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.