MathWizard
Good things are good
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MathWizard
Good things are good
1d ago
Make giant pots of soup and freeze them (in individual serving sizes). If you x3, x4, x5 a normal soup recipe it takes less than that many times effort. Especially if you use one that includes a bunch of things like canned tomatoes and beans rather than fresh chopped vegetables (though most of mine take a combination of both). Eat some of it fresh, freeze the rest (we have a bunch of plastic 2-cup containers my wife brought home from work). This doesn't work for every type of soup (noodles turn to mush, for example) but for some of them it's fine. Then on demand you can unfreeze a serving of soup and it has all of the cost and nutrition value of homemade soup but the convenience of canned soup. If you regularly do this with a variety of recipes then you can have a variety of soup types so you're not stuck eating the same thing every day.
It also works with other things like pizza or calzones. My basement freezer is a big box packed with presents from past me to future me. The point being I don't want to cook every day. But I can have home cooked meals every day anyway, as long as I force multiply when I need to.
MathWizard
Good things are good
2d ago
If your hobbies work that way then that might work. I am a massive introvert, I like staying home and playing videogames or board games, not going out to meet people. And my wife is that way too. I was never going to find her by going out and being social, and if I had picked up a new social hobby to meet people I would have mostly met people who like whatever that hobby is that I would be pretending to like.
I found her on a dating website. And it was painful, because I had to go through hundreds and hundreds of stupid normies and people looking for quick hookups, or just the wrong kinds of nerds. Luckily by being a weird nerd myself I screened off most of the people who were a bad fit pretty quickly, Despite looking for like 4 years I only ever went on one real life date prior to finding my wife. But I eventually found her and now we stay at home not doing external social things together.
I don't know how well that scales in general. That's what worked for me. But also I knew I wanted to find someone and I knew what I was looking for (as close to a female copy of me as possible, basically), so I went through a bunch of effort, and a lot of waiting, to make it happen.
It was a couple weeks ago but I tried out Pathologic 3 and I am... not a fan. The Pathologic series is known for being brutal and unforgiving, trying to cure a plague and slowly losing as you have to make hard decisions with limited resources. Very much not my thing. But someone left a review of Pathologic 3 that was like "it's a time loop! The developers saw all the people saving and loading and saving and loading and trying to optimize their runs on the previous games, and decided to bake that into the mechanics."
And that sounded like fun to me. I really like time loop stories where the character is up against overwhelming odds but manages to win anyway by exploiting the ability to try over and over again and learn and cheat using future knowledge. Even if the game is super hard, I can tinker and optimize stuff and fix any of my mistakes by rewinding.
What the review failed to mention is that even though the plot revolves around a time loop, the mechanics are still based around finite resources and brutal hard mechanics. Every consumable you use to restore your statuses permanently reduces the effectiveness of future uses of that type of consumable. Every time you rewind it consumes a non-renewable resource. It's not a true time loop, because even if the plot allows you to redo decisions and change the consequences of your choices, your vital resources don't respawn and you can only do it a finite number of times. Every time you mess up in an encounter and die it forcibly rewinds to the last time you saved, which uses up the time resource. And if you do it too many times and run out of the resource the game deletes your save and you have to start the entire game over again. This is more harsh than a normal game that lets you save and load at will, not less.
This didn't even happen to me. As soon as I discovered that the time rewinding used up resources I googled to see if it was renewable, saw that it was not, and stopped playing. I do not play games that threaten me with permadeath. Not unless it's a roguelite where each character only exists for like an hour (and even then I usually only play if there's meta-progression that persists). If there's a realistic chance of me having to reset or backtrack more than 5 hours of gameplay and have to do it all over again, I'm just not going to play in the first place. It's bad game design, it's not fun. The Pathologic people are trying to be hardcore and brutal and catering to a masochistic audience that likes that sort of thing. You're allowed to have a niche. And I knew that about the first two games which is why I never played them. I'm just kind of annoyed that this one was presented differently and then wasn't.
MathWizard
Good things are good
2d ago
My understanding is that the vast majority of people need a life partner in order to be fulfilled and happy throughout their life. It is a deeply ingrained human instinct to want a partner, and sex, and children, because evolution means everyone historically who didn't have these died without passing on their genes.
This does not make it universal (otherwise gay people couldn't exist). Psychology is complicated, genes are not deterministic, and once you've unpacked from a genetic code into an actual human being, you should treat your own actual self as more important than whatever evolution originally intended for you to do.
I would definitely be highly skeptical of any desires that go against it. I got married but we decided not to have kids and I am slightly paranoid that 20 years from now I'm going to regret it. But I can't imagine me right now doing a good job of it if I don't actually want it, so that's not enough to change my mind.
I also can't imagine a me who never dated or got married. Actually yes I can, I would be lonely, just like I was for the decade before I met my wife. I have always wanted to fall in love and get married, for as long as I can remember as a child. Which is to say, I can't relate to your experience. And that might speak to a fundamental difference. You might actually be happier alone. I'm skeptical, maybe you just haven't met the right person. But it seems plausible.
The problem is not that Anthropic is right and the DOW is wrong. The problem is that the DOW agreed to their terms, then changed its mind, then threw a hissy fit and abused the law to punish them when they didn't agree to a retroactive changing of the terms.
As a private company, Anthropic is entitled to negotiate whatever contract it wants, and its customers can accept or decline. If it doesn't want to license its rightful private property to be used for certain purposes, and apply this fairly and equally to everyone (it's not picking on the DOW here, nobody is allowed to use its AI for autonomous weapons or mass surveillance), that's their right as a private company. If you don't like that then don't sign a contract with them. Nobody has a right to their AI, it's theirs. That's how the free market is supposed to work. The government can't just call people terrorists or supply chain risks in retaliation for not giving them extra favorable terms in contract negotiations. That's fascism, in a literal non-exaggerated way, that's what that term actually means.
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