> threw their hard-won reputational gains off a cliff for _nothing_

I imagine some executive’s ego was spared by not telling them their idea was bad. Priceless.

Zocchi retired, but his company charmingly continues.

https://www.gamescience.com/about-1

(Note: the sprue left by his sharp-edged process has since been proven to result in more bias than the tumbling undergone by the round-edged process.)

The cooperation of allies is more powerful than all of that, and the US is woodchipping their allies as fast as possible. Their power will disappear astonishingly quickly.

Maybe, but being close to the US is very valuable. Can't imagine every leader out there is going to hamstring their own economy to poopoo on whoever becomes president after Trump.

There’s just absolutely no comparison between one senile president who maintained our democracy and another senile president who loudly, proudly, and rapidly destroyed it.

No comparison, folks. What can you do?

It was bought by Microsoft and declined, yes.

“I would argue that…” is a weaker statement, because it ends with an implied “…but since I don’t care that much, I’m not ‘seriously’ arguing that.” It’s not at all equivalent to the strong statement “I argue that…”, which has no such qualifier.

Why cure yourself of useful conversational nuance?

In my view, another example would be Gautama Buddha, with Dependent Origination. It’s basically a super early realisation of Process Philosophy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prat%C4%ABtyasamutp%C4%81da https://iep.utm.edu/processp/

Edit: but even it likely relied on his prior experience with nondualistic Hinduisms, of course.

If it tried to play Balatro using knowledge of, e.g., poker, it would lose badly rather than win. Have you played?

I think I weakly disagree. Poker players have intuitive sense of the statistics of various hand types showing up, for instance, and that can be a useful clue as to which build types are promising.

>Poker players have intuitive sense of the statistics of various hand types showing up, for instance, and that can be a useful clue as to which build types are promising.

Maybe in the early rounds, but deck fixing (e.g. Hanged Man, Immolate, Trading Card, DNA, etc) quickly changes that. Especially when pushing for "secret" hands like the 5 of a kind, flush 5, or flush house.

It’s a lot easier to keep your values when you aren’t literally waiting for and counting on the billion dollar check, though.