gothgirl420666

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gothgirl420666 Mar 12, 2014, 7:46 PM
2 points
in reply to: lincolnquirk’s comment on: Open thread, 11-17 March 2014
I know, I know, I know. I know all of this rationally. I just can’t make my brain realize this. All the small ideas I come up with fail to motivate me even a little bit. My current plan is to wait for my current unrealistically big project to inevitably fall apart and then hopefully my brain will finally get the message.

gothgirl420666 Mar 12, 2014, 7:43 PM
−1 points
in reply to: Viliam_Bur’s comment on: Open thread, 11-17 March 2014
This is sort of what I am doing right now, I’m working with two people who are focusing on the programming side of a game while I’m essentially designing it, only it’s an unrealistically big project and the other two people don’t seem to grasp the idea that if you want to make something it won’t magically make itself and you actually have to push yourself to work on it.

I realize that I could make a dumb two-week iPhone game if I wanted, only this doesn’t really appeal to me at all, to the point where I don’t think I could find the motivation to do it. I think what I will do is I will probably wait for the current big project to eventually fall apart, work on a medium sized one until it falls apart, at which point my brain will realize that I actually need to start small.

gothgirl420666 Mar 12, 2014, 6:13 AM
4 points
in reply to: maia’s comment on: Open thread, 11-17 March 2014

Also, you may have heard this before, but the video game industry for programmers is kind of a shitshow, because lots of people want to do it, enough so that they’re willing to be paid less and endure crappy conditions. Being an indie developer might be a better bet, if you can make it work; I have no idea what the odds of success there are.

I did not know that, thanks.

Anyway, I would rather be involved on the artistic side, but I don’t really know anything about that career path either, so.… ¯|_(ツ)_/¯

gothgirl420666 Mar 12, 2014, 6:11 AM
2 points
in reply to: Lumifer’s comment on: Open thread, 11-17 March 2014
Can you elaborate on this? Where does “the code you’ve written” come from? Do you produce it in school projects? Or is it from jobs you might take on the side? Are you expected to be passionate enough about programming to have a bunch of code that you wrote for fun and practice lying around? Is it a mix of all three? What should I be doing with my time?

gothgirl420666 Mar 12, 2014, 6:09 AM
0 points
in reply to: kalium’s comment on: Open thread, 11-17 March 2014
Thanks for the advice, but it doesn’t work that way. The problem is that, for some indiscernible reason, in order to get the art degree I need to take 48 credits in the school of arts and sciences (i.e. an entire year and a half). So it would be much easier to have a second major in the arts and sciences (e.g. math or economics) instead of the school of engineering.

gothgirl420666 Mar 12, 2014, 6:06 AM
2 points
in reply to: PECOS-9’s comment on: Open thread, 11-17 March 2014
Yeah, I am already working on my own games. I worked on one for two hours earlier today.

My eternal problem is that I can only think big. When I was a little kid I would constantly envision these 1000-page epics I was going to write, type about seven pages or so, and then get bored and start a new project the next week. I constantly try to come up with ideas for small, fun little games that I could realistically make by myself in a few months but I can never come up with anything that appeals to me even a little. My current project seems like it will take a few years to complete and it will in all probability never see the light of day since I have never actually completed a game before. This is the most irrational habit I have and I hate it but I don’t know how to stop.

EDIT: I typed this out in the hopes that somehow the act of writing it down and LW users commenting on it would kick my brain into realizing how irrational it was being, and it worked exactly as planned. I will start working on a small project starting tomorrow. Thanks guys.

gothgirl420666 Mar 12, 2014, 2:01 AM
9 points
on: Open thread, 11-17 March 2014
Request for some career advice:

I am planning on pursuing computer science as a double major (along with art). I’m doing this mainly for practical reasons—right now I feel like I don’t really care about money and would rather enjoy my life than be upper-class, but I want to have an option available in case these preferences change. I enjoyed CS classes in high school, but since coming to college, I have found CS classes, while not profoundly unpleasant, to basically be a chore. In addition to this, my university is making it needlessly difficult for me to choose CS as a second major. This has lead me to rethink—is CS really worth it? After researching it a bit, it seems like CS genuinely is worth it. From what I hear, programming jobs pay very well, are easy to find, have good working conditions, and seem to relatively easily facilitate a 4-hour-workweek lifestyle, should one choose to pursue it. No other career path seems to be able to boast this.

Am I correct in thinking this? Is a computer science degree worth it even if it means a lot of drudgery during college? Conventional wisdom seems to be no—“don’t try to major in something you don’t enjoy” is something I’ve heard a few times. But that seems kind of idealistic.

The alternatives would be econ or math, both of which I am fairly unfamiliar with and find sort of interesting but don’t exactly have a passion for.

For reference, my current preferred careers are, in order:
1. something with video games (Lifelong Dream is to be in that hideo kojima or satoshi tajiri role where I am the man with the vision in charge but I don’t even really know how you work your way up to that position?)
2. something with art or illustration where i can be creative
3. something with graphic design where i am less creative and am doing something boring like designing logos for people or whatever
4. some sort of programming thing

gothgirl420666 Mar 11, 2014, 7:58 PM
5 points
on: On not getting a job as an option
This has been one of my dreams for forever. I remember playing Okami and encountering a “wandering artist ” character who travels the world and interprets what he sees in the form of art, and thinking to myself “wow, that is exactly what I want to do”.

But it seems like more of a thing to do for a few years and then go back into the workforce than something to do for the rest of your life. For starters, it would probably get tiring. Secondly, it would be a lot easier and less terrifying if you saved up a bunch of money in preparation for this adventure, to use when absolutely necessary, rather than literally have no means of income and be surviving on a day-to-day basis.

I wonder what the impractical or risky aspects of this are. It seems like if you have living relatives available to bail you out if you get in too deep then there aren’t too much, but there are probably some that I am forgetting. Healthcare? Do employers care if you have a five-year gap in your resume? What else? Is there a reason why I shouldn’t do this a few years after I graduate college?

gothgirl420666 Feb 22, 2014, 5:03 PM
0 points
in reply to: Richard_Kennaway’s comment on: Is love a good idea?
Huh?

gothgirl420666 Jan 28, 2014, 11:24 PM
1 point
in reply to: satt’s comment on: New Year’s Prediction Thread (2014)
A 138 average doesn’t seem far-fetched at all to me. A little bit of self-serving bias is inevitable, but I highly doubt the real average is e.g. in the 120s. This random website I found says that the average IQ of an Ivy League student is 142. I go to a school that isn’t as good as most Ivys but is better than some of them. I would guess the average IQ of a student here is 135-ish. The average LW poster seems much, much smarter to me than the average person at my school.

gothgirl420666 Jan 27, 2014, 11:24 PM
1 point
on: Are you a virtue ethicist at heart?

However, I posit that most of us intuitively use virtue ethics, and not deontology or consequentialism. In other words, when judging one’s actions we intuitively value the person’s motivations over the rules they follow or the consequences of said actions.

Consequentialism has nothing to do with how to judge someone else’s actions. If I am trying to poison my friend, but by some miracle the poison doesn’t kill him and instead manages to cure his arthritis, then I am still a bad person. Virtue ethics seems like a rational framework to judge other people by, perhaps tautologically.

gothgirl420666 Jan 27, 2014, 11:18 PM
2 points
on: How to become a PC?
I find that human beings are motivated more by social benefits than rational self-interest. If it is possible given your age/gender/current size, focus on getting a sexy body and on how cool and attractive it will make you to the people around you. If you can successfully obtain that goal, which is slightly adjacent to the goal of being healthy, you will already have experience maintaining the habits of exercise and watching what you eat, and you’ll be well equipped to continue to do as such for as long as you desire.

This has worked for me pretty well for six months. I’m addicted to working out.

gothgirl420666 Jan 25, 2014, 11:06 PM
3 points
in reply to: Stabilizer’s comment on: Open thread, January 25- February 1
Sorry, I communicated poorly. I meant [introducting] lack of sloppiness into my work. That’s not what I meant. I’m too sloppy.

gothgirl420666 Jan 25, 2014, 10:58 PM
4 points
in reply to: ChristianKl’s comment on: Open thread, January 25- February 1

I would guess that you try to exert too much control. The kind of “sloppiness” that’s useful for creativity is about letting things go.

I’m already good at this part of creativity, but precision is also pretty important. Right now I’m working on a project where I have to trace in pen (can’t erase, flaws are obvious) photographs that I took. Letting things go won’t help here.

Meditation might help.

I already do meditate.

As you are female

I’m not, sorry.

gothgirl420666 Jan 25, 2014, 6:44 PM
4 points
on: Open thread, January 25- February 1
I’m in art school and I have a big problem with precision and lack of “sloppiness” in my work. I’m sort of hesitant to try to improve in this area, however, because I suspect it reflects some sort of biological limit—maybe the size of some area in the cerebellum or something, I don’t know. Am I right in thinking this?

gothgirl420666 Jan 23, 2014, 7:21 AM
0 points
in reply to: ialdabaoth’s comment on: Open Thread for January 17 − 23 2014
Dude, this is not worth stressing about. Write what you want and let people react how they will. Many of Eliezer’s posts are heavily downvoted.

Dangers of steelmanning / principle of charity

gothgirl420666Jan 16, 2014, 6:35 AM

149 points

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gothgirl420666 Jan 16, 2014, 6:30 AM
1 point
in reply to: Eliezer Yudkowsky’s comment on: Dangers of steelmanning / principle of charity
Uh, I don’t really know how it works that well, this is only the second post I’ve written. I can’t think of a reason not to.

gothgirl420666 Jan 14, 2014, 10:22 PM
1 point
in reply to: wadavis’s comment on: Open Thread for January 8 − 16 2014
Thanks. I’m a college student so the obvious choice is to be a tour guide, but for some reason this is a really popular job and it’s hard to get even though you don’t get paid? Maybe I could find some sort of club that would be good for this purpose.

Decide what you want to say then say it! You will use more precise language and less filler.

I’ve tried to do this but it’s a lot easier said than done. Maybe I’ll have to redouble my efforts.

EDIT: What culture are you from? The idea of a wait culture sounds very alien to me outside of classroom discussions.

gothgirl420666 Jan 14, 2014, 4:33 PM
−1 points
in reply to: Omid’s comment on: Open Thread for January 8 − 16 2014
Thanks

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Dangers of steelmanning / principle of charity