Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
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De overgang van zomertijd naar wintertijd is een mooi moment om aardlekschakelaars te testen.
Aardlekschakelaars kunnen levens redden.
Wanneer heb jij je aardlekschakelaars voor het laatst getest?
(Relatedly: consider why this same standard of evidence never seems to be expected from regressive policies)
Whenever you see 'promising results' about some kind of 'trial' of a more progressive policy around work or money, you should take a moment to think about whether it's actually a new finding.
The vast majority of these 'trials' are re-testing things that were already shown decades ago, we already *know* that it works, and the only reason it hasn't become policy yet is politicians and their exploitative interests. There hasn't been a genuine 'scientific debate' about it for a long time.
A good question to ask is "okay, so when will this actually be implemented?", but perhaps a better question to ask is "why isn't it already?"
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Fascinating article about the as yet unpredictable changes AI brings to complex knowledge work. Here the case of radiology. The early predictions of displacement of humans by machines have not come to pass (though, as always, they have simply been pushed into the future).
For me, this is the most interesting part, and one that I think applies quite generally.
"Still, I have reservations about AI in radiology, particularly when it comes to education. One of the main promises of AI is that it will handle the “easy” scans, freeing radiologists to concentrate on the “harder” stuff. I bristle at this forecast, since the “easy” cases are only so after we read thousands of them during our training—and for me they’re still not so easy! The only reason my mentors are able to interpret more advanced imaging is that they have an immense grounding in these fundamentals."
If you automate the easy stuff, it's much harder to gain experience necessary to do the harder stuff, This applies to any craft and all creative/knowledge work as an important element of craft to it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/187203/ai-radiology-geoffrey-hinton-nobel-prediction
In hindsight it shouldn't have been that surprising, but I was quite surprised a few years ago to learn that a company will just ship you a pallet of something if you pay for a pallet of something, even if you're just some rando ordering stuff off the web and you're clearly not a business (and it also ended up being cheaper than buying half that quantity as loose items)
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@ben_hr - people who work within systems rarely recognise the issues with them, because it starts to raise questions about how they can be comfortable with what they/their colleagues are doing.
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please stop using brave browser.
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@henry I keep this cartoon on my desktop, for those times when my brain is beating me up for stumbling. Some days are hard...sheesh, some months are hard, and sometimes our brain isn't as helpful giving us a hand up when we trip as we might like.
But, we get back up. That's the important bit. We get back up. 
tangent, re: workers and resources
Tangentially, by this point I should probably just buy the entire back catalog of what Hooded Horse has published, because lately every time I'm like "huh this is a surprisingly different and neat game" they seem to be the publisher, and they definitely seem to be doing something right
workers and resources, game design (4)
(Also, I quite like that you can just turn off the 'police and crime' aspect. It's doing slightly better than most games at modelling it as a preventable issue with causes rather than some fact of life, but I still don't like the implementation well enough, and here I can just choose to disable it entirely. Like you can do with surprisingly many of the mechanics.)
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Anyway, this still isn't the anarchist city builder that I would like to see (which, admittedly, I wasn't expecting it to be to begin with), but I'm finding it much easier to play this game the way I would want to play a city builder, than just about every other city builder I've tried. And I've been looking for a decade by this point.
Also goddamn, the road/track building system is *lightyears* ahead of that in Cities Skylines. Take note, Colossal Order, this is how you do this.
workers and resources, game design (2)
To expand on the 'policy freedom' a bit: you absolutely *can* play this game in an authoritarian way, it definitely has the mechanics in place. But you can also just... not do that, and still have a perfectly viable city, unlike most capitalist city builders where if you don't buy into the "expand wealth at any cost" gameplay loop, that's basically a guaranteed path to defeat.
The genre of city builders, colony builders, etc. is pretty universally problematic in that they're essentially always built around 'god game mechanics' where you are in some way the ultimate arbiter of whatever happens in the world, regardlesss of the political window dressing that it gets, so it's refreshing to see a city builder game that at least somewhat diverts from this path, and where you sometimes genuinely feel like "I will just have to deal with this, this isn't really under my control", with your task more being that of a caretaker than of a ruler.
There are more games that do this, but they're usually not 'modern' city builders.
workers and resources, game design
Recently been fascinated by Workers and Resources for two very different reasons:
1. It breaks *so many* assumptions about how city builders 'should' work, and does so incredibly well.
2. I had avoided it for a long time, expected it to be designed as a very authoritarian game, but to my surprise it turns out to be much less authoritarian in structure than most capitalism-oriented city builders, and gives you a lot more 'policy freedom' (despite what the theme implies).
It's not *quite* where I would want the genre to be (for both gameplay and political reasons) but goddamn does it get surprisingly close.
Tired: learning how neurotypicals communicate so you can live in their society.
Wired: learning how neurotypicals communicate so you can make them feel *really* uncomfortable when they're being shitty.
Nee he... de ghost kitchens zijn nu blijkbaar in Nederland ook in opmars. Uitgebaat door Johnny's Burger Co in ieder geval.
"Considering more general distribution models is a good direction for future work"
Ah yes, the "we couldn't be bothered with this" comment in academese
Are there any exciting developments in explicitly anti-capitalist P2P systems lately?
(I know about Veilid)
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every adhd thread is like
0: shitpost about topic
1: pondering something serious about the topic
2: realizing something they’re unsure or confused about
3: excitedly quoting the wikipedia page with surprising things they are learning
4: (10 minutes later) book report summarizing the last 10 years of research on the topic
(Sidenote, if you've *published* queer hopepunk books, please also tell me!)
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
