Yes, everyone. The username makes it clear. Really though, the supreme arrogance of calling the whole of an entirely different industry mediocre is practically indicative of our craft at this point.
I think that dismissal culture makes no sense when it is aimed towards artists.
For me it is kind of hard to like the things I produce, because of the obvious egocentrism bias. Do I like it, because I like it, or do I like it, because I made it and had to sacrifice something for it?
When I'm judging other people's work and I like it, I consider that feeling to be more genuine, even if the creator outright panders to my preferences.
I've been thinking the same. One way to moderate is to bring back physical consequences.
I'd also like to see an "Order of the White Lotus" community (or Fight Club if you prefer) where people who collectively agree to not use AI against each other can come together. They can still use AI (i.e. out of necessity) just not with other members knowingly.
I suspect whatever form it takes the stakes will be very high to hack yourself into and pollute the space. So the more successful the community becomes, the harder it is to keep in order.
I've always been fascinated by nostalgia. It is such universal source of both positive and negative feelings for people. If anyone has any books or other media about nostalgia I'd love to hear about it.
Today's Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox (blegh) will be tomorrow's nostalgia. I just don't know if there will be cheap hardware available for future adults to experience it though. Plus it seems that pop culture is so much more fragmented now thanks to social media, so it's harder to capitalize on a single IP to milk later on.
Minecraft to me is similar to unreal tournament (I forget which version) as well as computer hardware from ~2015 onwards. It happened after some sort of critical point of technological development had passed such that it doesn't feel old to me unless I examine it immediately adjacent to something modern.
I suppose that will change for the games if truly high fidelity head mounted displays ever take off. For the hardware I'm less certain because aside from pointlessly bloated web frontends nothing that I do on a day to day basis actually consumes more resources than it did in 2015. Perhaps local AI on low power devices will be the critical point for me there?
> I've always been fascinated by nostalgia. It is such universal source of both positive and negative feelings for people.
I read somewhere that nostalgia is just bitterness towards the present. It's an emotional trap and best not to linger in nostalgia too long. Change is inevitable, we can't go backwards.
I don't buy that. Writing is taking a bad rap from all this. Writing _is_ a form of more intense reading. Reading on steroids, as they say. If reading is considered good, writing should be considered better.
Writing in that draft style is really only useful because a) you read the results and b) you write an improved version at the end. Drafting forever is not considered "better" because someone (usually you) has to sift through the crap to find the good parts.
This is especially pronounced in the programming workplace, where the most "senior" programmers are asked to stop programming so they can review PRs.
Is there a bet for when Polymarket/Kalshi go kaput? Maybe a bet on each other's platforms? How about for the CEOs to lose their jobs? Or for them to get in an accident?
It feels like people do this to Canada to get in to the USA as well.
Ireland->UK seems to be increasing as well because of the Common Travel Area.
I think a lot of historical agreements of this nature will not hold up in the era of mass international migration. The CTA is obviously a complex example.
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