David Romero

I have a theoretical degree in high energy physics

My opinions are my own

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@Genki_JPN I thought Atlus was niche, especially compared to the rest of the list. Good games though

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I’m not an ML engineer but I don’t think it’s going to be easy to teach a model to be good at programming or pattern recognition but selectively blind otherwise. It’s just not going to gestalt in certain situations in such a way that it can’t be convinced to do otherwise because it’s not within its capability otherwise?

A German Shepherd doesn’t have the raw force of a wolf but it coordinates with humans to do things the wolf cannot fathom and can still cripple a human for life or just kill him. Nothing stops it from turning on its master other than its social bonds to him, how it was socialized, and that it feels valued and purposeful. I actually think maybe that would probably hold for AI, too, but that’s going into the weeds.

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That was already very covered in P5 though, wasn’t it? Both rumor (Ren, Ryuji, and Ann especially) this inseparability between your mask and society’s expectations of you because you react to their accusations and your sense of what is unacceptable to accept about yourself if formed in that way

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@Dexerto BK Japan making Persona real

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Water has long been connected to death in both Greek lore, which P3 is drenched in, and in Japanese lore.

Greek: you were ferried by Charon on his boat across the River Styx to the afterlife.

Japanese: souls had to cross Sanzu River to get to the afterlife. Your difficulty was commensurate with how bad a person you were in life.

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@specialrezzie @RowbyYT a kappa

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@kirayhf How do you finish a Persona game in 70 hrs?

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@Calxiyn Making a lot of sense!

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@Calxiyn The collective subconscious will be the Backrooms

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@Grummz wreathed not weathered, autocorrect

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P3 has the MC stave off Thanatos (the death drive, not the character) from dominating humanity at the cost of his life. He becomes its seal. The monument in-trailer is not the seal but close enough that it gets one’s mind running.

P3’s story is weathered with Ancient Greek influence and mimics the rites of the cult of Dionysius where a beautiful youth is selected for his exceptionalism, encouraged to train and test his strength and wits among others, to cavort with women, and then, at the height of his cultivated vitality, slain. The sacrifice of the Bull over the sacrifice of the Lamb.

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@NeonF78746 @DaveShapi The cost of equipment to locally host models is trivial compared to everything else

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Social security wouldn't be in the hole if the money was just put into indices and not moved around for govt pet projects. The rate earned on SS is tiny and the long time horizon on a person cradle-to-grave means that it doesn't really matter for the typical person if the money is invested at any point of the market, bull or bear or accelerated or crash. For the stock market to underperform SS, you'd need to have an apocalyptic, nation-rending event, in which case you aren't getting SS anyway.

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@beffjezos @CIMCAI Did you make an offering to the machine spirits, first?

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You can easily test the idea that affordability drives births by comparing rich and poor countries’ TFR. It obviously isn’t a positive regressor. Humans are animals just like every other creature and behavior is subject to instinctual triggers in the environment. Humans have kids to assist with production on two horizons: short-term (child labor on the farm/factory) and long-term (old-age security and eldercare). We made the short-term illegal with child labor bans and compulsory, standardized schooling - we even invented the novel life-stage of teenage-hood to further separate children from any productive uses. We replaced the long-term with the welfare state: pensions and social insurance mean kids no longer function as retirement plan or community lifeline. Prohibit or substitute out the environmental triggers an animal relies on to breed; they won’t. Human chauvinism blinds us in modernity to this simple fact pattern.

At least in my opinion.

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@CNYYNB @elonmusk I think intelligence hiding makes sense. Being visible means you can be sized up and targeted. The cost to disrupt or destroy something can be magnitudes lower than the cost to build and maintain that thing.

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@egy_ee @Teknium I just went through this. It's not so bad.

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People often just react to things. It’s to be expected.

But, for balance, within the American sphere when discussing geopolitics, Thucydides is talked about with the established power (US) failing operations against smaller powers (Vietnam). Decline is implied in the discussion, at least to Americans. The outcome of the Peloponnesian War was Athena defeat and the end of its empire - to be fair, Athens never recovered. Greece isn’t a factor in today’s geopolitical or economic landscape. Thucydides Trap is a bit of a loaded phrase but it really isn’t anything new.

It is a bit of a bad look to have our newspaper headlines read “Thucydides Trap? What’s that?”

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