I got my 75 year old father into video games.

With him, I started by getting him an xbox and an xbox live account (which allows playing multiplayer games online).

We play World of Tanks now together quite a bit.

Red light always infuriates me

Just attach light blub here

YES!

Yes milord!

Yes

what?

Once you’re 54, it’s just too late man

All I’ve heard about is some pistols found in a car parked nearby.

This is it, guys. Console gaming’s over now 🙄

Let’s be realistic. If it had been a coup attempt, they would have brought weapons.

To suggest that was an attempted coup, when nobody brought any weapons, is ridiculous.

That’s actually how you know they weren’t trying to take over: they didn’t bring guns.

So your belief is that it can’t happen because it would suck?

Sometimes people like it when others make choices for them.

This is tangentially related to what the eastern mystics call the “tao”.

Supereducated.

I’m saying: how did you get convinced, if not with evidence?

So you have a belief about Elon Musk, which you need to convince your father of.

But you don’t have any evidence or proof for this belief.

Does this raise any epistemic alarms in your head at all? Like … how did you form this belief?

Just a big json file? I’m down

Hard to say. That’s the problem.

A detectable bot problem is a solvable bot problem.

I suggested that he might set a recurring alarm and he refused on the basis that he goes to sleep at different times each night.

His job is at the same time every day! His bus is at the same time every day!

Fuck.

In fact, that’s core to the concept of an “image” at the most abstract level