YoungAchamian
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YoungAchamian
11d ago
Yeah it's a long game, if we finish in 10hrs we were moving pretty quick. The expectation is that if you sit down to play its a 12-14 hour game at the minimum. We did the draft mode at 5-Players over break and it took 17.5 hrs. In hindsight we should have broken it up into two days, but that's the game.
YoungAchamian
12d ago
Not really a video game, but I got the new Twilight Imperium 4th Edition expansion played the new franken-draft game mode: Twilight's fall. Got super addicted to it and and couldn't wait for my group to organize another game so I've started playing it online via the online asynchronous community. It plays a lot like online diplomacy in that people take turns throughout the day politic/react. Very addicting, I got almost no work done this week...
YoungAchamian
16d ago
It was meant to be a comment on his: "If you can't explain it to a 5 year old, you don't really understand it" (the irony is not lost of me). Here (this medium article and hundreds others like it) I feel like people use deliberately obscuring or jargon rich language because its not about the conversation, its about the social-intellectual signaling.
And what is honestly the worst part, is if you don't partake you are the odd one out. Signaling you are either too autistic, truth-driven, or asocial to really get with the program of speaking AI-gobbly-gook speak to the peons in an attempt to sell more, network more, chest bump more etc. It really is a weird and annoying af failure mode.
YoungAchamian
17d ago
I found this insightful
Admittedly I skimmed it but I didn't find it all that enlightening. Maybe this is just my personal pet peeve or I am getting cantankerous in my old age, but I really hate the sci-fi/mathematical-gooblie-gook that lots of AI/ML discourse becomes. It become increasingly hard for my midwit engineering brain to parse what is actually being talked about rather than people wanting to be seen "to have deep AI understanding". It's like a deliberate failing of the Feynman Technique in order to sound impressive and smart. If I have to spend 10 mins a paragraph and a bunch of Wikipedia tabs trying to understand what you are conveying, that's bad.
I'm actually curious what the semantic distance between this and how I talk about AI/ML in my professional life to my non-mle colleagues. Maybe I sound closer to this than I think, which terrifies me. My heuristic is the more unparsable, jargon-filled sounding it is, the more scammer-adjacent the speaker.
I got 7% with one disagreement. I'd say its more of a semantic conflict with their question.
I think the answer is pretty straightforward. A person doesn't have consciousness and selfhood after bodily death but they continue to exist in memories, impact, legacy as almost an egregore. It's encapsulated by the saying from the Havamal and my favorite song Helvengen: "Cattle die, kinsmen die, You yourself will also die; I know one thing that never dies The reputation of those who died" and “Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name. In some ways men can be immortal.” - Hemingway
(I hate this spoiler formatting, I give up trying to get the last paragraph to be hidden)
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