Notices by clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)

@impactology handmade hero is famous for having done this

@impactology aw, thanks ❤️

@catilac aw, yes definitely!!

@dante yeah with you on this. something about it.

@impactology it’s mostly just a pulpy detective novella that just happens to be set in a utopia but I find that to be kind of charming in and of itself

@impactology feels worth reading The Dispossessed if you haven’t already. Or Fugitive Telemetry in the murderbot series. Both describe anarchist societies that fit at least some of these properties

@davidcelis ty!

@dymaxion oh you work in security. that seems like a domain where you maybe can’t get away with being full of shit

@dymaxion I think knowing this disqualifies you from being the kind of bootlicker that most companies hire as eng managers

@jovialthunder wow that’s wild

I played a bit of Kenshi today for research and like — it presents a world of total depravity with bandits and slavers and little apparent reigning order or authority. and yet it also has a stable accepted currency? irl this sort of world would be a “heroic” society and the bandit kings would compete with each other by hosting generous feasts and exchanging gifts.

just want a simulation-y game that isn’t deeply Hobbesian… excited to build a gift economy into my roguelike if I ever get to that point

Anyway people always ask me "clarity how do you know so much" and this is the answer. It basically amounts to "take the stairs instead of the elevator when you can"

YOU: I use the AI to help me write SQL queries because I'm not very confident with it, so it saves me a lot of time.

ME: [genuine] That's pretty cool! I learned to write SQL a decade ago, so I think I'm good personally.

Me talking to any engineering manager: "yeah so my general philosophy is that there are no shortcuts to knowledge and skill, so I prioritize reading documentation and developing deep understanding of my tools over searching for quick fixes to problems so that I start to have immediate intuitive answers to my problems. I barely ever check stack overflow anymore and have never really had the need to ask an AI for an answer"

him: [surprised pikachu face] is that possible???

@dante over time I feel like I've learned that if you think of literally anything as being first-and-foremost a "precursor" to something else you are probably falling prey to propaganda

@m yeah, agree with all of this

@janpet @m need to repeat forever: if it’s running proprietary software on someone else’s computer and charging you a subscription, it’s not a tool. it’s -infrastructure-, and as such warrants a power analysis. any comparison to tools is disingenuous.

@typeswitch@gamedev.lint daydreaming about what the existence of anti-information would imply now

I’m fully on the Kill Gameplay train now tbh, and become more convinced every time I see another defensive reaction along the lines of “value judgments are impossible and also evil”