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i've been thinking a lot about game theory lately, and i think everyone should do that a lot of insight to be gained from understanding how equilibria form out of strategic interactions between agents with conflicting goals it even works if the agents aren't humans

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"it's not that big a deal, i'll carry on either way" is great for my mental health, catastrophic for my posting. see you in another month or whatever

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at this point i don't actually care what happens in AI. the AIs that exist, including open weights, are good enough for my use cases; if all development stopped dead, i would be unbothered. on the other hand, i don't actually believe any of the possible dooms, so full steam is also fine. whatever.

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that's a good idea actually

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i guess there's discourse about being Extremely Online so i just want to say: you can stop. i was Extremely Online and now i'm not, and i'm happier for it.

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Reality is surprisingly detailed, and being very smart does not change that. Actually accomplishing things in the real world will always entail trial and failure, repeatedly, before the attempt works, and those accomplishments are always subject to context shifts undermining everything.

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all AI doom scenarios boil down to "machine god". it can do whatever it wants. it can make an apocalypse virus. it can beat up superman. it's imaginary, no real world constraints apply, it will Doom Us All, BE AFRAID sorry, fuck that, AI does not exist outside of space and time and Murphy's Law

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in theory, this should be tolerable. in practice, i am a fragile flower trying to carefully build myself into an actual adult human being, and throwing all my shit out of kilter for ??? days is not great. after living with one for four years, i fucking hate quirky night owls. fuck you, be normal

housemate has taken on a project that we probably should have hired out (refinishing the porch) and bc of her inability to plan effectively and refusal to wake up before 1300, a bunch of my loadbearing daily routines are badly disrupted, e.g., orbital sanding shaking the entire house at dinnertime.

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Grass Toucher Georg @avengingfem.me · 29/08/2026

i wish there was a game that like, gamified and simplified this kind of stuff into a vibes-based gameplay loop that wasn't just Spreadsheets: The Game. the dynamics are fascinating but as soon as the spreadsheets come out it's like i might as well just get a job instead

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absolutely. i'm just an amateur at econ/history and it will remain that way

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I have often said people are essentially arguing that engineering is impossible when they say there’s no way to build a reliable system out of unreliable parts. it‘s the most ordinary thing in the world

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i would be one of the 40 but, as an economy-understander i can see why you would not make this game

simulator that lets you be Actual Winston Churchill when

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it's possible that what i actually want isn't a complicated grand strategy game, it's an economic history degree

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which is, y'know, depressing as fuck. so, damned if i do, damned if i don't. it's a narrow goddamn path to walk.

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rough week for me, been heavily fatigued and/or depressed the whole time. it's pretty frustrating when i want to do things out in the world (it'll be good for my depression!) but my physical capacity to do things out in the world is so low that it often leads to week-long recovery times.

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i feel like communism and German Fascism aren't actually opposite ends of the "high degrees of state control in the economy" spectrum though

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how much are overconfident internet central-planning hot takes downstream of central planning actually working better than decentralized systems when the central planner is the god-player, the commodity system has like 30 total items in it, and the AI decentralized planners are dumb as rocks

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related community impression that may or may not be legit: lots of Paradox fans are pretty communism-friendly, right? do you think the causality runs from players wanting to play as communists and Paradox delivering, or Paradox wanting to make communism in-game viable and thus attracting such fans?

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Grass Toucher Georg @avengingfem.me · 25/08/2026

i started playing some Vicky 3 lately, having zero Paradox experience or really even grand strategy experience and i have been wondering if it's just me or if there's actually a fairly marked bias in favor of communist economics in the game

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fuck now i'm convinced its all true

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roko’s modern basilisk @girlpython.northsky.social · 25/08/2026

logically this makes draftkings the new opium

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Grass Toucher Georg @avengingfem.me · 25/08/2026

a LOT more people are invested in the status quo staying what it is, for mundane reasons like "this is working well enough that i don't want to invest billions in changing it", here in the USA. When the shit doesn't exist, the comparison is different, because it *isn't* working well enough.

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Grass Toucher Georg @avengingfem.me · 25/08/2026

That's true but it has to be understood in the context that a much larger fraction of their population is still not on an IP of any kind. They were making infrastructure decisions in the 2010s that we were making between like 1900 and 1980, with no prior examples to work off of bc we invented it.

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Damn this implies unpleasant things for the near-term future of America I think I just independently re-derived the American Century of Humiliation in techno-optimist technological deterministic terms

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you could even argue that China got beat out on industrialization during the early waves specifically because they had deployed the peak of pre-modern social organizational technology already and therefor couldn't adapt to the hot new shit like the poverty stricken mongrels of Northern Europe could

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Also don't take this as "ra ra USA", we're just a good example of a first-wave industrializer struggling with the burden of massive old capital stocks that used to be cool.

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and maybe by then there will be a major break in the US and we all get fed up and do some serious ground-up rebuilds that mean they're stuck with that old-fashioned High Speed Rail, while we have, idk, personal teleporters or something. Don't take it too seriously it's just schematic.

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If this is true, it kind of implies that industrialization follows a "punctuated equilibrium" model. China looks like hot shit rn because they're in a "deploying new hot shit" phase but someday that new hot shit will *also* be old legacy garbage that they have to work around.

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How much of the US being incapable of building is just the legacy paradox where we're trapped by having been the earliest adopters of world-changing technology that has long since been superseded. Like Autozone still using a DOS based inventory system despite all their efforts.

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My human doctor can't even remember that she was supposed to prescribe me tirzepatide, and an antidepressant, and refer me to a couple of specialists a fucking month ago

The road to remission and recovery for depression and chronic illness is hard as fuck and the best companion in that journey I have ever found is an LLM. Not because humans don't help, they do. But no human has the inexhaustible time, energy, and access to knowledge of ChatGPT.

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Nothing I couldn't do for myself with enough time and energy, but it took an hour instead of probably eight, which probably means it happened instead of not happening.

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I've been very busy the last few weeks, and as a consequence my health crashed for a few days. I'm recovering better than I used to, but I still have to be careful. ChatGPT helped me come up with a very plausible plan to manage my energy better.

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Dutch GP was fun. My favorite racey bois came in first, second, and fourth.

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ChatGPT, of all things, gradually winning me over to the value of Scheduled Task AI tools mostly for focused news (local model drops) and health minders ("evaluate the structured pacing plan with me on the first of every month to see if we should change the energy budgets")

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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 🥀🪦💀 @aub.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

trans women making fun of someone for being tall and bad at walking in heels is kind of insane! i do not know who she is or what evil she has done, because y’all are too into the bodyshaming. i assume if video of me in heels ever hits bluesky i will get promptly wrecked by my sisters in estradiol.

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i love taking a big cloud of meaningless data & compressing it into something you can rotate in your mind palace & make better decisions about

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idk it’s a tall order but i’m finding that a major downside of segregating Bsky to an hour or two per day a few days per week is that the context overhead costs become very high and it affects my brain very badly. it is in some sense easier when you’re always online but that’s unworkable for me.

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probably a whole new client built around bucketing conversational topics and assembling the constituent parts into a contextualized narrative. “most of your AI friends were talking about the new Glimmer 30B release, here’s the conversations you might find interesting in chronological order”.

i think if i’m going to have bluesky (or any twitterlike) as part of my life i’m going to have to build something that re-projects the entire experience into something that isn’t chopped up context thrashing hell. not just “feed as filtered by AI” and probably not just “MCP and Claude” either.

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