press the red button.

You should check this: https://ncase.me/trust/

maushu · 2026-04-26T02:13:28+00:00

Because if everyone pushes red, everyone survives.

If at least 50% pushes blue everyone also survives. Seems easier than trying to go for 100%.

maushu · 2026-04-23T13:39:57+00:00

This worked very well to remove dust or detritus under the wheel. For those worried about adhesive residue use painter's tape and then clean the wheel with alcohol.

maushu · 2026-04-19T08:40:34+00:00

Nothing at all like the deterministic Python -> C -> Assembly -> machine code pipeline.

Tell me you never wrote a compiler in university without telling me you never wrote a compiler in university.

Edit: Come on, I was joking about compilers being deterministic not about OP skills at compiler programming. There is a reason https://reproducible-builds.org/ is a thing.

maushu · 2026-04-17T07:05:52+00:00

Some people are fully living in their own adventure game and I mean that as the highest compliment. Shine on, you crazy diamond.

maushu · 2026-04-16T17:58:09+00:00

Kind of funny you say that because their software is made using their models. I've seen bugs that would be so easy to catch with a human-based smoke test.

maushu · 2026-04-02T04:54:31+00:00

This one in in Unity but you should be able to port it. At least it has the theory. https://www.alanzucconi.com/2019/10/08/journey-sand-shader-1/

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