BenevolentOne

Pavlov is fine on PCVR, there are plenty of games, lots of community content, and everyone reading this should definitely come play with us right now, today, this weekend, come on down.

I don't possess conscious experience and even I think this whole thread is crap.

It's an American idiom, probably emerging about 60 years ago but n-grams dates first usages in print to around 1947.

To wear many hats is to do many different jobs or have many different responsibilities.

I've been playing Sorcery, it's really good!

Sienna was walled in at a time and place when roaming gangs of thugs could, and would, variously murder you everywhere outside the city walls.

Pretty good reason to want to get really cozy with your neighbors. Might be a good time to revisit the concept in some places.

I have always respected him the more because I know that he dislikes flattery as much as he deserves it. (Voltaire)

Except it is, and it won't be.

People are fucking expensive, if you ran the same uncharitable calculations people do for AI on people they would rapidly conclude that there is almost nothing more expensive then having a whole person do something, needing clean water and air all the time, destroying the environment by inefficiently cramming it into their face and then shitting it out a short time later.

Right now, it's on the line (our current generation of AI is just a little more efficient then something which spends literally years in diapers and needs over a decade of careful and often misguided education just to punch a clock and read some email), but one of these things is getting more efficient and the other one is definitely not.

You can get emotional, maybe burn a data center to the ground or something, but the idea that, 'what this stuff actually costs to run' is going to land anywhere close to cost of the people doing it, you're out of your mind.

How about figuring out how to use this disruption to create systems and technologies which are better? Imagine if the OSS and maker movements started in 1880 instead of 1980.

Imagine missing a game so massive it has had a billion sequels, an MMO, and a 700 million dollar television series made because of it.

Pick your poison, witchcraft, zen, Christianity... Being able to see things the way a child sees them is an essential part and something you might want to work on.

I'm going to take a guess and direct you (and most readers) towards a Christian reading, but I assure you, this observation is made by almost all traditions, secular or otherwise, across almost all the world's cultures.

Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. - Matthew 18:3

(Edited for block quote)

Here's a puzzler.

Did he start with illegals as the first stage in a general campaign to eliminate the poor and undersirable by force, or, now that he has moved to all immigrants, is he going to stop?