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It’s also likely that having grown up surrounded by journalists and people working for newspapers, his education allows him to properly write articles as a freshman. That doesn’t prevent him for learning computer science if that’s what he likes doing.


Yeah if you have insight into why a field is interesting from a younger age, you are more likely to be interested in it yourself as well.

That also goes the other way. My dad was a lawyer, and I know a little more about the law and legal profession than the average joe. However that was enough information to tell me I had no interest in being a lawyer.


To be fair to Jung, most of what he wrote is barely coherent garbage with zero experimental backing and an attitude towards intellectual honesty and scientific integrity which I would politely qualify as problematic. Sorry, I think it had to be said.


Do you fear Jung's ideas? If they are incoherent garbage with no merit, shouldn't they just collapse under their own weight?


History doesn't support this. Bad ideas can be remarkably persistent. Yes I fear Jung's ideas if they give rise to beliefs that are harmful to me, or to society. An example would be biased stereotypes surrounding the introvert / extravert dichotomy.

Disclosure: I'd probably test as an extravert, but would advise against identifying as an introvert in a business setting due to the bias against introverts.


Interesting, I would have considered the idea of pretending to be someone I'm not for extended periods of time to be far more harmful than any potential disadvantages I might experience in a busieness setting for being an introvert.

I don't think any undue stereotypes around the introversion / extraversion dimension come from Jung, but have simply been attached to the concept by ill-informed society. It's hard to fault Jung for this. Introversion / Extraversion is also part of the Big 5 and has more substantial scientific backing than the foundations laid by Jung.


I think the question becomes how you identify. It's one thing to casually mention to your boss that you don't like social gatherings, quite another to have it become part of your official identity or electronic data record, so that people can use it as a sorting key. And of course a sliding scale between those extremes.

There's lots of things about me, that I can reveal to some people and not others. I want to be in control of the narrative.


People find his ideas fun. That doesn't mean they're good.

Astrology is much more obviously incoherent, but it isn't going to "collapse under its own weight" any time soon either.


Collapse? Yes eventually, but in the meantime…


People said the same about Freud at the time, but now look at how his work is regarded. It now has experimental backing, is effective, supported by many health agencies, etc.


It’s an init system and a process manager. How exactly can it be fun?

Technically, I guess it’s interesting to design if you are an expert but as a user, having to use creativity is the last thing I want from low level pieces of my OS. If you want to tinker with OS design, you can always install Minix in a VM.


> It’s an init system and a process manager. How exactly can it be fun?

I don't know about fun, but different people find different things fun.

I find systemd to be often irritating, and sometimes infuriating. It has not made my life easier at all. Just the opposite. So, in that sense anyway, I'd say systemd is much less fun.


> the original but better

Better story but less interesting and easier combats. I know of at least one person who loved the first mostly for the gameplay and got bored very quickly with the second. Both incredible games anyway.


I have only played Forbidden West and it’s the most mediocre experience I had with a video game in the past decade. The gameplay felt clunky with weird spikes of difficulty in the middle of otherwise fairly boring segments. The main plot was utter trash and the other quests completely uninteresting. If that’s the standard of good AAA games, I never want to play another one.


What would you consider the best experience you had with a video game in the past decade?


Probably the first Spelunky but Slay the Spire, A Short Hike and Disco Elysium are close. Honorable mention to both 80 days, Stardew Valley and The Witcher 3.


Seconding all of those. Disco Elysium and some parts of Witcher 3 are some of the finest storytelling of the 21st century in any medium.


Hollow knight, ori and the will of the wisps or kerbal space progranm, one of those for sure.

Returnal is way up there though, it is possible to make good AAA.

Other gems are Frostpunk, Outer Wilds, Vampire Survivors.

Can't remember what else.


Outer Wilds is the only game that made me cry it was so good. Incredibly deep and meaningful story, 10/10


Elden Ring is certainly one of the best I played the past decade. The production design is fantastic.


I worked my way back through their catalogue and I have to say I love each of them in such a particular way that I couldn't call any one the best, including Elden Ring. Which was the most fun I had in probably years.

While one starts to recognize repeating themes (and assets), I was shocked to find out how much the original Dark Souls feels like the predecessor to Elden Ring, just more intimate and simpler (for better and worse).

All that said, I'd still recommend Elden Ring to any first-timers.


Do they? Considering how much was at stack in term of PR when OpenAI released ChatGPT, I would be surprised that Google didn’t put out the best they could.


The other end of the PR stake was safety/alignment. If Google released a well functioning model, but it said some unsavory things or carried out requests that the public doesn't find agreeable, it could make Google look bad.


> maybe as an intermediate step we could make available all the recordings to the peer reviewers

The issue is clearly not the amount of data available to peer reviewers considering it's already easy to detect major flaws in a quarter of published peer reviewed research. The issue is that peer reviewers do a shoddy job which should surprise no one having ever published peer reviewed research.

And to be fair why should they do better? It's generally unpaid, it's poorly paid when it is paid and it's not particularly well considered.


Sounds like a YC idea?


Please read the article before commenting. The problem is not how hard it is to run clinical trial. It's that made up data is an endemic problem. It doesn't matter if clinical trials are hard or easy to organise when up to a quarter don't actually bother and just forge their results.


But they have to make up that data! Because the work they are doing now was based on a other trial where they made up data, so you have to fix this data to match what was expected from the previous studies. Of course we need to protect their right to make up data. /s


> but there's also an extraordinarily low level of discussion. I was shocked when I clicked on the first review and realized it was a review - "oh, huh, when did it come out?"

You are commenting on an article in the Verge for a movie which has only been released in Japan and won’t be out in the USA for months. This article is one of many in most western publications. A lot can be said about this movie but having a low level of discussion is definitely not one of them.

What’s the point of a marketing campaign when you have so much organic reach?


There were way more Western articles about _The Wind Rises_ back then. I definitely wasn't clicking on a review and going 'wait, that came out already?' Everyone knew, whether or not they had any interest in anime.


You seem to assume @gwern isn't a Japanese speaker. His comments about low volume of reviews might very well apply to just Japan.


I don’t need to assume anything. Gwern isn’t an anonymous poster. His bio is in his profile and he is indeed American.

First results are in by the way. Second highest results for the opening weekend of a Ghibli movie. I think they will survive the lack of marketing.


> I don’t need to assume anything. Gwern isn’t an anonymous poster. His bio is in his profile and he is indeed American

Far out, thank you for this, I was under the impression Gwern was anonymous - I’m glad you don’t need to assume anything.


Japanese speaker here. It does. The review volume is low (apparently no preview for media?), and these people aren't very excited, it seems.)


The issue with Paris is not the Parisians. It’s the bloody tourists. Covid was great. Please stop coming. Thank you.


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