stoneforger

Who is this helping? What is creative about using their dog as a lava lamp?

The answer.

Old matress

Adding more complexity to uncover issues caused by complexity defeats the purpose but I guess people need to sell shovels.

Well they used the money to buy a house in New York so it wasn't 15000 , because that's not a down payment for a New York house/ apt, even in the 90s.

Of the games you mention it's civilization that's kind of hard to replay for me. RR tycoon had fewer, worse, iterations. All Xcom games are super replayable with the exception of Xcom 3. Colonization is super replayable and it's only reiteration based on Civ 4 is not worth it.

Hey man people either get it or they don't. We're doomed.

Because if we engineered these to work, then we'd be out of a job because the problems would be solved and we could not sell the same service or software 1000 times.

Everything in a society is a manifestation of politics, it's the cybernetics of society.

You don't get how this works. You buy in AWS because everyone else is , so it's expected. It diffuses risk to your stock options. This also begets a whole generation of people who can only use cloud services so now you are more hard pressed to find people with experience to run things without the cloud. You also create a bigger expenses sheet so it shows you're investing and growing, attracting more investors. "We pay 10 mil in AWS , we're that big". It's classic perverse incentives feeding into a monoculture.

Yeah it's called wealth transfer and the vast majority is on the wrong end.

Amen to that.

Sounds like a false dichotomy. NASA got all these different subcontractors to feed, in all these different states and they explicitly gutted MOL and dynasoar and all the air force projects that needed weird orbits and reentry trajectories so the space shuttle became a huge compromise. Perverse incentives and all that. It's not state organizations per se but rather non-profits that need to have a clear goal that creates capabilities, tools and utilities that act as multipliers for everyone. A pretty big cooperative. Like, I dunno , what societies are supposed to exist for.

You would need a new sense of self and a life free of fear, raising children where they can truly be anything they like and teach their own kids how to find meaning in a life lived well. "Best I can do is treefiddy" though..

Bro it's fine everyone's doing it get to the program. We all just need to use multiple agents with memory and skills and orchestrate them, connect them to ticketing systems with workload federation and let them create lambdas to push artifacts from a CI that has audit logs and snyk scanning, let them spin up a few kubernetes clusters per commit, then write the test suites with headless chrome and simulated agents that run A/B testing with multiple backups, regional HA, SSO, vertical and horizontal autoscaling, otel agents that rewrite what they collect based on other agentic processes that also run via lambdas that monitor datadog and splunk and sentry, automated PRs and red teaming. If you don't think about all of that even when you sleep do you even care about the customer?