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If only there was a law to uphold this.

I would love to be governed by 500 average Joes and Janes, chosen at random, for a mandatory 4 years of (political) conscription.

But eventually they will themselves vote to abolish this in favour of career politics. It is one of those cursed problems there are no valid solutions to.

Because a working group of 80 career politicians is more effective?

I guess they didn’t read Simon Willison’s latest post on how to make fun games with AI assistance.

#goals

Maybe it’s their day job… they seem to be the kind of commenter that doesn’t have any interest outside of LLMs.

6 Paid search without ads - never launched.

Me and my Kagi sub are a bit dubious of this claim.

> At Vercel, Geist Sans runs the product.

Groan.

Love hearing from the morality police in face of such incredible feat of human effort and ingenuity.

No one who embarks in such an adventure is a ‘well-adjusted’ person, and their personal demons are theirs to face. Yet it is so simple for many to just point and blame at someone else’s fault instead of just appreciating what single-minded effort is able to achieve.

I well expect to be downvoted, as the modern internet culture revels in blame and negativity. Any achievement an opportunity to demolish it. The Puritan morality is stronger than ever. “Let the sinless one among you throw the first stone.”

Congrats to this person, and hope they have learned something about themselves and their place in the world.

I guess fun truly is subjective.

I live to see what kind of tech culture passionless, careless people like you will build.

Thank God you are not tasked to build actual bridges.

Meaning != cause != destiny

I am likewise atheist and I have spent half a decade thinking about meaning. It has nothing to do with religion or God, though some find their meaning there.

I’m not trying to be snarky, but you should read more philosophy. Everybody asks about meaning at one point in their life, and find themselves woefully unprepared.

Caring for a family usually came with help from the community.

Then we decided that nuclear families were the way to go, so we gotta do everything ourselves now, and with both parents working because one breadwinner isn’t enough to live on.

My God, imagine having to learn stuff. Imagine having to care, having a burning passion inside, a message that you need to share with the world in any medium.

We can do away with all that. No need to strive to be a complete person, no need to grow, to challenge yourself.

All you need to do is snap your fingers. What do you mean you still feel hollow inside? You should have asked the machine to also give you a dose of Accomplishment for the task you didn’t put any effort in.

Has mass industrialization of gadgets made significant cultural artifacts?

Art is fine. In fact, I dare say the masses are even more appreciative of capital A Art nowadays that everybody and their dog believe they are an artist because they asked a machine to draw a pretty picture.

We will have a lot more slop, yet humans will keep creating and appreciating Art, because this is what separates them from the beasts.

This answer makes me smile, it’s so naive.

Making a fun, polished game, and not just a quick prototype to post screenshots of on social media, is not just about choosing the right LLM model and telling it ‘make a fun game’