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I made a person seven years ago. They started out pretty useless, just eating and pooping and crying a lot. But now they can walk, talk, think, read, write, act, sing, and love.

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Almost old enough to send into the mines and start paying rent!

Minecraft has definitely proved that the children yearn for the mines.

For my kids, at least (ages 5-12), "clicker" games are all the rage right now, as well as repetitive mining and harvesting in Minecraft.

I mean, when were we their age, we were playing lots of Diablo...

This joke is funny because no one currently living has to make this choice.

Oh they do, but now it's in the name of electrification .

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/03/child-la...

Let me assure you that child labor still exists for all of the traditional reasons as well.

I was going to post the same example of cobalt in the Congo.

::cough:: https://www.epi.org/blog/iowa-governor-signs-one-of-the-most...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-...

I found that V2 was much harder from an orchestration and toil point of view.

I agree, the scale problems seem to outweigh the scale economies at N=2. At some point you get positive network effects where the older ones contribute to the care of the younger ones, but so far we mainly observe a lot of resource contention with frequent livelock exceptions requiring intervention by the parent processes.

At N=4, I have observed substantial reduction in required average per unit parental engagement. However, we found that parental unit genetics increased the probability of encountering a different instruction set (autism), which involves recompiling a large fraction of the standard library for one unit.

My wife also says this, but I’m fond of pointing out that she didn’t create our children, they created themselves!

Right, you just provided seed capital.

Pah, amateur. I made two at once.

Well ok, my wife did most of it, but I was definitely a contributing maker.

"instigating" you mean?!

also came here to say, "my kids!"

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