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My new hobby in 2034 is going to be making irl friends, getting in thier private group chat, and then replacing myself with a bot. They’ll never see it coming.

What are these pictures of? A nessie for ants?

Probably if there is some sort of universal intelligence evaluating our actions and decisions, it would turn anyone entertaining this idea into an worm in their next life. The premise that the good fortuned should be passive to suffering, and enable it, out of some misguided moral calculus is absurd. You can’t game the system.

The attrition is slow, but every user lost to Linux is likely lost forever. After a year or so of totally free software, who is going to build a new windows compatible PC, buy a Windows 11 license, and pay for subscription service just to do word processing, or play a few incompatible games?

Windows completely overestimates people’s willingness to throw out their laptop or PC just to get a new OS paintjob. For every person who does it, another one will leave their ecosystem forever.

That’s one way to differentiate yourself from Bing!

This reminds me of a place I rented in rural FL for a year. 350 square feet. However, I had the Sense to install a curtain so you couldn’t see the person inside of the shower.

Good damn it. Don’t give me a reason to like a musk product… Please.

100% prompt engineering was made up by grifters to sell consultations, classes, books, etc.

1. calling it engineering is frankly an affront to anyone who’s gone to an engineering college, or studied technical vocations where engineers are important.

2. In any competitive, expensive field, It is easier to teach a professional to prompt, than a prompter the profession. Same as it is easier to teach a chemical engineer to work Excel, than it is to teach an excel wiz chemical engineering.

3. LLMs with chain of thought reasoning are already making the whole thing irrelevant by promoting themselves. The industry is rapidly replacing the so called, “promt engineers.”

Tldr: just read #3

In some respects, I can see this. Games such as unscrupulous MMOs are often carefully engineered to distort your ability to manage time and money. However, many games are still produced as entertainment products meant to compete on a basis of artistic or entertainment value. The addictive aspect doesn’t come from a manipulative design, but Rather just plain old fun, and in those cases similar arguments could be made about strawberries or books.

I would like to reiterate that there are addictive video games which really do try to manipulate you. Just like how a breakfast cereal might market itself as healthy and balanced while loaded with sugar and deceptive portion sizes, leading to unhealthy habits, a money first video game will contain elements carefully crafted to distort player’s perception and reasoning.

It’s just… All mixed together.

This isn’t necessarily a bad idea, but God is this doll creepy and doesn’t really look all that useful.

Like, elderly people understand the concept of a talking robot. Talking robots have been a staple of tv, movies, and comics forever now. Just make a cute, taking, character modeled after a little portable crt tv or something. Make it conversational and smart. Seems like a no brainer.

How about running a child gambling empire?