jtrek

There's an element of self control to sticking to values. I've seen people proclaim like they're going to boycott EA because of various reasons, but then some shiny new game comes out and those values fall.

Maybe they never really had he values in the first place.

This is worth knowing about

Ew. That is certainly unpopular. Teams can't even do read/unread notifications

He should be in a locked, padded, room somewhere

A lot of Linux works out of the box now. If folks started selling preconfigured Linux machines like you can buy for windows, that's all most people need. Valve is following a good strategy

Many people don't want non-whites to get any of these things. They'd rather get nothing themselves than some of them get nice things. They're scumbags

Hah, I had written something specifically about "they took on risk!" and a retort of "are we a slot machine and lotto driven society then?" but didn't polish and post it.

For the latter, I might zero in on "they worked hard, maybe. Now they don't. Should a freeloader get more than someone who works?" to see what happens.

I've found "You work all day and get a small salary. The business owner sits around, and gets a huge payout. Does that seem fair?" is moderately effective.

The other core is "I'd rather die of preventable diseases so long as black people suffer more"

I'm not (intentionally) being rude while knowing that it's ineffective.

I'm saying the people that believe a flashy YouTube video instead of something uncomfortable are being stupid.

The solution will never be to get them to fall on their face and worship logic. Nor will it be to call them idiots to their face. (Even though some people are so fucking stupid and full of worm paste that I want to scream at them, that's not appropriate so it stays inside). The solution, unfortunately, needs to be wrapping facts up in ways that make them feel good. We have to cater to this behavior.

Here's a more concrete example. We do code reviews at work. I could leave a comment that says "Don't sort this list in place. That's going to cause a bug at XYZ". Straight. To the point. I could also leave a comment that says like "hey great work here. And a good call to sort the list! I think you might want to make a copy and sort that so it won't be weird at XYZ. Thanks so much."

The latter is a lot fluffier and a little dishonest (it's clearly not great work), but I have to write more like that. Otherwise people feel bad and whine about it.

I think this is a factor in why people love LLMs so much. They're always getting fluffed.

Right. But that's a stupid strategy that leads people to believing what the flashy YouTube video says about eating horse medicine to cure cancer instead of the grumpy scientist who makes you feel bad.

You're not wrong in describing how people behave. I'm saying that behavior is foolish.

Right. I think winning moves might have to play into people's emotions. Don't tell conservatives that greenhouse gases cause more heat to be trapped. Tell them like ONLY AMERICA CAN DEFEAT PHYSICS AND MOVE INTO THE FUTURE or whatever.