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I watched his videos a while ago and if I remember right he said that he just saved up money at his last job and was living off that. I'm also pretty sure he was living in London so definitely nothing cheap.

yeah that's probably how it will go lol

The other night I stayed up to an unreasonable hour organising some emulators for my mini PC. Have I ever had an interest in emulation before? Nope. Will I ever have touch half these games? Definitely not. Am I now down a few hundred GB in drive space? Unfortunately yes.

Normally not an anime guy, but I ended up watching both seasons of Solo Leveling, and it was really good! Kind of just mindless fun, sure, but nice to have on in the background so I could look over at a cool fight if I was bored.

I'm not sold on the whole universe being deterministic, but Robert Sapolsky has a book called Determined which has pretty much convinced me that we don't have any agency. He's a neuroscientist, and breaks down what goes in to our actions based on the immediate causes, our environment, our upbringing, our culture, and, in my opinion, doesn't really leave a place for agency to remain. I don't really understand his arguments well enough to articulate them here, but I think he's done some interviews on YouTube which I'm sure will cover the gist of it.

For me, it would have to be:

• Factorio
• Rimworld
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Tetris DS
• Disco Elysium

Considering that we could just end up with covid 2 tomorrow it seems that any answer is going to be arbitrary so might as well give an optimistic one. The West's slide to the right is prevented by a leftist surge as parties such as Labour and the Democrats realise that they can't win by trying to attract the right, and so instead double down on progressive policy - which works for them as they're able to reform their image and start really appealing to the people.

AI slop starts to falter as it feeds off of self-produced training data until it becomes literally incomprehensible, meaning that it can be easily ignored or not understood by the majority of people, as well as being banned on the rising stars of the internet: federated social media, independent streaming services (think Nebula, Dropout), and newly-independent news sites, like Giant Bomb.

The climate change issue is now taken more seriously, as the generations unfamiliar with the internet who could be sucked into misinformation rabbit holes start to die off, and policymakers who have grown up understanding the existential threat it poses to all of us take power.

The workplaces of large corporations start unionising, even illegally at first, and establish strong community centred power bases which are used to demand better treatment not only in the workplace, but also to bargain with the government. A focus returns to the local community.

(I know all this is very wishful thinking, but figured the thread could use some more positivity 🫶)

Just wanted to say that it's always a highlight of my day reading these :)

Nice! Are you just starting S2? I really liked S1, but have stayed away because I heard S2 was divisive to say the least.

Dated someone for a couple of years in my teens. Had multiple people assume they were a virgin because "it's bad enough that you're dating them, but your standards can't be that low right?"

I'd love to see the future, because I really am hopeful for humanity to move beyond all this bullshit to some post scarcity utopia :)) Failing that, I'd probably go watch Phineas Gage's big moment, because, woah.

Thanks for the video, will check it out!

I think that my main issue is that this stuff is just straight up supernatural, to the point where I would need hard evidence, for example contemporary accounts from people neutral towards or opposing Christianity before I could believe it. I'm not going to commit to believing in something unless there is appropriate evidence for it, and Jesus' miracles just happened too long ago to be verifiable.

I really appreciate you taking the time to talk to me about this!