Thanks for fixing this. The ‘A’ thing in particular multiple times caused me to try to edit comments thinking that I’d omitted a space.
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This sounds like democracy-washing rule by unaccountable “experts”.
>many of the top films by rating are anime
Not sure 4 of the top 100 being anime counts as unexpectedly many.
Not clear to me how to interpret the chart.
FWIW I downvoted this mainly because I thought you were much too quick to dismiss the existing literature on this topic in favour of your personal theories, which is a bit of a bad habit around here.
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This seems mostly fine for anyone who doesn’t engage in political advocacy or activism, but a mild-moderate form of defection against society if you do—because if dragons are real, society should probably do something about that, even if you personally can’t.
edit: I guess dragon-agnosticism is tolerable if you avoid advocating for (and ideally voting for) policies that would be disastrous if dragons do in fact exist.
You describe Sam as going “mask off” with his editorial, but it feels more like mask on to me—I’d guess he went with the nationalist angle because he thinks it will sell, not because it’s his personal highest priority.
they’ve been much more effective at getting their priorities funded than you have been!
Sounds plausible but do you have any numeric evidence for this?
What leads MIRI to believe that this policy of being very outspoken will work better than the expert-recommended policy of being careful what you say?
(Not saying it won’t work, but this post doesn’t seem to say why you think it will).
Great post. I wonder how to determine what is a “reasonable” maximum epsilon to use in the adversarial training. Does performance on normal examples get worse as epsilon increases?
For small round things and holes, maybe it’s related to the digit 0 being small, round, and having a hole, while also being a similar kind of empty/null case as the empty string?
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IIRC the same encounters are present at the macro level—eg which enemies and cards are available. But there’s still a luck element there as one player may choose to go left and the other right, without either direction giving evidence in advance about which has better rewards.
Seconding Slay the Spire, though it might be slightly too easy to win on the first attempt (I did and I’m not a god gamer). An advantage of StS is that you can specify the RNG seed, so you could give everyone the same test.
FTL (another roguelite) on easy difficulty also might work, though it’s realtime with pause which might be tricky for less experienced gamers.
Both of these are games that benefit a lot from thoughtfulness and careful risk management.
Personally I’m enjoying Palworld (playing for “free” on Game Pass) and I doubt it would have kept such a high level of concurrent players/interest even after a few days if it wasn’t fun at all and only a marketing gimmick. It’s a case where the whole of the core gameplay loop is more appealing than you’d think by just looking at the somewhat incongruous collection of parts. (How long the fun lasts is another question).
edit: I’d agree that the CEO may be overstating how much of a “genius” his employees are but I do think the pal designs are pretty good if not especially original. And the post seems to be more about his relief and gratitude at getting a difficult project over the line rather than objective claims.
If you hire UI designers they have to do something to justify their salaries. If the existing UI can’t be easily improved any further, they will instead make it worse.
Also I agree that the above mentioned marginal user thing is significant.
Say that in each case where a Beauty and a Visitor meet each other, a wild Bookmaker appears and offers each of them a chance to bet on what was the outcome of the coinflip. If they have different subjective odds then they will choose to make different bets (depending on the odds offered) and one will be more profitable than the other—so in that sense at least one of them is wrong. Or am I missing something?
I’ve mostly heard people talking about l-theanine as something to complement caffeine rather than to take by itself.
That’s a PR friendly way of saying that it failed to reach PMF.