Very few traditional game developers have experience designing and controlling gameplay/gamer psychology when the game becomes exposed to the forces of speculators, investors and arbitrageurs who have their own out-of-game incentives that move around the game’s token and NFT prices.
When I worked in machine learning every day, I found a close analogue of this to be very true. A slightly better architecture tended to matter much less than getting better data. Or, at least, once I hit on a reasonable model architecture, I tended to do much better by cleaning and gathering more data than by optimizing the architecture.
Most people do not feel they or their loved ones could die from the climate crisis this month, and so emergency mode is harder to activate and sustain. As Salamon pointed out to me, if we truly accepted we were in a climate emergency, then every day the news would lead with updates about which countries were reducing their emissions the fastest,... See more
America's pay cycle is broken. The typical worker is paid on a biweekly basis. While this is the standard, it makes little sense. Why shouldn't employees get paid for the work they do each day? The current setup effectively gives companies an interest-free loan at the expense of workers.