u/ooof_buddy

Honestly, I am really tired of looking at posts and seeing some sort of immediate judgement that makes that person "unworthy" of your opinion. This is usually due to a lack of linguistic skills, but repeatedly pointing this out in the comments doesn't help anyone. As academics, part of our job is to educate people, not count them out because they cannot differentiate between variations of our/are.

I'm a neuroscientist, and (I'd hope at least) we understand that education level and past personal history have a heavy impact on the way people socialize, especially on Reddit (a site that people think they can post incognito on.) I am so tired of working with academics, who present as very understanding and willing to work with people, just to go on social media and see people asking for help, to which they then receive rude responses. I just don't understand how, as educators, people can be so harsh. This very much seems to me as a situation where, if you cannot say anything helpful, you would just refrain; yet I regularly see people stating they have PhDs, claiming they cannot understand colloquialisms even if they specialize in something within the humanities, and then being rude to people. Tbh, if your reading level is so "advanced" and you work with normal people, not understanding colloquial language is your fault. You're the one with the higher-level understanding from your interpretation, and as such, it is logical to me that you would be picking up part of the work if you care about the betterment of society.

Also, to add, if you don't have the patience for dealing with students who have "above-average" risks, please don't be an educator; our job is to do our best to help anyone who asks, in any circumstances (imo). There are reasonable limits, of course, but I'm honestly so sick of hearing about how groups have literally any problem with their diversity pool in their applicant process while, at the same time, people are actively discriminating against low-SES people. Take the time to consider where your judgement is coming from. Please. I've been on reddit for a hot minute and have more issues with the morality of posts in this sub than the memes I see most of the time (I've taken neuroscience PhD-level ethics courses for those curious. Got an A.). Part of our job is to bridge the gap, not shame those who happen to be on the wrong side of it.

So I'm a scientist full time, and when I've been in a rough spot I have done the remote scientist AI training freelance stuff for some extra money. Due to this, I've finally gotten to a point where I'm somewhat in this boat, as my boss wants me to check with AI about things (which I hate btw), but the AI people will pay me to ask that type of question, explain the correct answer, and how the models dont do well at answering the question. This feels like basically what I need to do to explain to my boss why we shouldn't trust AI to be accurate, and getting double paid for something like that seems too good to be true. Lol.

And before anyone gets on me for working with AI, I think it could be an amazing tool in science for the right applications. I'm picky on what I'll do just by choice, but if my boss specifically tells me to ask an AI about something, and it lines up with freelance stuff, I see it as 2 reasons to explain how the AI couldnt answer my question well.

I've spent probably far more time on this game than i should have, and so far the main thing I think would really improve on the game is some sort filter so dropped resources showing up on the peep.r.

Just for building upgrades at the minimum, this would make it so much easier to upgrade without worrying about losing the lint rope you put into the bed you no longer want when you recycle it. I'm on the playtest so I know my opinion may be somewhat skewed there, but the game is built for progression and I'd spend a lot more time on early builds if I knew the chances of losing resources was low.

I also think it'd be cool for other things to show up when they are a freshly dropped resource from harvesting. I'd rather not have to add something like rust to my resource finder to be able to chase the pieces down everytime, and i could see this helping for people that need to make sure they dont have too many resources sitting around for their computer to handle. Tbh, this is more of a side note to me though. I build a lot. Lol