All very fair points. It’s all wildly complicated, and I agree; we don’t really understand ourselves.

What are your underlying models of the world built out of?

As a Bayesian, my models of the world are built on priors. That is, assumptions I’ve made based on my existing information. From that, I make an educated guess about the world with that model and see what the world does. If my guess doesn’t match reality, I update my assumptions to rebuild my model and repeat the process until it’s close enough.

This is the way the best science is done, and I fell it’s the way that humans really work. Language is just a type of model we use to communicate the world to others, each of us may have a slightly different Bayesian understanding of the language yet we can still communicate.

The game went to no monthly fees a long time ago. They only charge for new accounts and characters. If you have an old account you can just log in and play. There’s a player run news and link site here, that has a link to ‘Clieunk’, a client for modern macs and news since 2001. Though we haven’t always been the best at sending in news.

Yup! The GMs are a lot more active recently, adding things to the game continuously. And now there’s regular scheduled events where the GMs push stories and interaction to a level we haven’t seen in a decade.

Clan Lord. It’s a place that’s special in my heart. I’ve been playing on and off since 2001.

Riven is quite possibly my favorite game ever. I had so much fun just wandering around immersing myself in the world.

The Steam summer sale starts June 29th, so you shouldn’t have to wait long for that discount.

My MarioKart 64 cartridge probably won’t inform me that Python2.7 was deprecated.

It also won’t tell you if the OpenSSL library it uses has a vulnerability or not. I program mainly as a hobby and I still wonder how containers deal with that issue.

Universal Paperclips, mentioned in the book, is a journey. What starts as a clicker game turns into so much more. It’s a free browser game, but in that old-time sense of freeware.