ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
Blogger, Christian convert, general strange one. https://shapesinthefog.substack.com/
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ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
1hr ago
Yeah I was mistaken for some reason I had him tagged in my head as a conservative. Idk.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
1hr ago
Those are all much easier to imagine and less complex than deep human relationships.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
1hr ago
Oh weird I always just thought he was conservative. Never paid much attention to him tbh lol.
Yeah nevermind I retract my statement.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
2hr ago
I actually just wrote a post yesterday touching on some similar points.
One of my theories is that modern relationships and friendships have been so hollowed out that writers just don’t have material from their own lives to work with when it comes to deep romances. It’s something you have to actually live in order to recreate in your characters.
Sadly modern connection has been extremely flattened for a variety of reasons, and it reflects in our art.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
2hr ago
I mean they’re mostly calling him out for being a hypocrite. Which is totally deserved.
Why does it seem like so many conservatives in the public eye are degenerate perverts? Lord have mercy on this wicked generation.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
14hr ago
I'm enjoying all the content on kids! Feel like I'm learning a lot. (Don't have kids but want them.)
What are some of the most important things you've learned since having kids?
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
19hr ago
Hmmm these are reasonable points. But as someone else pointed out, part of the fact that we're in this state is that the government has strong incentives to keep the unemployment rate down.
Then again government dysfunction is increasing too!
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
23hr ago
Ok fair! I don't know the formal definitions of indie. They're small though for sure.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
23hr ago
Absolutely. Agreed on all points here. Even if we do get mass automation, social pressure won't allow for mass unemployment.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
1d ago
Yeah Clair Obscur is amazing. I also do see this but that being said, most market share is still with massive games. There is more room for indie but these behemoth business aren't going to go under overnight.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
1d ago
I do think that disruption is happening, but again it's much more difficult than it seems. Startups typically take a few years just to get off the ground with a viable product, and then it takes like a decade for them to eat a whole industry.
And often before they eat the whole industry, they end up getting acquired by big Corpo and their value gets absorbed and spread out to all the people not doing a super efficient job lol.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
1d ago
My gut feeling is that this AI wave will be a short panic and then basically blow over. To predict massive job loss you have to assume that jobs are already distributed rationally, and that companies are good at adapting to and using new technology efficiently. Neither of these are even remotely true!
If you've ever seen how the sausage gets made at a major company, jobs are very much withheld and created on more of an internal, political basis than any actual needs the companies have. On top of that, most major organizations are still barely adapted to using spreadsheets and the most simple algorithmic techniques that were created decades ago. Literally just using excel to automate tasks could save these companies tens of millions of dollars a year. And yet... they don't?
So the idea that just because there's a new technology coming out that can do a bunch of fancy new stuff, does not convince me that we'll have massive job loss at all. What will likely happen, and what has already been happening for a while, is that the people in white collar roles who can use these tools will just shift off more and more work to them privately, and pretend they are still just as busy. The roles might get a tad more competitive.
But we're not going to be in a doomsday scenario where everyone loses jobs, even IF AGI comes out tomorrow.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
1d ago
I'm so curious for the second one but the images won't load, alas.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
1d ago
YES YES GIVE ME THE GOSS!!!
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
1d ago
I do think the FDA has a thankless task. First, the very real risk of litigation means that if they fast-track anything and it ends up that oops, when it comes to millions of real world patients, the very rare side effects do crop up in noticeable numbers, then somebody is going to take a lawsuit to sue the pants off everyone. Hence, the risk-averse nature of "let's make really really sure this doesn't curl your hair" when it comes to the approval process.
Yeah I agree, and I think this is a much broader problem than just with the FDA. In general government organizations are extremely risk averse due to how damaging litigation can be.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
1d ago
Moral panics when they're about extremely rare events like satanic cannibals are one thing. We're talking about the ascendant ideology which is extremely entrenched and uses the organs of government to do things like force parents to give up their children if they don't subscribe radical political/philosophical views. Moral panics are designed to counter things like this, and I'm glad America in particular has a habit of doing so.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
1d ago
You don’t see the difference between random accidents and intentional mutilation of children for an incoherent ideology?
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
2d ago
Ok fair, I have a history degree I should have known. I guess the recent past is harder for me to grok than the ancient past sometimes.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
2d ago
Fascinating seeing Scott's dark side. Thanks for the links.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
2d ago
Hah this seems like one of those "suffering from success" types of problems.
Also what is your flair referencing?
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
2d ago
Is there anything actually wrong with Coke Zero? and other similar no calorie sweetened beverages?
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
2d ago
The BBC convinced the British public that spaghetti grew on trees.
Wow this is real. Truly a modern marvel.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
2d ago
perhaps better even than most whites
What do you mean by this??
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
3d ago
Yeah I am basically blackpilled on any journalistic integrity in the current culture. We need to have a dramatic realignment of societal values before such a thing becomes possible again, imo.
This is very boo outgroup. No thanks bud.
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