Every leftist who has engaged with mutual aid knows this and has known this for decades. Glad someone is backing it up with research.

Means testing hurts programs and leads to worse outcomes.

Also the cost of the bureaucracy is eliminated.

There is often so much bureaucracy in government aid programs that I sometimes wonder if universal basic income might be more efficient. It's something I don't see brought up at all in ubi discussions. You'd still need some bureaucracy for expanded aid etc but I'd find it very interesting to see someone do the math on whether it would save money for various countries. And I don't mean this to be an argument for ubi it's just a point of many related to ubi that I'd love to see brought up more.

No idea why you are being downvoted. Everything you said is literally true and a genuine concern for researchers.

The right was so concerned about what you couldn't say because it maybe damaged your credibility. But what we're having now is that same group doing find and replace cuts on grants that use a laundry list of banned words.

What I'm saying here might seem hyperbolic to some, but these are the discussions I'm hearing at faculty meetings.

You do care if a cut is political. "We cut farm subsidies because Iowa voted against us" is a political vote. "We cut defense spending because we believe in peace through diplomacy" is a political cut. "We cut disease research because we think vaccines cause autism" is a political cut.

Two years? Try ten. Biden didn't undo political behavior of Trumps first term.

Almost certainly. Quality of life for well educated people is absolutely higher in many parts of the world. Whether you are in parts of Europe, New Zealand, east Asia, you can definitely land in better places.

The idea that the US is "the best place to live" is a persistent cultural myth. It's mostly good for a lot of classes of people, but even that's changing as of late.

Western Europe and New Zealand are great places to live (east Asia is too big - I had to qualify Europe as well for similar reasons). However the US is also a great place to live. You cannot make any universal statement that one is better than another. There are pros and cons, but for the most part things are similar, and the difference is only slightly different sets of trade offs. In the US you will probably make more income which can lead to better quality of life in the form of things you can buy - but things you can buy isn't everything (and there are people who would make less in the US)

The expression "parts of" means "not all of". I didn't want to type out every neighborhood in Japan, Korea, China, etc.

Transit, biking, walking, ride sharing, carpooling, taxis, and other methods exist to get you places.

Often times these are faster than driving, when you consider the time it takes to find a spot park and pay for parking.

Ooooof the results here are rough. A very young child might find this charming, but I think it's kind of embarrassing. Like, the walk cycles alone are. Yeah...

To say nothing of ur word shaders, inconsistency in the characters, questionable gender stereotypes, etc.

This definitely tells me that AI definitely isn't there yet.

It's a one-shot. Iterate and you can make magic happen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiWKfq4niC8

When it gets there eventually (5-10 years??) it's gonna be pretty rough for the humans that used to do those things. Then again I suppose that applies to the rest of the economy as well.

Of course we wouldn't. Because the humans have feelings.

If a human gamedev made this in a few days (pre-AI / assuming the AI slop artstyle didn't exist), and you think that the only reason people wouldn't call it embarrassing is to avoid hurting their feelings, you either have a vastly inflated idea of the average person's abilities or you're deluding yourself. Be real man.

I was alive in the nineties. This game is radically different. For one, characters used both their legs when they walked in the 90s.

The things I noticed:

- punch and kick don't seem to have differences in effect, just animation - bosses don't have obvious gimmicks to beat them

But the main take-away for me is that this takes me back to computing in my youth, where you could dream up a project and bash it out in a few days. It wouldn't be polished, it wouldn't be perfect, but it would be yours. It would do what you wanted. Computing was ours, it didn't yet belong to big corporations controlling what we could do and how we could do it.

Projects like this give me hope that a new generation will experience that. Aiden won't ever forget this game, even if it's nothing special to you or me. Aiden won't ever forget that feeling of imagining a change, and having it happen. The price for it would've been somewhere around $300-$500, so not exactly broadly accessible - making AI efficient enough to run cheaply should be the main goal of humanity, but we're letting computing get locked up by a few rich sociopaths once again.

Related: I don't see how any kid is going to have the motivation and patience to learn how to program a game like this from scratch now when you can just conjure it up with an LLM.

Why would I sit through years of education? The number of competent programmers is going to drop significantly, but also, people are not going to learn the patience and commitment necessary to do hard things, which is part of learning to program.

I've thought a bit about this. It probably depends on whether the notion that AI can actually replace programmers is hype or fact. If it's hype, we might well see a decline in the number of competent programmers in response to a reduced market (though, IMO, the people who respond to market signals about a profession are rarely the best talents). If it's fact, we'll definitely see a decline, and that'll be appropriate.

But for whether a kid will have the motivation and patience to learn how it all works depends, as it always did, on the kid. I started out typing in BASIC programs from magazines. If I weren't who I am, that might have been the extent of it - typing programs in gets replaced with loading from diskette, but no curiosity about how they work ever kicks in. Certainly kids born just a tiny bit later than me cut their teeth on machines where you never saw source code except by choice, and still got the urge to figure out how it all works and to make it do what you wanted.

Plus, of course, I wouldn't, as a child, teenager, or young adult, have ever paid the equivalent then of $300 to have someone else write something for me. That's a rich man's trade-off. I still wouldn't today: maybe I could spare that sort of money but ingrained habits that say I can make that myself die hard.

(And maybe Aiden gets an interest in game design sparked, rather than in programming!)

Natural GLP 1 is an extremely different molecule to these drugs. Natural GLP 1 gets used in minutes. It's like a house key. It fits in the lock, and it's easy to remove.

These GLP 1 drugs are huge molecules with a GLP 1 shaped key on them. It's like a house key attached to a school bus. Once it's in your lock, that key is going to be a pain to remove.

Stimulating natural GLP 1 helps for a few minutes. Using these drugs can help for a week.

Yes. But not fully. You will have less noise, most likely, which is enough to hopefully teach yourself different habits.

I take it for ASD related food noise, and it's incredible.