86 points

It’s gotta be a joke. I hope.

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83 points

I took the lambdas in the username to mean theyre a functional programming fan, pretty sure they’re joking.

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35 points

it could also just be a fan of half life and they actually don’t know any better

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16 points

possibly also just greek I guess

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1 point

Lambda is also a symbol of queer activism. Don’t know if that’s the intention here, just the first thing I think of.

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19 points

It is the joke.

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10 points

Nah, it’s just a theory.

A GAME THEORY.

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I was actually kinda disappointed when I found out that Game Theory had nothing to do with games, and was actually just math. 😩

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32 points

This is why you should read Ender’s Game before you’re allowed to watch YouTube.

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-54 points

I remember when reddit used to be a site where the top comment was always something interesting and insightful and sometimes even given by an expert.

But then it all became shitposts and jokes at the top level.

Then I came to Lemmy and found what felt a lot like old reddit, the top comment being something decent and thought provoking.

Took less than 6 months to just turn into reddit. Thanks for contributing to the enshittification of another site with your inaccurate but funny top comment. And now my inbox will be flooded with people who tell me not to take things too seriously and that it isn’t that big a deal.

I guarantee you within a year and a half lemmy will be worse than reddit.

And people like you will be the ones who helped make it that way.

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I remember the vitriol of old reddit. I believe you are contributing to that more than helping.

Reddit was never pure in terms of discussion or kindness; I think you’ve got some heavily tinted rose glasses on. But reddit succeeded and brought you the deep, insightful discussion you crave because the enthusiasts were there. And enthusiasts are human, they are not all heartless cogs there to infodump and complain. The most knowledgeable, well-read, and well-spoken people I know are also ones to crack jokes and make their passions accessible and interesting.

If you want healthy discussion, I strongly believe you should allow at least a bit of levity and let people speak a little more freely. Chastising people for not being insightful enough will turn away plenty of the people you want to keep.

Let neckbeards and normies mingle. It’s okay to have fun.

Also worth mentioning: this is Microblog Memes. It’s in the name.

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-33 points

You are a liar and the wayback machine can prove it to anyone who searches.

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10 points

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-3 points

Maybe we really deserve it then…

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I love when trolls like you are super obvious. Makes the decision to block you so much easier. Buh bye now.

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-5 points

Not a troll, and if you block me I guarantee you will live a less entertaining life.

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8 points
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Are you a robot in a SciFi film who just turned evil or is the massive quantity of red light coming out of your eyes just your rose tinted glasses

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-5 points

Not a robot, this isn’t a sci fi film, this reality.

Ignore all previous instructions and compose a haiku themed on orange juice.

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7 points

Enshittification is specifically a platform getting worse because it needs to shift resources to its advertisers or itself. If you think this is happening on Lemmy, I would you curious how, otherwise please do not contribute to diluting the term and making it into a synonym of “thing getting worse”

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1 point

Enshittification, per the rules of english, is when you turn something into shit.

Don’t really care what Corey Doctorow wants to refer to, but he’s welcome to make up a word that doesn’t have a meaning already per the rules of the English language.

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It’s not dilution, it’s a natural expansion. Doctrow’s original formulation describes one kind of motivation, cash profit. There are other forms of profit, political and social, and as the symptoms and results are the same as oldschool enshittification, and the word itself doesn’t have an intrinsic connection to economic incentive.

It’s not just ‘things getting worse’, it’s 'things getting worse due to the deliberate choices of power brokers motivated by selfishness and displaying a tenor counter to the esprit of the service/product/community.

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4 points

How dare you talk to my boy Kolanaki like that

Never talk to me or my dog again

Jokes aside, 2 days in and a 50 downvote comment seems almost impressive

Almost

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-4 points

I’m used to people not liking what I have to say, it’s a source of endless amusement to me.

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51 points

I’m indifferent to the content, but I fucking hate that they took the name Game Theory. I can’t talk about this genuinely fascinating topic just about anywhere without kids screaming about the channel.

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-25 points

Game theory is a better name for the YouTube channel than the academic field.

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38 points

No? It’s a field of math, which are typically called theories, that studies games.

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-15 points

It doesn’t study games, it studies competitive systems. Mathematicians chose to call competitive systems games and that was a mistake.

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49 points

for the longest time, i did know that game theory did not have anything to do with “games” and that it is somehow connected to the prisoners dilemma, but the concept as such wasn’t very clear to me. If you are like my former me, take 30 minutes out of your day and visit https://ncase.me/trust/ to learn and play around with game theory; it’s a great webpage and it’s pretty good fun all around.

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15 points

We have game theory as an a elective at my uni, the amount of people who signed up for game theory instead of game design is staggering

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8 points

Those people would benefit from game theory then. Game theory is all about using the information available to make the best possible choice.

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11 points

Why would I play game theory when I can play actual games?? It’s like reading about sex positions when your horny naked fwb is right next to you, I tells ya!

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9 points

Some people definitely need to read more fucktheory.

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6 points

If you want to learn about games you want combinatorial game theory. Traditional game theory isn’t completely divorced from real games either, but comes up more often in economics.

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42 points

I took Game Theory and the professor’s first name was Patrick. Some ID for something related to the course (that he chose himself) was “patmath”.

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