alignedchaos
@alignedchaos@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Amazon promotes the shittiest, least honest reviews to the top of most products, though I guess if you know how to hunt for the rough 2-4* ratings you can technically find real reviews too.
- Comment on the agent's argument in the matrix 9 months ago:
“Objective worth” is a bit of an oxymoron, because worth is up to your value judgment.
If you’re questioning the “evolutionary imperative” that organisms want to pass on genes - one fairly human trait is that a lot of us can consciously diverge from that instinct, either fulfilling that need by passing on our legacies socially rather than genetically, or just not looking to pass anything on at all.
Something we have in common with other mammals is we prioritize whatever experience is in front of us. Anyone who’s directly affected by catastrophes and strife will have different beliefs than people who aren’t.
So if objective worth has no neat answer, what’s left?
I’d say it’s interesting to have so many different subjective experiences in one world, with a language-based society able to communicate and share many more varied experiences than most animals. Interesting isn’t inherently good or bad, but if nothing was good nor bad then nothing would be interesting.
So yea. Human life is entertaining. We’ve got that going for us!
P.S. If you’ve ever lived in a city whose infrastructure is strained by overpopulation, you don’t necessarily view declining/shifting populations as a bad thing.
- Comment on Hmmm... 9 months ago:
Their guess sounds really plausible though
- Comment on Dissing car brands is console wars for boomers 9 months ago:
Wait’ll you hear which one came first
- Comment on The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same 10 months ago:
You confused me for a sec, I’ve enjoyed Anodyne Coffee Roasting lots and thought their space is plenty comfortable lol
- Comment on Judo vs Thai Boxing 10 months ago:
Yea that wasn’t meant to downplay the skill required to hang. But relatively speaking, defending with a goal to clinch up takes a ton less effort and risk than pursuing an offensive striking game.
Looking from the other direction, it is incredibly difficult to actually knock someone out who is only defending and waiting to get close to you.
- Comment on Judo vs Thai Boxing 10 months ago:
Yea judoka had no striking game and boxer had no wrestling game. Under these conditions the grappler could just wait out the striker until catching a grapple, then win. This is why the Gracie family pushed UFC in the 90s, because karate-and-boxing-obsessed US audiences were constantly surprised by these matches, and it led to more people signing up for Brazilian Jiu Jitsu!
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 10 months ago:
You can’t ask, because the OP is just part 1 of an ad
- Comment on Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"? 10 months ago:
Did you know making fun can be friendly and fun
- Comment on Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: “Don’t advertise. Go f*** yourself” 11 months ago:
No
- Comment on What the Hell Happened to my Cookies? 1 year ago:
This is my guess too
- Comment on There once was a programmer 1 year ago:
“skimming things like programming blogs and stackoverflow”
Like this commenter claims he doesn’t do?
- Comment on There once was a programmer 1 year ago:
Sometimes there are better methods to implement something, and we can learn from others’ mistakes without having to make them ourselves
- Comment on Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled 1 year ago:
They get called “monitors” a lot
- Comment on OP finds vulnerability where a forum sends you your password in plaintext over email and everyone misses the forest for the trees 1 year ago:
hashed out
heheh
- Comment on Unity boycott begins as devs switch off ads to force a Runtime Fee reversal - Mobilegamer.biz 1 year ago:
Written like someone who wasn’t actually paying attention to the subreddits during that time
- Comment on The cartridge art was always so kickass. You just had to use your imagination quite a bit... 1 year ago:
Last panel inaccurate, games were vibrant and awesome
Just like the ones today that will feel amateurish compared to future immersive games. Give it time