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Johan Holm
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Johan Holm
@JohanSHolm
Game designer, critic. Interstice, Maestro, Breakout Poetry.
UK Katılım Kasım 2017
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@PerkyWhale @cyberpyre It didn’t even “read” his book all at once, it simply has no memory of the process by which that knowledge was gradually formed. Extremely dumb and ingratiating.
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@cyberpyre The fact that it thinks it apprehends time simultaneously while its processes happen over time is a clear indicator that it understands neither time nor its own processes. It is not conscious.
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@acidiclemon2 @FabricioNakata @GarrettPetersen Do you not see that you are making assumptions about how this works now? Insisting on voting based on these assumptions and fringe mechanics is very silly imo. Any real life implementation would differ on those details and all your theorizing would be void.
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@JohanSHolm @FabricioNakata @GarrettPetersen But there is. The text already says if red wins people who don't vote red don't survive.
One way to participate in any vote is to abstain.
The text didn't specify it, but we can easily imagine there is a 2 hour time limit for button pressing. If no button pressed, you abstained
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The game theory of red and blue buttons involves predicting what other people will do. And what other people will do requires them to predict what other people will do. So you have a recursive prediction of other behaviour. That's why it's so sensitive to framing.
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@acidiclemon2 @FabricioNakata @GarrettPetersen But when there's no functional way to have "everyone" vote, saying that everyone will vote will lose credibility as a whole.
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@JohanSHolm @FabricioNakata @GarrettPetersen Yes, the "how" those groups vote is underspecified.
The group itself is fully specified by "everyone".
Just because the "how" is underspecified, doesn't mean we should re-define the already fully-specified parameter.
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@acidiclemon2 @FabricioNakata @GarrettPetersen Mechanistically, how are these categories going to press the button if these are individual isolated acts with no interference or influence from others?
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@acidiclemon2 @FabricioNakata @GarrettPetersen "Everyone" does not have an obvious clear meaning when you get into the weeds, and "votes" can absolutely imply some ability to mentally decide. Does it include the braindead, or those in a coma? Mentally healthy people with zero muscle control? Unborn fetuses? Just-born babies?
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@RhyminCarly I lived with my mom’s cousin in a different region! Only for like a month, but it was cool. Walked their dog, borrowed my step-second-cousin’s bike to go into town, and she made great food.
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I think about this all the time. Similarly, my grandma sometimes will tell a story that starts “I was living in a different town, because I wanted a job, so I moved in with my mom’s cousin…” like you could just send your teen to live with a distant relative. No one does that now
Megan Basham@megbasham
I love how people in the 18th century were like, oh I sprained my ankle near your house. Guess I have to live with you for the next three months!
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@nekoronogatari @QuasLacrimas I only ever did the Katakana transcoding but this is a good point. Kojima Shinzō is much spicier.
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@QuasLacrimas If you move to Japan you can pick a fun assortment of Japanese words that vaguely and indirectly allude to your name
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No, a real name refers to a point in a semantic field with many different local realizations, and any realization of your name that is culturally relevant validly refers to you. As you move from region to region, you should accept local pronunciations and nicknames for your name with grace. If your name has no standard local pronunciation you need to pick a similar-sounding nickname, or accept that no one remembers your name with good humor.
Kay🩷💜💙@agiftfromhildy
Fun fact: the “correct” way to pronounce someone’s name is however the fuck they told you to pronounce it.
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@DARRANFOSTER7 @GwydionMW Try reading it again, slowly: “as part of the same liberal reforms”.
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@GwydionMW So gay Russians are the reason why income fell over all of the former USSR. Wow! I have heard some shite over the years but a unbelievably small amount of a population who is gay had a affect on people's income. What a load of crap.
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It's a sad fact that Russians saw their incomes fall and crime spread as part of the same liberal reforms that legalised gays after the Soviet collapse.
Naturally traditional values made a big come-back. The refounded Communists almost won in 1997.
labouraffairsmagazine.com/m-articles-by-…
And it's a general pattern in the Global South. Seen as part of a noxious package. I wrote about this recently: Gay but Sorrowful, last item in labouraffairs.com/2026/04/01/not…
Quetzal@slifante
Ahora que hay traducción global, quiero preguntarle a los rusos: tenéis un gobierno con muchas leyes anti-LGBT y por eso el resto suponemos que Rusia no es un lugar seguro para nosotros. Pero el gobierno y el sentimiento popular no son lo mismo. Cómo es la realidad del dia a dia?
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@LocalBtnMasher For ER specifically, I’d recommend that 1000x more than grinding to get overpowered and facetank everything before tapping out in the final stretch where the game catches up.
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@LocalBtnMasher Realizing I have a skill issue is the most peaceful way to quit a game. I am not ready for it, no fault of the game, hopefully some future day I can come back and be what it needs me to be.
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The problematic subtext to posts like these, is that it implies that games are not allowed to be challenging outright
aisha@spinelessaisha
unironically people going "skill issue" made me drop so many things because it's the most frsutrating non argument people use
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@hndlehndlekyun @kingofthecoastt This seems like it’d extend to work hours too. I’d personally expect a pro gardener to enjoy gardening more than people that do it off the clock.
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@kingofthecoastt Seems tricky to parse how much, but there is definitely some leisure value in the "home hours" activities. Gardening, home maintenance, and cooking are hobbies!
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It is well known that Europeans spend less hours at work than the US. What's less well-known: the vast majority of this gap is offset by their greater hours spent in home production.
Due to high taxes, Europeans in-source many services things that Americans buy in the market.
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@Niflheimm155983 Thinking about it, I’d characterise the haters as anti-pro-natalists. They may be boring standard anti-natalists too, but they’re specifically agitated by it appealing to the wrong tribe on what has become a partisan issue. Cringe either way though.
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@Niflheimm155983 I didn’t realize there was this big hate campaign. I think she looks like a daz default model or something, which has an unfortunate connotation, but the storytelling seems completely fine, idgi.
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I don’t think all these people self reporting with Pragmata are even self-aware. They’ll post a moment and go like “whoa this is really not ok” - not realizing that the only concerning thing is their reaction being anything other than smiling at the cute little girl and moving on
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@QuetzalPhoenix Very easy to make negative interventions. Often quite easy to then remove those interventions for positive results. Nutrition’s a good example too.
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I know the "its not always about race" argument is not very popular here, but I am reading about the massive success in education reform the southern usa is doing and it really feels like the teachers and administration were doing most of the damage
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@Niflheimm155983 Trying to argue that it’s not trying to be a noir because it’s a cartoon is so dumb. It’s obviously pulling on some noir strings. Hyperviolent murder sprees are obviously not very compatible with that.
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Best part of google's AI overview is when I'm making random notes via the browser and it tries to figure out wtf I'm talking about. Yes Google, thank you, this is exactly what I wanted to know. Valuable use of compute.
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@Blue_Gyrfalcon @lymanstoneky Right? I’m not sure what the setting is where motherhood is obvious but you need a name to figure the father.
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@JohanSHolm @lymanstoneky You're talking about one generation, I'm talking iterative generational.
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I think what this position misses is:
1) Kids are gonna have a surname
2) Having the whole household share a surname really is useful for a whole lot of purposes and parents who don't share surnames with their kids often face administrative challenges
3) Making up a new surname for the whole household breaks ties with *both* sides of the family and also most people see it as kinda cringe
4) So it's either his or hers or hyphens
5) Hyphens are fine, many countries do that, but they do make it literally impossible to write your full surname on many documents for many name combos, so you're back at having a name that creates recurrent administrative problems
6) So the lowest-friction solution really is his or hers
7) There's no fundamental reason it has to be his, but either way somebody is gonna give. You can argue it should be the man, but the only argument for that is matriarchy, which is no more compelling than patriarchy.
8) On the other hand the argument for "this is just the convention, don't sweat it too much" is fairly strong
Jill Filipovic@JillFilipovic
I truly hate this argument, which assumes men simply have names but women’s are all somehow men’s. By this logic, it’s not your dad’s name either - it’s his dad’s. And not his either - his dad’s. Your name is actually your name. And yes of course women should have the legal right to change their names in marriage but let’s please not lie to ourselves that marital name-changing isn’t incredibly sexist and a very literal manifestation of patriarchal power. So is patrilineal naming for children, btw. One answer to “but it’s my dad’s name” might be to stop giving children dad’s name for a while.
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@Blue_Gyrfalcon @lymanstoneky If the husband took his wife’s name, the baby would still share a surname with the dad so this doesn’t hold.
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@lymanstoneky The whole point of the man's surname is to indicate the father. No one questions who the mother is for obvious reasons.
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