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tbh I'm kinda amazed kongregate is still around. they used to be cooler, had this big-ass ant logo, now it looks like generic mobile game slop
and flash used to work
and I used to not have arthritis
and the sky was bluer
god I'm unc
but yeah
kongregate!!!! i have so many memories of that site. good times. itchio just isn’t the same i fear.
"one that isn't the master", sorry
thanks, i knew i was the best.
banger. but isn't it usually the one that isn't the student who becomes enlightened?
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thread of interesting links
"make no mistakes" is the punchline of our time. what are the punchlines of times past?
the opposite (of being perceived as bad): the point is that its a totally mundane thing that nonetheless causes a negative update. so once you're trapped in the basin more and more things "seem like" that thing. like a borges story, perchance.
and then the apps went SPWA all over the place
getting into opus magnum. excellent blogpost here
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scott alexander concept: basically a negative polarization feedback loop (“i hate this bitch” -> “oh look this bitch is eating crackers” -> “i hate them even more”) so a bad impression gets stuck.
loved it. i will say that when you select for a bunch of kids that are the absolute best at winning mostly pointless elaborate selection processes they end up recreating it over and over again. but the overall strength of the faculty is incredible and you can go your own way
remixing was awesome! thank you for these thoughts they're very helpful. "a kid will just plug away with an inefficient interface"... seems important, for kids pure efficiency is probably not the best dimension to optimize on but rather some combo of attention-retaining and intuitive
like, I remember Scratch being *the* canonical way to teach coding to ~elementary school aged kids in pretty recently memory. but to me, Scratch's model of drag-and-drop blocks does not seem obviously optimal from first principles. why did we converge on this solution? were we correct to?
are there any good retrospectives on block-based coding ala scratch in the llm age of coding. were they effective? are they? why did we settle on this modality in particular?
unschooling curriculum where you assign a kid a different hyperambitious megawebsite every year to completely absorb
a beautiful splash of Claude Orange. what a majestic beast.
feel the same way about the shops @ yale but with a kind of theoretic nostalgia - surely things had to have been better before, even if i was not there to see it.
to be one out of a series of posters haphazardly strewn on a wall with some tasteful bloodstains in a horror game location
committing to the bit as optical illusion. cf predictive processing bitch eating crackers, control theory
marxists.org is famous for being an excellent library: you can be reasonably confident that almost ~anything published by Marx/Engels is on there + others. what else is like this? which authors, in the public domain, have good archival websites?
the existence of "language games" implies a natural economic endpoint of language gacha. pulling on the phomeme banner. gotta wait for your favorite vowel's special rate up
omg they're switching
from Yeats, Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea
