Michael Fitch

My wife and I have been on a ten year hiatus. Soon, the kid will be able to DPS for us.

Another great lineup - every year!

Gee, I wonder why all these people with high-profile policy voices are advocating for politics that are less likely to impact on the wealthy and corporations?

I'm sure it has nothing to do with where their paychecks come from.

I also dropped out of my Ph.D. program.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov

This is what people want. Consequences. Fight.

The people who are breaking the law must be brought to justice.

Anything less is giving up. Anything less is complicity.

We need politicians with values and spines.

I reject this framing on its face. I did not choose this. I am part of America.

We don't need more punditry.

Thanks for the insights!

Yeah, I don't really understand Chess AI, but my sense is it's very permutation-driven; you're doing look-aheads and evaluation of potential outcomes.

What kind of world-state does an RTS AI need to care about? What form does that take?

@thegamechief.bsky.social @graemedevine.com any insights here? Out of my depth, but seems like an area you two would understand deeply.

Trans Rights are Human Rights.

Moon astronaut meme:
You mean it’s people all the way down?

Always was.

Yes! Love to see it.

Yes, yes, 100 times yes.

You cannot create a profit incentive to jail people and not expect innocent people to end up in jail.

Given that her handbag had thousands of dollars of cash in it when it was lifted in DC?

I'm going with Cocaine.

I am definitely stupider about things that are happening now than I used to be, but I'm also wiser about the context in which such things happen in ways that were completely inaccessible to me at the time.

Hypothesis: You are more likely to prototype if you enjoy the arts and crafts activities involved.

Designers who prototype more frequently / iterate more effectively get to better results.

Designers who are successful are more likely to continue designing.

I misread that as “theatrical group”, but frankly, I think it still works

Let me say this again:
I do not care what the NY Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, Axios, or anybody else want to say about the State of the Union.

Pundits offering takes professionally is part of what got us here.

Shut up and go away. You're all parasites.

This is not a bad thing

I like how you could substitute the name of whoever designed / programmed the system for "yourself" and it still works.

I mean, that's an un-truism, but still highly recognizable.

"Never leave a Snickers lying unattended in the design room"

"You're not having the right kind of fun"

"If I'd wanted it to do that, I would have designed it that way."

I'm looking for game dev truisms:

"You ship because you have to, not because you're done"

"No design survives contact with development"

"Players are right about their experience, but wrong about how to fix it."

Things people who have been there and done that instantly recognize.

What you got?

I understand none of this, but I love the spirit of helping each other that it represents for me.

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Is there a reason we're doing the mind/body problem this morning? Wake up feeling like a brain in a vat?

AI can never capture the soul of an artist. It can make things glossy; it can render in incredible detail. But, it can't mean anything because it has no intention. It can't make a joke because it doesn't understand humor or context.

Only you can make the art that you make. That's worth it.

Everyone underestimates what it takes to ship a game until they've shipped a game.

Most people who've shipped games underestimate what it's going to take to ship the next game.

We do it because it's hard. We live for making the impossible real.

I mean, that's only true due to accounting shenanigans. It's like spinning up a ton of flywheels - sure, you spent a lot of energy, but do you have anything to show for it?

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.

As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.

Here's what happened: