Games, policy, and machine learning. Ideally, all three at once.
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My talk at NavyCon 2021 about AI in SciFi and how it's less fictional than we'd like. MAGFest 2022 and NekoCon 2015 talks coming soon!
Fantastical AIs and Where to Find Them Illegal youtu.be/Qwcc-bkAyHM via @YouTube
I think it's time for me to be done with games. I've let myself become too passionate about them, they've come to be too much of my self-identity, and it's time to grow up, put the games down, and spend my time on more serious things.
Elon Musk is perhaps the greatest example possible of why STEM education is dangerous without humanities. This sounds like a great idea if you're a middle schooler, but is obviously absurd if you've sat through the first two weeks of a single poli sci class.
Almost everyone in every government is unelected. Using "unelected" as a pejorative or criticism is a thing stupid people say to sound smart to other stupid people.
STEM bros will shit on humanities students and then immediately demonstrate why humanities education is important.
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Really interesting result of Twitter's thumbnail compression here: when you see this tweet on your timeline, a lot of the lines appear green; when you expand the tweet, there are fewer; and when you expand the image itself, you discover that there are no green lines at all
Building better rail infrastructure at every level is something I would absolutely love if trump did it, but here's the thing with Nazis and trains,
Replacing a programmer with an LLM is like replacing your 747 with a DIY biplane. It's possible, but it's going to fail in a way you won't know how to fix at the worst possible time.
This was my fear during the Afghanistan withdrawal. When people say they want a politician with beliefs who'll do the right thing even if it's unpopular, they don't vote for them. Biden did the right thing five different times just to lose. We'll never see that again.
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We must not delude ourselves in this moment. Multiracial democracy in the United States is less than 60 years old. It has always been contested, often violently so. It has always been fragile. Since this nation's inception large swaths of white Americans -- including white women -- have claimed a belief in democracy while actually enforcing a white ethnocracy. In the face of shifting demographics where white Americans will lose their numeric majority, we see a growing embrace of autocracy to keep the "legitimate" rulers of this country in power. History teaches us that we are in a perilous moment.
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Lots of people are about to radically change their view of how the economy is doing
Since putting them up on the wall when I left active duty I'm 2016, I'm taking down my decorations and awards from my military service. I was proud of my service, but I feel ashamed to have defended democracy only to see it vote itself away. Maybe they'll go back up one day.
But they can't. Legacy media has learned the lesson of social media: engagement, not quality, means survival. No one earns grants, donations, clicks, and subscriptions by telling you the obviously true thing for several months in a row.
This is up there with Tom Hanks in Black Jeopardy as one of the most succinct political climate critiques in parody history.
When I teach people this game (and Labyrinth) I always point out that for as dense as it is, they have the luxury of a rulebook; the rulebook was blank for the decision makers of the time.
This is a fascinating read. Brian Train is an expert and prolific wargame designer, both commercial and PME.
What jumped out at me was this - Brian was asked how he would redesign "A Distant Plain" - a game on the War in Afghanistan that he co-designed with @Volko26 - without any constraints.
Here is what he said:
-There should be 20 players, not 4.
-They should all be kept in separate rooms, with limited information.
-Some players would be dedicated entirely to logistics and training.
-The game should last several days, not hours.
-No one is told the true victory conditions.
-Players have limited opportunities to communicate with each other and are encouraged to lie.
-Players come in and drop out, or are promoted to new roles at random intervals.
This is just mind-blowing. It's not merely saying how the Afghan War was hopelessly mismanaged. It's also about how we abstract out so much from games in the name of balance and fun that they can drift away entirely from the real constraints on military decision-making.
Check it out here:
madsciblog.tradoc.army.mil/5…