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Sid Nagy

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  1. Mentor bots for newbies can be a great addition for instance. But if they pop up in everyday SL without being easily recognizable as NPC's, no thanks.
  2. SL has 20 years of history on it's shoulders. Including many mistakes that can't be easily repaired. People have to learn too much in a short time, if they want to do something sensible with SL. So a lot is learned only partly and sloppy. That will not change any time soon IMHO.
  3. The apartment complex where I live in RL is owned by a home owner association. Each apartment owner owns an equal part of the building. Everything is decided at owner's meetings. Biggest problem every time: to get enough owners at the meeting to even be able to make decisions. A certain quota is needed to be present by law. And than we are not talking about peanut ownership of part of a sim, but 150 - 200K Euro apartments in RL. A lot of owners could not care less, and only participate in gallery gossip talk about how things should be handled. This is not a good idea for SL IMHO.
  4. I don't know what they pay today either. I have a number from years ago too. If someone was a Mole as a hobby in that time, it was a nice compensation for the time invested. If one considered being a Mole as a RL job, not so much IMHO. But they might have changed it all over the years. So yeah, I agree asking directly is the best way if one is interested in a Mole function.
  5. Damn, that is serious stuff that you have to deal with. I now can see, why switching of RL is hard for you when you go into SL. But still give it a try, it can be worth it. Second Life helps me forget my physical limitations for a few hours too at times. Sadly not always. At days that I'm depressed in RL, it is hard to leave that behind in SL. Life simply really sucks at times.
  6. My 2 cents: Don't compare yourself too much with others. SL is IMHO about having fun for yourself with what you do, not if you have the same or better results than others. I'm a builder and merchant in SL. Am I the best builder in SL? No. Am I a top seller? No. Will I ever become the best builder in SL? No. Do I enjoy building? Yes. So I simply do it and enjoy it, even though I'm not the ace in the pack and never will be. Is every day in SL a success? Nooooooooooooooo. There are weeks and weeks that nothing seems to work out. Then I do other things inside or outside of SL until inspiration is back. Do what you like to do, without forcing yourself to become the best. Enjoy being who you are. No need for constant improvement. The rat race is something for RL. In my experience one tiny step at the time is enough to have fun in SL.
  7. The fear for the LL Implementation Routines™ .....
  8. SL is a vanity platform. So one only can exaggerate what people like about bodies, but not what they don't particularly like.
  9. So the Lab is so embarrassed about what they pay, that they have to put it under protection of a NDA? I know what they payed a few years ago, and I would be embarrassed too if it was me hiring. The Moles are worth their weight in gold for the Lab. But that is not exactly what they payed back then.
  10. Thankfully that is something from the past here too. For many years already. Educating, teaching and raising a kid is very well possible without those barbaric methods.
  11. There is a law in the Netherlands since a few months, that officially gives schools the right to forbid students to take a phone into the classroom. Confiscating them is legal, destroying them of course not. I would opt for returning them to the parents only. They will get peeved about their kids phone behavior real quick then, I guess.
  12. AI will play a part in education in the future, no doubt about that. Maybe even a big part. But AI will not make the teacher profession obsolete any time soon either. It might change the requirements to become a good teacher but that is a whole different story.
  13. And yes, tier payment in L$ is not possible. L$ have no real value for the Lab.
  14. That makes sense. But on the other hand: Kudos for them if they can make a business plan out of it. But collecting all the land means paying a lot up front. If they want to do this they are better of going into the private estate business already I guess.
  15. Mainland 2.0 could really fill the gab between the anarchy on traditional Mainland and the very strict and somewhat limited house choices in Bellisseria. And it could have a simplified tier system as well: 1. get a plus or premium plan 2. Find an available plot of the desired size in the desired theme. (Every plot gets a tier meter, it says Available when available) 3. Click on the land and "buy" it for first weeks tier. 4. Tier meter shows 1 week payed automatically and Available sign is vanished (What a wizards). 5. Land is yours as long as you stay within covenant (only serious breaches will remove you otherwise you get a friendly warning first as first time offender) AND as long as there is time left on the tier meter (so don't forget to pay the meter in time) 6. If you want another plot (bigger, smaller, other theme, other spot) no longer pay the tier meter. When it is at 0 your plot will be abandoned automatically. Simply rinse and repeat the steps above. 7. If you want more plots: pay more tier meters. It would be doable without a lot of reprogramming IMHO, if LL would be interested to give it a try. And Moles could take care of the landscaping and other stuff just like in Belli.
  16. We will speak to each other in 2050 to see who was right. Okay? I will be 92 then, but I will hang on, so we can see who was right.
  17. But now at work there is only fun and happyness? School is hard work for children, while they want to do anything but being in a classroom. Some children are very hard to motivate, not 2 of them are the same. Some children love to read, others despise it. Every now and then there is one in a class who despises everything that is school related. There are a few kids with disorders in almost every class. There are kids who have a terrible time at home. That all makes teaching very complex, and I even left out a lot (most). AI can support teachers, but never replace them any time soon.
  18. Peeve: People who think that teaching is so easy that a machine can easily take over. Yeah right. I heard the stories all before, but then it were the PC's who would make teachers obsolete.
  19. Knowledge and producing that knowledge in small digestible portions at the right time, is only a part of teaching. Teaching is far more complex than that. AI will not take over from educators any time soon, I have no doubt about that. Machines that are AI driven can become helpful tools in schools though and take over specific tasks, just like computers do for a few decades already.
  20. My sales on the MP are slightly up compared to last year. The in world shop that I opened is still dead in the water. 2 Sales since the opening in January. Maybe I have to rethink the used keywords and keyword combinations.
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