cjet79
Anarcho Capitalist on moral grounds
Libertarian Minarchist on economic grounds
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cjet79
11mo ago
Yes and no. There are theoretically other genetics that might heavily gate a sport behind a non-athletic characteristic. I just don't know if any actual examples.
Gymnastics is sort of gated behind being short, so I'd sort of discount the abilities of those athletes as well. But that's just the other side of the coin with height.
I don't consider IQ to be athleticism related so if there were any sports that were heavily gated by it I'd apply the same discount to the athletes within that sport. But I don't know of any sports that are like that. Maybe chess boxing? Or maybe Esports which no one really looks to for examples of supreme athleticism. Even though most Esports players are in relatively good shape.
cjet79
11mo ago
No he's playing against lazy tall players. I just don't know how good he is as an athlete. Kinda the same problem as babe Ruth vs modern day hitters. Babe Ruth was hitting against shittier pitchers than there are today. I bet there is a player or two on every professional baseball team that might have beaten babe Ruth's record had they the opportunity to hit against the same caliber of pitchers.
cjet79
12d ago
None of those stories clicked with me either. Though usually cradle and worth the candle get people.
I'd second the Mother of Learning recommendation that wayfarer suggested. If you bounce off that as well then the genre just isn't something I think you'll enjoy.
But if you want tighter storytelling and more of the arc story completion then maybe The Perfect Run might be a better entry point.
cjet79
12d ago
I read quickly and nearly constantly, so that helps. Also its been 8 years since I started reading this genre. 25-30 stories a year isn't a hard number to hit. I've also dropped many long stories, I don't feel compelled to finish anything I've started, and if I read 200 pages of a 1000 page story I still consider myself to have "read" it.
cjet79
1mo ago
I think he just sounds like a corpse but is relatively healthy. He has some voice condition.
Or did you mean he is a corpse because he is a Kennedy family member in politics?
cjet79
2mo ago
To clear up some things:
You are not getting any form of special leniency.
What I was trying to say is that there is a law of large numbers effect going on. If user A and user B both have about a 1% rate of a rule breaking post. But user A writes 1000 posts and user B only writes 10 posts then user A is way more likely to get in trouble and get banned. We don't want this outcome, so we will try and get a sense of the rate of violation (that 1% number).
Having upsetting beliefs is allowed, because to do otherwise creates a failure mode for all discussions.
There are often times where someone comes in and makes a post with clearly upsetting beliefs. Sometimes that person is a Nazi, one time that person was someone that believed child molestation should be allowed, most times it's just a belief that your political opponents should suffer (and some of those political opponents are on this discussion board).
What then happens is someone makes it personal or attacks them "you are a Nazi scumbag" or "you should be castrated". They then get banned. It looks like we allowed trolls to bait a response and get someone kicked out.
The simple alternative to this is topic bans of anything that might upset a bunch of users. This is the alternative that most of the leftist web embraced in the mid 2010's. The leftists then weaponized this, and got most topics that they didn't like banned from their spaces.
We don't do topic bans. We've tried to find another approach where we don't ban any topics but we try to find etiquette rules where people don't write the original post in the most inflammatory way possible.
We do not like permabans. They are an option of last resort.
I think we average like one, maybe two permabans a year for power users. They are rare. They are often proceeded by a dozen or more warnings and tempbans and usually a complete lack of quality contributions. The mods usually have multi day long discussions and usually we have full consensus before we carry it out.
A one day ban like this would not sway anything in regards to a permaban decision.
You are not my enemy, and neither are most users. Some users choose to be our enemies.
They mostly are not a good fit for this forum and they want us to do things differently. Usually not enforce rules against them or their allies, or enforce extra rules against their other enemies. Their method to get changes to happen is often to badger us and annoy us anytime we do our standard duties. And undermine anything we do. Their feedback is always "this ban is bad", and thus their feedback is useless as a comparative barometer.
The most mature of users who don't fit do not become our enemies, instead they voluntarily leave. Sometimes they will ask us for a permaban that we will grant to them.
Those that stay and cause trouble like to be rules lawyers and twist everything we say against us. It's exhausting and annoying, which is their exact goal. The more annoying it is for us to conduct moderation the less we will do of it. I have no doubt that I will regret writing some part of this open view into moderation here. Maybe I'll tag you when it happens to show you what I mean.
cjet79
2mo ago
I occasionally get recommended the Gothic games when I'm looking for a game that allows for overpowered and unlimited levelling. How is Drova in that regard?
cjet79
2mo ago
Ya I enjoyed Northgard as well. The games are sort of mechanically similar, but it feels more like "influenced by Northgard" than "Northgard with different paint".
The main similarity is the territory and unit mechanic. But that's obvious from any videos.
What's not as obvious is that there are other areas where factions compete:
- The Landsaraad which is a political forum, where various random gameplay effects can be voted on. The gameplay effects can be large, and the politically powerful factions can basically operate at a permanent advantage.
- Espionage. There are agents than can be assigned to give resource bonuses, or sent as spies to other factions. At the highest levels you can assassinate enemy leaders to eliminate a faction.
- The spice market. This mechanic is a little straightforward "buy your way to victory".
I've also really enjoyed the campaign gameplay. Which consists of a string of skirmish missions, or sometimes special victory condition missions (like conduct an assassination, or befriend the fremen). Victory at the main objective and secondary objectives grants resource bonuses for future skirmish maps. By the end of the campaign I'm usually acquiring enough bonuses to make me almost unbeatable, and missions become more of time attack challenges. But I enjoy being the overpowered unstoppable team in RTSs and I've only been playing on medium difficulty.
cjet79
2mo ago
The story is a bit of an odd duckling. It feels closer to cozy western fantasy than most cultivation. The main character is an old man, and generally concerned with his extended family/ descendants. The sect he joins is good. It's different from many cultivation stories that have selfish jerk MCs playing in a world of only terrible people. Generally if you are looking to avoid dysfunctional families I'd agree that avoiding all cultivation novels is smart. But just consider this something that might fit your preferences that otherwise would get totally filtered out from your searches.
cjet79
3mo ago
Just slow role the 2000 pages and you'll hit the finish line by the time the last chapter comes out in a week. Or if your reading speed is not an excessive 300 pages a day then don't worry.
cjet79
4mo ago
I specifically claimed that there are enclaves where people don't assimilate. Often it is in cities. Your response: "poppycock [exactly what I just said]"
Honestly if you hadn't included the "poppycock" or the "no thank you" I would have thought you were just pointlessly agreeing with what I said.
The rural enclaves all end up speaking exclusively American English within a generation or two. They all heavily consume American culture. Many of them volunteer for the military at higher rates.
The urban enclaves I have a sense of "who gives a shit". They stay in a city and live out their lives in a weird half-in-half-out state. And their kids slowly abandon them to the wider much better culture and economy that is all around them. They have all the vibrancy and threat of a museum.
cjet79
4mo ago
I read Zvi he follows AI much closer than I will ever bother to.
There are potential tricks around the problem you talk about. One of the easier ones is asking the AI to prompt engineer itself. "How would you request a task to do X" ... "How would you improve this prompt that is a request to do task X" ... keep doing that and asking separately "which is a better prompt to do task X".
The sense I get is that there is thinking that an AI is doing, but it is mostly like a dice roll. Rolling consecutively for a cumulatively high number isn't a great strategy, but you don't need to do that. You can instead do something where you re-roll for the best possible roll, then move on to the next roll and do the same thing.
cjet79
5mo ago
I can't stop people from going and consulting AI. I did say in the original post, that using it as a sort of sanity check or impromptu polling seems fine.
I'm personally not very interested in talking to the "centaurs" as you describe them (human centaurs seems redundant, unless you mean human legs and horse torso). I think there is a value in having another human brain process your words and spit back a disagreement about those words. If they are offloading the processing and the output to an AI they have just become a bad/slow interface for that AI.
I think we are basically at AGI right now. So hold the gates as long as we can and enjoy this space until the internet as we know it is gone in a flood of digital minds.
cjet79
5mo ago
Ya that's a thing too. I just know what that trolling instinct feels like, and I know what insecurity feels like. And Elon just pattern matches with trolling much better right now.
cjet79
5mo ago
I don't see why it's not trolling. And to your second paragraph, yes. I'm not an Elon fanboy, he seems like a clearly flawed individual. The take I've seen that best explains him is that he has been taking lots of testosterone.
cjet79
5mo ago
Reading glasses? If yes, then the prescriptions are easy enough to find cheaply and in bulk. My parents typically order like a 5 pack of them and just sprinkle them around the house.
If lasik is at all an option do it. I only wish there were more thousand dollar procedures out there that could enhance my body.
cjet79
5mo ago
This is totally on point however, figuring this out is how I stopped getting banned all the time.
Which user were you when you got banned? Cuz it wasn't this one.
cjet79
5mo ago
France.
And I'm tempted to just rewrite exactly what I wrote above. Working civilization is not a zero sum game like competitive basketball. It's not about being better than everyone else, it's about being good enough to cross a threshold. More like can you shoot a basket, rather than can you win a game of basketball.
cjet79
6mo ago
I'd be interested if there is something sufficiently interesting happening.
I don't mean that facetiously. Like I'm not against football. I just don't want to follow the day to day. But if something like deflategate, or some amazing string of wins, or some new way of playing that shakes things up happens I want to know.
If someone had to sum up each season and describe the interesting things that happened within one paragraph, I'd totally read that.
I do like the amazing feats of athleticism and the close strategic calls. I know about 99% of the rules (and I'm interested in learning how those rules change season to season, and why they changed).
I feel like people are sometimes all in on football or totally anti football, and y'all are maybe grouping me in anti football. That's not where I'm at. I'm partially interested.
cjet79
6mo ago
Europe's average IQ is 100 today. And that "100" has been a has changed in meaning over the last century with the Flynn effect.
We don't know what it was in 1800, because the test didn't exist at the time. We do know that a bunch of things with negative impacts on IQ were part of their daily lives. Everyone was drinking beer and wine, since it was the main way to get clean water. Which means alcohol during pregnancy, and early adolescence. They were burning coal and wood constantly to keep warm, that destroys health. There were rolling famines in Ireland, and refugees from it were suffering from malnutrition in early childhood.
I would not be surprised if the average IQ of Britain was in the 75-85 range in the late 1700s. They dealt with it and built a world spanning empire because of superior culture and policy.
Search engines suck nowadays. Can't find source. Chatgpt agrees with me that they've released source code for TES 2, 3, and 4. I think they do so after they drop all support for the game.
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