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I would recommend it. It can take a minute your first time through to get to some of the intense optimization stuff, but a lot of it's there really early.The dominant gameplay loop by far is "you have tools. There's a new problem to solve with those tools that's hard/tedious. Solving it means you can make tools that make the problem easier. Goto step one".

I generally assume intent that's more shallow if it's just as explanatory. It's the same reason home appliances occasionally get a burst of AI labeling. "Artificial intelligence" sounds better in advertising than "interpolated multi variable lookup table".It's a type of simple AI (measure water filth from an initial rinse, dry weight, soaked weight, and post spin weight, then find the average for the settings from preprogrammed values.), but it's still AI.

Biggest reason I think it's advertising instead of something more deliberate is because this has happened before. There's some advance in the field, people think AI has allure again and so everything gets labeled that way. Eventually people realize it's not the be all end all and decide that it's not AI, it "just" a pile of math that helps you do something. Then it becomes ubiquitous and people think the notion of calling autocorrect AI is laughable.

That fits. I think games where you need to care for a dumb little creature hit a couple buttons in our psychology. You want to make it do the right thing because you want to succeed at the game and get that reward of "it did good". It's struggling, which means you're paying attention to it, and it's doing so with enough charm that you're not just entirely indifferent. Most importantly, it needs to succeed often enough to make sure you know it can, and slowly get better so you have the long term satisfaction of having improved it. Extra bonus points if you can give a bit of wish fulfillment fantasy. "My sim who regularly eats old fish out of the trash is somehow a self employed artist who lives in a great house I got distracted and built to my dream specification. I would totally play pool until I wet myself and fell asleep crying on the floor."

I think there's actually a lot of truth to fun being related to frustration. If something is too easy you don't get the dopamine hit, because why would your brain reward you for learning something trivial? If it's too hard the path to most joy is giving up. At the sweet spot it's obviously possible, but you struggle enough that you get a dash of dopamine for succeeding. The trick is keeping the struggle varied or infrequent enough that you're brain doesn't declare it a source of diminishing returns.

Shitty mobile games are the king of it, since they have a standard/easy ramp that quickly moves to just above most people's threshold with the "out" of a loot box that has a chance to give you a bonus labeled as just a small boost. And they're normally $10/10, but the 50 packs is $15 for the moment, and since you're new you get $10 off....

Not-those types of games tend to just try for "balanced difficulty scaling".

The factorio dev blog has some good reads about finding the right balance of tedium as driving mechanism to figure out automation and also needing the game to be enjoyable. Basically the moment an activity becomes stale they want you to be able to automate it

City skylines would be the best place to live, and would have a natural friendship with factorio.

It would be a bit weird making a bowl of cereal and having a freight train blast up to your house at 200mph, a robot flies out of the depot just past the dog park, skims above the pedestrian walkways at just under the speed of sound, unloads the single stack of of cereal boxes that the train is carrying and sticks it in your pantry before they both vanish just as fast. You only had a half a box of raisin bran left and you hit the resupply threshold.

Okay, but trying to guide a braindead little sim automaton through basically playing factorio would be incredible. "Oh my God, why are you running the blue circuit belt through there? Stop it! No! STOP CRYING DIANE, YOU CHOSE TO SKIP EATING AND USE A SUSHI BELT. Stop eating off the floor, there's coal everywhere".

I'd even go a step further and say your last point is about generative LLMs, since text classification and sentiment analysis are also pretty benign.

It's tricky because we're having a social conversation about something that's been mislabeled, and the label has been misused dozens of times as well.

It's like trying to talk about knife safety when you only have the word "pointy".

They were the union of two previously existing agencies, immigration and naturalization services and the US customs service.It may have been unnecessary, but it was part of a larger federal law enforcement and intelligence apparatus reorganization, and not a net new block of enforcement operations.

Excluding deporting people needlessly for racist bullshit reasons, they have other responsibilities regarding human trafficking, and certain classes of international crime.

The US has done many horrible things, but that's an awful list to go by. It mixes US involvement in the Philippines and the nightmare that was with "Israel killed someone and it's likely the US was aware", NATO involvement in Bosnia, and the US usage of radio and press releases to influence world opinion in its favor.Specific incidents in Bosnia? Certainly. But on the face of it, the US joining with other nations to intervene in an ethnically driven civil war isn't an attrocity. The US being aware of an Israeli operation isn't a US attrocity. Propaganda isn't an attrocity.Hell, one entry literally seemed to be "American soldiers reported a South Korean war crime through appropriate channels, and this didn't change US foreign policy"

Mixing actual attrocities in with the benign or unrelated things just dilutes the actual attrocities, particularly when the preamble says to play up to emotional outrage.

Why do you think violence would accelerate things? They don't need the violence to be real to react to it, so if it would accelerate things for them they would just do it. Likewise, protest or strikes aren't going to magically be treated as peaceful. They'll just call it an insurrection regardless. . It's why a lot of people hesitate to act. There's a big difference between a protest where your local police department might use tear gas if you stick around after they tell you to leave and a protest where the president is encouraging random nut jobs to hit you with a car, has encouraged your police department to shoot you, and is sending the national guard to shoot you.

50% of the electorate wouldn't be hurt by sanctions, or 50% of the electorate would be arrested?

In either case, I'm referring to the president, his staff and cabinet. People actually directly making decisions who won't see any consequences from sanctions.

Nah. Just a targeted police action to arrest the rogue elements who purport to be the lawfully elected government.

They'd be justified in sanctions, but I don't think that it would actually accomplish anything. The people doing this shit don't give a flying fuck about them because it would hurt you and me, not them.

I mean, it can be absurd and also why they do it. Plantars don't add extra oil to theirs, so they need more binder. They're not doing it for no reason at all or to specifically spite those who don't eat animal products.

Animal protein works better as a binder in most cases. It keeps the seasoning from falling off as fast.

Honestly, nothing much really comes to mind as a special precaution that I would think of. Don't go down alleys alone, don't follow strangers that try to get you to go places. Don't get drunk alone in unfamiliar areas that aren't super populated. Don't make flashy displays of wealth.

No real impact on daily life. I've gotten lost in bad parts of Detroit before and that was unideal, but that was because there's still a lot of ability for people to know you don't live there just based on appearance.

So, my intent is not to turn this into the misery Olympics or anything, so I'm just going to clarify a few points and say that the main thrust of my message was the end: if people are telling you what they can and can't afford in a country you're less familiar with, it's probably better to assume they know their own economy better than you do, rather than deciding a nation of hundreds of millions of people are financially over cautious.

The $1000 figure is for all of the US, regardless of if it's high income low cost of living or anything else, and refers to money that can be deposited in savings at the end of the month.For example, the UK has this figure at roughly $1100 USD.

The city I live in has remarkably close to twice the expenses as yours. In the US a car isn't optional unless you live in the biggest if cities though. It would take four hours for me to walk to my doctor's office, and longer by bus, but there's only four bus visits per day at the office. A fair bit of the roadway lacks sidewalks. Either way a doctor's visit means taking a day off work if you don't have a car.

The 25% rate isn't poverty rate, it's more a measure of financial safety margin. You can be well above the poverty line and still have zero net income, it just means you can't tolerate changes in income or expenses without things becoming extremely problematic. Our poverty level is based on an idealized measure of food costs nationwide and does a poor job measuring things. It was originally put together before we had great knowledge of what contributed to poverty, and it's been a political tool used as a lever to justify cutting assistance programs for a long time, so changing it has been difficult.

I think you got my description backwards. There's an amount I pay no matter what, and a point after which I pay nothing (with caveats). So the most I pay is that $11k number, unless the insurance company decides a procedure was unnecessary or the provider was unsupported (if you end up in the hospital you might not be able to choose your doctors, and some of them might not be covered by your insurance, which you'll find out later. Aforementioned baby delivery cost $650,000 . I paid $6,500. Then I got billed for another $12,000 and change because of stuff like the insurance company deciding some tests were unnecessary and not working with some of the nurses.). My insurance situation is pretty good though, since a lot of people have significantly less at a higher cost.

it sounds like you're probably better off with any odd job in Europe if you put it that way

That is in many ways true. America has a higher cap on income but Europe generally has a better safety net. I'm fortunate to have ended up in a low cost of living area with a high salary job, so I'm currently better off where I am, but as children and myself get older, a social safety net that means my retirement isn't at the whims of the stock market and an education system that won't potentially put my children in debt for life has an increasingly large appeal.

San Diego is a very high cost of living area. $100,000 would be a modest income there that would get you a minimal comfortable life. Like, $3,000 a month for a 1 bedroom apartment.San Diego is also one of the safest cities in the US. Fun fact: while confirming that I found out I live in one of the more dangerous cities in the country. So that's fun.So yeah, San Diego is gonna give you more wealthy people with higher costs of living and very low crime. Factor that in to your assessments.

Housing economics are very disparate between countries. You can't directly compare them easily. A two story house is basic construction here, they tend to avoid building anything smaller because it's not significantly cheaper to build or sell. Our houses are built with different objectives so they tend to be cheaper to make taller, and it's just expected that it'll get replaced in 50 or 60 years.The person you talked to in San Diego was likely renting a house, which is often cheaper than an apartment. That fits with the price you mentioned.

Well that's different. We all know that the second amendment is the only enumerated right to have no exceptions or limitations, and the founders explicitly wanted every American to have as many guns as possible, and that it's downright treasonous to imply that "since militias are critical for free society, you can't stop people from owning guns" might imply an intended use case for said guns.

... Are you actually taking a "blame the baby" approach to "baby run over by lawnmower"?

Margaret was bringing in the groceries and her 18 month old went to pick a flower while she tried to get something unstuck in the trunk. Quiet street, nothing crazy going on. Kid darted off to the other side of the driveway, slipped on the dew on a small grassy incline and shot under the robot mower that had none of the safety features I mentioned. Margaret thought it was safe to let her child be within eyesight but out of reach in the front yard while the neighbor mowed the lawn, unaware there was no one there.

Are you satisfied that maybe the manufacturer has some blame in this tragedy, or are you going to continue to maintain that the maker of a thing is morally unencumbered by the impact that thing has on the world?

Consider what the world would be like if chatgpt just... Didn't engage with what appeared to be delusional lines of thinking? Or if, even if you promised it was for a story, it said it wasn't able to help you construct a plausible narrative to justify killing your mother?

We do not need the tool, and so defending unsafe design choices is just "personal responsibility stops at the cash register".

Fun fact: I think that firearm and firearm accessory manufacturers continued drive for high sales at all costs should make them legally liable for certain attrocities committed with the tools they made.The argument that it's the users fault for using the tool in the way it was designed isn't a compelling defense, particularly when the accusation is that it was reckless to make it in the first place.

understand this as over half Americans make less than 1400€ a month. I assume you were exaggerating a bit

After expenses and taxes the average American household brings in under $1000 dollars a month. It varies by region since cost of living and wages vary significantly. 25% of Americans have no net income after expenses, and 1/3 have a net worth of $0 or less. In euros that's less than €800 a month.

Essential goods usually refers to medical expenses, but it's also used to refer to food, rent and utilities. Even if you're employed and have insurance medical costs can be high.I'm not in a bad situation at all, I'm actually in a very good one, and I pay about $400 a month for insurance and have a yearly cap of $6500 in costs, not counting medicine or the actual cost of insurance (so I'll pay at least $4800, and at most $11,300+the cost of medicine+the cost of anything the insurance company thinks I didn't need after the fact. ). I've hit the max for the past two years, once because baby and again because baby got a nasty cough and they spent a little being observed for safety.

My example was not homeless people. That's what happens if you become elderly and have financial difficulties earlier in life here. A lot of Americans simply can't afford to stop working, ever. I don't remember a time I haven't seen at least a person who should definitely be retired doing menial labor, and wheelchair and oxygen is common enough that it's not really not worthy.

Besides, I know many people doing odd jobs and working a couple days a week. Working this way allows them to safely rent a house, to have food and extra money for diversion as well as saving up for times in which there may be no available jobs. Most of them can probably go on one year without working with the minimal savings they have.

That is not how it is in America. Housing, food and recreation on a part time job is actually a laughable fantasy, and that's before you add "having savings".

America's economic disparity and lack of social safety net makes risk taking exceptionally dangerous.

You seem like a worldly and well traveled person. Use that experience to understand that there's a rational reason Americans tend to be risk adverse in this regard. We either actually can't afford it, or we can't afford it without a shocking risk.

Just in case you missed the point of what I was saying: I don't think we should have a baby killing machine. The maker of a tool has a responsibility to take at least reasonable precautions to ensure their tool is used safely. In the case of an autonomous lawnmower, they typically have a lot of sensors to avoid stuff, are shaped so they can't easily run over things they're not supposed to, and in many cases have blades on pivots that while they could hurt someone are able to do significantly less damage.

Being "just a tool" doesn't exempt something from being critically judged because it could be an unsafe tool by an irresponsible maker. The tool maker has a responsibility to make their tool safely and properly, and if they can't they need to not make the tool.

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