Sly Gryphon @sgryphon@qoto.org

@JoeGrowling @tante and the human brain neurons "just fire their electrical charge when their input charge is above a threshold".

It is not the underlying simple mechanism that is relevant, but the emergent complexity. LLMs are so good at modelling thought patterns (to determine the next word) that they are thought patterns.

@IcarusGames after a bit of a hiatus, my wife is finishing off the Dragonlance campaign she has been running for a few years, with only a few sessions left starting Sunday.

@juergen_hubert Thunderbird, even when on Windows for my personal mail (work is Outlook, but I only use the web version generally).

@Legit_Spaghetti have a look at the old game Dream Park, where you play a person playing a LARP i.e. both the player and the LARP character

@NosirrahSec @jik sure, because you don't increase it enough to have discernable effect beyond the noise of general economic activity. Only 1% of USA are on minimum wage. My point was that increasing it to something like $500/hour (or even $50/hour) *would* have an effect - do you disagree with that?

@jik although clearly at some point raising the minimum is going to fail, otherwise why not make it $500 / hour and we would all be rich?

What about $50 / hour? Do you think that would work?

Corruption and friction may be a problem, but they don't negate the underlying relationship that a price floor above the market will reduce volume compared to what it otherwise would have been.

@juergen_hubert anyone (caught) trying your "second best" strategy would be immediately fired if it was my company. There is no place for such underhanded and dishonest people in any company.

If you work a professional job, the strategy should be to act professional. If that doesn't work at your company then your "best strategy" will become self-fulfilling.

@amuse there are other factors, like if you are discontinuing a business area, but all other things being equal, whether they announce it or not, companies will get rid of the worst performers if they can.

That's why I laugh when a company claims they only employ the "top 10%", based on hiring stats/applications. That's not the top 10% of market ... that is the top 10% of those looking for jobs ... so closer to they top 10% of the bottom 5%.

To actually employ the top 10% you need to actively headhunt those at the top, and then pay salaries at the top 10% of market.

Hint: if your salaries are benchmarked to market and your employees are in the middle band, you don't have the top 10%; you have average (the middle 50%) workers.