@redpillschool I once communicated with this superstar programmer Richard Harris about his Babel JS competitor called Bubel. He was very responsive and cool. It's kind of amazing how many of the top people that I've interacted with online. For example I've chatted with a previous top director of GNU, major Linux distributions, my old highschool bro is at the very top of a major non-profit technology organization of which whose technology your probably using. The Internet is great in that if you have an interest and something smart to say then you can be hanging out with the big boys (even while being a loser in your underwear (and once you own your own house then the mom's basement jokes no longer work)).

Anyways, so this guy is kick ass, and having dealt with him, his genius and his kindness it was obvious to me that Svelte would rise very fast.

Rich Harris - Annoying Things About Svelte

@slutmagazine I can enjoy each Civilization game well after each expansion pack has come out and been fixed up nicely (because fuck that Day 1 shit on a game that complex) because I'm not deluded into thinking that it's somehow a perfect or even decent proxy for real life. There are certain strategic lessons to be learned from games like this and Sim City though. Such as that California looks and feels like when you've stopped caring about your map and so the last thing to do before quiting the game is to pause it, enter the cheat codes, and just go nuts pasting out the most uninspired big block zoning of everything along with the stroads to connect it all together. At that moment my gentle love becomes contempt as I continue playing a game that I no longer enjoy soley for the purpose of doing the next thing before I shit can it. In this situation Sim City is the perfect hyper-real proxy for real California life that takes all of the boring shit like City Hall meetings and turns it into fleeting amusement as I god power my way to destroying everything by drowning out the good parts with what everyone else gets.

@slutmagazine Yeah, so AI will be judged against the best of humans, and they'll be ignoring all of the dumb shit humans who were programmed like simple warehouse level robots on all of the critical issues. I've got retarded friends who keep making the same mistakes, and sometimes I've been there. But we'll expect AI to be on point and a failure if it keeps making the same mistake fifty times even while understanding that it's a mistake. A lot of humans are very fucked up, and it's the gold standard that we insist is awesome due to the ideology of democracy. I think that before not too long we'll have specialized AI that among best of them (since they could diverge and become dysfunctional due to their ability to learn) are better than most humans. I still think though that it will be a long fucking time before there are AI that can be said to be generally better than the upper end of human intelligence. Better than the guy on crack though? Better than that annoying family member? No problem.