[Bluestein]

Exactly my feeling.-

PS. Which leads me - tangentially - to think that (maybe) the solution to (at least) some of our problems might someday be found in a cult :)

Who knows ...

> Absurd: So we ported everything over to the NES.

This was grand. The NES as a most effective "baseline" platform. Can totally see humanity sending out an NES emulator on Voyager VI as a last gasp.-

[bee_rider]

This is now my headcanon for why the UI of super advanced computers in 80’s sci-fi movies looks the way it does.

[Bluestein]

Good call :)

"8 bit 'looks' and hardware constitutes - and 'looks like' - some optimum as far as computing is concerned"

... so sufficiently advanced systems will look like it to interface with us as a sort of lingua franca.-

AGIs. Alien probes. The works. They will all look to us like a C64 or NES would :)

[medstrom]

It's like how you can say that VT100 emulation has an expiration date, but you can't say that about the underlying concept of some UI based on a screenful of monospaced text, which is immortal.

[throwup238]

> PS. Which leads me - tangentially - to think that (maybe) the solution to (at least) some of our problems might someday be found in a cult :)

The major religions have been beating that dead horse for a long time.

[yawpitch]

And then resurrecting it.

[Bluestein]

(I See what you did here :)

[BalinKing]

I apologize for an off-topic question, but I'm curious why you choose to write "." as ".-". Is it an internet convention I'm unaware of, or maybe punctuation from a language other than English?

[Bluestein]

No problem, thanks.-

Please, vid.:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40989221

[wizzwizz4]

LessWrong had some pretty good advice in the early months of the pandemic, despite their terrible track record on politics and AI. There's a lot right with the Amish. You could write an entire book about the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Cults can have a lot to offer.

[Bluestein]

> Cults can have a lot to offer.

... in no small part perhaps because they remain isolated "pockets" of culture where - often - "progress" is slower or more controlled. Where idiosyncratic behavior becomes the "new" orthodoxy as behavior or culture "degrades".-

Where was it ... "Nightfall" (the novel) I think it was where a cult periodically saves civilization - by being the only ones that know how to handle the aftermath.-

[kragen]

cults are generally the only way to solve deep-rooted problems. otherwise people's habits are too strong and they keep reproducing the existing traditions that create the problems through unexamined avenues

technically varvara isn't actually the nes

[Bluestein]

> cults are generally the only way to solve deep-rooted problems.

Now that's an interesting proposition (which, I do not contend mind you ...)

[yard2010]

The real question stands still - how can I join your cult?

[Bluestein]

Seconded.-

Make it a thousand rabbits. Make it a flotilla. Make it an armada ... :)