Again, we’re still in that “reading every over sentence” mode. For example, I say “hyper-advanced automation” and you reply claiming that “Good enough” automation is perfectly achievable. Yes. I know. I never said it wasn’t. I never said anything about good enough automation at all. And that kind of thing goes on throughout your response here.

By all means continue your conversation with whoever you think is making all these arguments, but they bare little resemblance to anything I’m saying, so there’s really no point in my responding any further.

It’s very clear that at this point, insofar as there is any logic at all to the decision making of people investing in Tesla (and there’s very little evidence of that), they’re evaluating it as a software company, not a car company.

I mean, I could point you to a few economics journalists who would argue otherwise. Ed Zitron’s been screaming about the downfall of AI for the last two years straight.

I feel like you’re only reading every other sentence of what I say. In this instance, you seem to have fixated on this part, but sailed right past the part where I said that there’s zero evidence that anyone can actually produce hyper-advanced automation. I never argued that it was a rational decision to go all in on this possibility, and that’s entirely clear from my previous comments.

Ed Zitron is completely correct, but he’s also making exactly the same argument I am; that these people cannot actually achieve the technological revolution they are promising. That doesn’t change the fact that, if their wish granting genie was real, it would basically have unlimited upside. The problem is not how they’re pricing the outcome, the problem is how they’re evaluating the probability of achieving the outcome.

unless you’re just hand-waving and predicting 10-20x growth over the next decade.

That’s exactly what they’re doing.

The problem is that hyper-advanced automation is essentially unpriceable. When your potential market penetration is “replace all human labour” your profit potential is infinite.

The real is issue is not how they’re pricing the potential upside, its that none of these companies have remotely demonstrated that they have the ability to actually produce that upside. It’s an entire industry shilling a fantasy on the back of some very impressive sales demos.

Turns out Star Trek was right again.

It’s very clear that at this point, insofar as there is any logic at all to the decision making of people investing in Tesla (and there’s very little evidence of that), they’re evaluating it as a software company, not a car company.

This seems to be largely based on the notion that Tesla is the world leader in self-driving, and poised to become the world leader in other areas of automation. And that would, admittedly, mostly justify their very high share price, if there was literally any evidence it was true. Of course, what they actually have is a self-driving system that is only number one in fatalities caused, and a bunch of faked demos of robots made using low paid remote operators.

Tesla is easily the single best demonstration of how fucked our economic system really is. That a company can so blatantly lie, over and over, about what their products can actually do, and somehow continue to see their share price increase tells you everything you need to know about how utterly fictitious the entire notion of the stock market is.

A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.

Well… Shit… That’s basically impossible to answer. How am I supposed to pick just one character from all of DS9?

OK, fine, three way tie between Miles, Dax and Garak, and that’s the best you’re gonna get.

I just don’t understand why they have to go shoving it in everyone’s faces like this. Don’t they know children could see these pictures?

Yeah, this is the thing I’ve never understood about the “AI will fix climate change” BS. Like, what, the AI owned by billionaires is gonna say “Step one, get rid of capitalism” and the billionaires are gonna be like “Well if the AI said it…”?

Literally all it can do is tell us what we already know.

My wife and I played Haven back before we got married, and never got around to finishing it. Really ought to dust that game off again. Playing it as a couple was really fun, and actually helped us to learn things about each other.

Fucking average game of commander looks like fortnite now. What’s that, you’re blocking my Abaddon the Despoiler with your Optimus Prime equipped with a Sonic Screwdriver and Cloud’s Buster Sword? Cool, miss when this game had a recognizable theme.

You know what’s wild? The answer that immediately comes to mind is Warframe.

Genuinely, I’m not remotely joking, Warframe has some of the best video games romance I’ve ever encountered.

Two things really stand out to me about the conversations in Warframe.

First, the things they learn about you are often just as important as the things you learn about them. The article talks about the process of two people figuring out how they fit into each other’s lives, and that’s exactly what you get with Warframe. You need to actually show that you can be someone they can love, as well as simply showing interest in them.

Secondly, and I think maybe more importantly; most of the conversations in Warframe don’t feel “important.” They all are. But most of them are about comparatively trivial things. A lot of it is literally just people sharing shower thoughts, or jokes, or talking about dumb shit, or getting things off their brains. But how you handle those interactions matters just as much, if not more, than the heavy stuff.

Also, the way the characters interact feels distinct and different. Amir, the most obvious case of ADHD in the universe, writes five messages for every one of yours (these conversations all happen through “Not MSN Messenger”), and most of the time what he needs is for you to just listen while he unloads all the chaotic shit in his brain. Eleanor, the journalist, writes long, carefully formed sentences with correct punctuation and grammar. She poses questions, prods and pries, tries to dig secrets out of you. Aoi will sometimes just send you a string of emojis, and will be delighted if you reply the same way. She likes to be silly, but more importantly she needs to just know that you’re there and you cared enough to reply. It’s the written equivalent of squeezing someone’s hand. Some characters will pester you, others are more likely to wait for you to talk first. There’s a unique dynamic with each of them.

Yeah, that’s a way too pointed metaphor for the state of the world.

Check the article first. It’s not just SSNs that potentially got compromised.

I don’t think this remotely qualifies as a clickbait headline. The exact claim, word for word, is made by a sufficiently credible expert that they’re citing in the article.

I’m not saying you can’t disagree with the expert. By all means, make your case. But don’t call it clickbait. This is absolutely valid reporting. Your disagreement is with the person they’re reporting on, not the people doing the reporting.

You’re forgetting another scenario: when you’re behind cover.

That would fall under “When you’re not in immediate danger.” And again, that’s not a scenario where you’re going to drop the mag. You can freely retain it for later. That’s what it comes down to; if you’ve got time to retain the mag, you retain the mag. If you’re in a situation where retaining the mag would cost time you don’t have, you are de facto also in a situation where you’re not swapping a partial.

Also, I never specified whether the person is under fire

No, but you replied to a comment where I did.

Generally speaking you’re not dropping a partially full mag under fire. You put those bullets down range, then you drop the mag for a fresh one when it’s empty.

The only time you swap partials is if the shooting is over, at least temporarily. At that point everyone switches out to a fresh mag, and yes, retains the partial, because you’re not doing a combat reload at that point (this is also when you check yourself and each other for injuries).

Awesome, thank you for your diligent detective work.

Also, yeah, OK, dig that character concept. Basically fantasy version of Abbot from The Pitt.

OK, I mean, you don’t just get to post something like that and not include a source.