2025-06-02
A new Dungeons and Dragons 'singleplayer action-adventure' game is coming from the former director of Respawn's Star Wars Jedi games
Stig Asmussen has finally revealed what he's getting up to at his new Giant Skull studio.
What Happens When Purpose Is Assumed, Not Discovered
A cautionary tale of ambition, denial, and the costly consequences of building a startup without a clear problem to solve or customers to serve.
Script Debugger Retired
Mark Alldritt, Late Night Software: The day has finally come. After 30 years of continuous development, Script Debugger has been retired and will no longer be available for sale. Please...
Hemingway Case
Published on June 2, 2025 6:50 PM GMTWhy did the chicken cross the road?Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.My son asks: If HelloWorld is camel case, hello_world is snake...
The Wisdom of Living for 200 Years
Published on June 2, 2025 6:50 PM GMTScott Sumner writes: Old people have a sort of double vision about the past — an ability to see the past from the...
Controlled Creative Destruction
Published on June 2, 2025 6:50 PM GMTCreative destruction is a process which lets the inefficient fail and the efficient survive. It's the economists' way of saying of "survival of...
Antitrust as Controlled Creative Destruction
Published on June 2, 2025 6:50 PM GMTStandard Oil, Refinery No. 1Splitting large companies is an antitrust measure which, in its essence, is meant as an act of controlled creative...
Agency in Politics
Published on June 2, 2025 6:50 PM GMTMatt Yglesias explains why history is not a steam roller with a steering wheel welded tight, unyielding and incorrigible.Of course, only a very...
SRE's review of Democracy
Published on June 2, 2025 6:50 PM GMTDay OneWe've been handed this old legacy system called "Democracy". It's an emergency. The old maintainers are saying it has been misbehaving lately...
Music in the AI World
Published on June 2, 2025 6:50 PM GMTThe worries that AI will push artists out of business are widespread. If, after all, AI can generate a song in seconds —...
Referendum Mechanics in a Marketplace of Ideas
Published on June 2, 2025 6:50 PM GMTOne can definitely make referendums more complex by mixing in unrelated stuff, unnecessary restrictions, and complexities. But that's not the case with Swiss...
Slave Morality: A place for every man and every man in his place
Published on June 2, 2025 6:50 PM GMTLately, there has been a discussion between Bentham's Bulldog, Scott Alexander and others about the nature of the slave morality. The outcome for...
European Progress Conference
Published on June 2, 2025 6:50 PM GMTEurope has become known as a hub of degrowth.Where are the authors of degrowth papers from?European parliament even hosted a degrowth conference. Ursula...
What AI apps are surprisingly absent given current capabilities?
Published on June 2, 2025 6:46 PM GMT[Epistemic status: a software engineer and AI user, not an AI researcher] I could not find a readily available book database that offers...
US Should Learn, Not Lecture: Israel & Ukraine Show Tactical Brilliance
ODESSA, UKRAINE—Too often, policymakers in the White House and Pentagon, or pundits on cable news shows, approach war fighting in far off lands with a 6,000-mile screwdriver. They try dictate...
Meta Tutorial In Games: How It Works and Why It’s Useful
War Robots has two layers of content: the battle part and the meta part. To help players understand how the game’s various mechanics work, we created a tutorial system. The...
Elon Musk Is Realizing He Made a Huge Mistake
Tesla has been put through the ringer in its CEO Elon Musk's absence. The EV maker saw earnings plummet in the first quarter of this year, with net income cratering...
The Internet Just Changed Forever (And You Probably Missed It)
A new breakthrough called "real-time proving" by Succinct Labs makes Ethereum transactions incredibly fast and cheap, solving a major hurdle for decentralized tech. This means your phone can become a...
Surprise! Dune: Awakening will have private servers at launch after all, where players can disable taxes and enable 'free-for-all' PvP
One of the most-requested Dune: Awakening features is now a reality.
[Beneath Psychology] Chronic pain challenge part 2: the solution
Published on June 2, 2025 5:30 PM GMTIn the last post, I introduced an example where I was talking to someone suffering from chronic pain. Today we will dive into...
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