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original: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ericswise_read-over-the-leaked-meta-docs-about-their-activity-7348690334488403968-Ryrz

Text: Post on Linked in by Eric Wise:

Read over the leaked Meta docs about their AI chatbot program.

If I were a villain, this would be an amazing strategy.

First, encourage people to isolate themselves from socializing with real people in the real world. This is easy to do by stoking social anxiety and fear of rejection.

Next, addict them to scrolling, quick dopamine hits leading to a compulsive need always to be processing without time to reflect.

Then, slowly start replacing genuine human connection with engineered engagement and simulated intimacy. (We are currently here, with sycophantic AI). Remember that fear of rejection and social anxiety? Your AI pal won't ever judge you.

After that, don't forget about all the data! We're already seeing people share their fears, desires, and insecurities in these tools. This will be mined and analyzed.

Finally, we can use the data and dependency on these tools for social validation to manipulate the opinions and behavior of the victims... I mean, users, in service of the highest bidder, whether it is a corporation or government.

I hope that enough people will remain rational and urge elected officials to protect the vulnerable from what is likely to come. Keep in mind that two of the big AI players (Google and Meta) make most of their money from ad revenue. They are 1000% incentivized to skirt the line of bad behavior outside of regulations.

https://www.allplay.com/board-games/the-defenders-almanac/

An extensive illustrated guidebook to the besieged lands of the Commonwood and a rules-light tabletop roleplaying game for collaboratively telling short stories of animal resistance to the machine invasion ~ from T.L. Simons, creator of Defenders of the Wild and Bloc by Bloc with fantasy author Margaret Killjoy, game designer Henry Audubon, illustrator Meg Lemieur, and writer Patricia Noonan

Anyone played it? Got any tips? I realise it's pretty recent, so maybe not..

I'm about to start a session with a new gaming group (of old friends). I'm new to DMing and TTRPGs in general (have played one session of pathfinder), two of my 4 players have a fair bit of experience playing and DMing.

I realise this is way more rules-light than pathfinder, though that's probably not saying much - it also seems a fair bit lighter even than some PbtA based games I've looked at..

General advice for DMing rulse-light RPGs also welcome :)

Some games are complicated - they have really complex rules. Examples of this are games where you have to track many different types of tokens, with different rules for each.

Other games have really simple rules, but still manage to produce extreme complexity in they way they are played.

Go is the perfect example of this. It literally has 2-3 rules, but because you can play anywhere, the complexity it can produce is wide and deep, to the point that tomes have been written on how to play it.

What other boardgames exist that have very simple rules, but produce complex and interesting game play?

Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-23/nsw-floods-live-updates-weather-warnings/105326094#live-blog-post-183316

I've been getting in to sampling more over the last couple of years, as I've moved to focus more on hip-hop. Really keen on grungy boom-bap beats, and I'm enjoying the workflow of having samples limit my knob tweaking.

I do find actually finding samples a struggle sometimes, and also knowing how and where to use them. Trial and error works, eventually, but sometimes the error part drags on and gets a bit off-putting. So I'm wondering about approaches or ways of thinking about it that might improve my hit rate.

Any thoughts/tips/questions/rants?

Edit: to be clear, I'm not only interest in hip-hop, or hip-hop suitable sampling approaches. I'm interested in sampling methods for any scenario.

I know there are some good memorisation techniques for remembering small sets of thing, like the memory palace method. But I don't think that's suitable for remembering lots of words.

I have a few use-cases:

1. Remembering lots of celebrity names, for trivia
2. Remembering lyrics for songs while singing
3. General vocabulary building, for rhyme writing.

Are there any techniques that might work for any of these? In general, I'm less worried about remembering a small number of things well, and more interested in learning a lot of things, so I have more to reach for in the moment.

Would anyone else be interested in a "making hip-hop" community?

Considering how small Lemmy still is, I reckon it would be best to include multiple aspects - music production, rapping, freestyling, turntablism/scratching, beatboxing. Could always split some of those out into separate communities later if needed.

I would see it as a complement to the !hiphopheads@sopuli.xyz community, but more focused on how to make, rather than sharing cool stuff others have made.

If you're not middle aged, pick a younger age, IDK

I often come across ideas for new communities (sometimes I even have them myself), but I'm not always sure whether they would get traction.

How about a "suggest a community" community, where people can post suggestions, and get feedback on the idea, maybe tweak it a bit to be more useful, and also look for co-moderators?

It could act in parallel to !newcommunities@lemmy.world

Anyone have any ideas for how this could work better? Anyone want to co-moderate one?

A few observations about this community:

• Most posts are economics-related news posts
• not many (recent) posts about actual economics (though I haven't read many of the news posts, I'm guessing most don't go into much depth on the economic implications)
• No description in the sidebar
• No mods

I'd be pretty keen on a more theoretical economics community. Would it make sense to have a separate economic_theory community? Or would it be better to make a separate economic_news community?

Does anyone want to mod this community? Perhaps @MicroWave@lemmy.world or @cm0002@lemmy.world , since you two post a lot?