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If you’re going to take a thought experiment seriously, you have to be willing to follow the implications, even if they lead in an uncomfortable direc

these days, if you can’t see the noose of a politically charged security apparatus wrapping around previously-abundant artificial intelligence, I’m no

The psychiatrist and neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist identified precisely this pattern in patients with right hemisphere brain damage. They remain art

I often wonder why musicians don’t seem more alarmed by the rise of these songwriting generators. But perhaps I am hopelessly out of touch with how th

People are the most engaged in an activity when they feel like they are highly skilled at it, and are using that skill to confront a great challenge.

All human beings have the instinct to learn, discover and experiment. Fun comes when you can provide situations where they can practice the above.

My take on it is that fun comes from interacting with a system with enough depth for interesting stuff to emerge - maybe even things that will surpris

The case board, inspired by HBO show True Detective, originally featured free placement of clues and gated progress until players found a specific ans

"Why make the player watch something when they can do it? If possible, we shouldn't rely on narrative bookending to tell the bulk of the narrative," W

"We have a lot of exposition in this game and we didn't want the player locked into these increasingly repetitive gameplay conversations," Maloney exp

"Wrong answers can be fun as long as you keep the wrong answer interesting enough that there is still some value for the player," Wasselin said. "Lett

The fediverse is boring! The trade-off for the freedom that the fediverse offers comes at the cost of excitement and engagement. Its decentralized nat

As we embrace this offline renaissance, we have an opportunity to redefine the real world and create an era where personal connections thrive, leaving

With nothing more than an idea and a passion for making things happen, I started a new group on meetup.com called We Make the Internet, and began prom

No matter how many people come over for dinner, you’re only going to be able to engage with a few. And no matter how big the crowd in the arena, the

Discord's iOS and Android apps are built using React Native [1]. This enables business logic to be shared with the desktop and web clients, as well as

In my experience React Native has definitely "lost its luster", primarily because it occupies a bit of a weird middle ground that nobody wants:1. If y

2,000,000 installs acquires a minimum of $45,000 in fees, even if you don't make any moneyThat's up from $0 USD.

A huge majority of Apple's revenue (from IAP) came from gaming purchases. This would continue to be the case. A gaming app would have ads + options fo

As all of this unfolded, I spoke twice with Substack’s co-founders. And while they asked that those conversations be off the record, my understanding

But until Substack makes it clear that it will take proactive steps to remove hate speech and extremism, the current size of the problem isn’t relevan

OK fine, but aren’t calls to ban Nazis a slippery slope? If Substack caves in here, there will be no end to what people like you call for them to remo

Substack co-founder, Hamish McKenzie, implied that his company’s business model would largely obviate the need for content moderation. “We give commun

The KIM approach starts with an extensive analysis of traffic flows and bottlenecks. At the intersection of Vrijheidslaan – Amsteldijk it turned that

When startups start taking off, the founders usually can't tell what's changed. It's some combination of all the random things they did to make it ta

Inkarnate - Create Fantasy Maps Online

I have never thought so much, existed so much, lived so much, been so much myself, if I may venture to use the phrase, as in the journeys which I have

social media will never be the impetus for real social change. He compared Twitter unfavorably to the civil rights movement. The Woolworth’s lunch cou

It's hard to save the world voluntarily when others are destroying it full-time.

What if we re-embraced activism as the intentional acts carried out by each generation to guide us from legacy narratives to new challenger narratives

Once you recognize yourself as part of the river, now you realize you’re responsible for the river as a whole.”

Unlike a calculator that can solve a limited number of operations, AGI can generalize, learn and comprehend.In their letter to the board, researchers

"According to people familiar with the board's thinking, members had grown so untrusting of Altman that they felt it necessary to double-check nearly

via shawn smucker <3 Be sure to use AI when making your next, I don’t know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to co

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