I don’t think so… I honestly think the direction anyone supporting the AI bubble wants, is going to be streaming games. You won’t run them on the PC… they will run out of a data center and your inputs will go back ot the data center, You’ll own nothing, you’ll adapt to paying a subscription price for single player games, hell instead of monthly you could pay by the hour or minute.

Yeah I think that’s the question. in short it’s fishing for a way to make it profitable, whole concept is when we pour enough money, servers, research etc… into it, eventually it will start making money faster than we put into it, and so far, that’s not been proven. Que old image of guys digging for diamonds, one walking away just before hitting the diamond jackpot, the other blindly charging towards it.

and of course just like reality, there’s no actual way to know if there’s even any diamonds… just that we haven’t found them yet.

The big concept is that you should own your “copy” of a game. IE I own my car, I can drill a hole in it, I can paint it a different color. I may or may not have to follow certain rules of what modifications I do on it to drive it on streets which is pretty reasonable, but if I want to use it in my backyard I can.

Now yes that doesn’t mean if say 3D printers were able to perfectly fabricate something like a car, that I could say make a fully functioning form of the car with whatever patented designs etc… the car manufacturer has on it and sell or give them away in bulk.

I do suppose that’s the one area where digital and physical create some divide. IE digital by definition has to be duplicated to be modified. hell technically it’s duplicated just to be used (as even a physical disk is copied to system memory over the course of playing it).

IMO I feel like a pretty fair rules set could be drafted for digital property.

IE a pretty simple digital items bill of rights:

You have a right to use a digital item on any device you own capable of playing it.

You have a right to modify it in any way shape or form you are capable of doing.

Games that either require, or have a significant portion of their gameplay that depends on a remote server, should have a declared date of which the servers are promised to be online till at the time of purchase, if the servers shut down prior to that declared date you should be entitled to a refund. (IE as that date approaches developers can either move that date further forward, or their buyers can be aware that the EOL of the game is not far),

Modifying your games either to run on any other hardware etc… should be allowed, copying to multiple devices that you own should be allowed, however developers have a right to refuse to allow modified games to connect to their servers.

I think the key point is, it’s not hard to write a digital property ownership ruleset, that covers almost any thinkable case, and allows a reasonable form of “ownership” of a digital item.

well yes but generally speaking with regards to porn, the most common time porn is “illegal” is at least currently almost always for reasons that almost everyone would agree on morally. Admitted, the current direction of the US is working on regulating/restricting porn between consenting adults, and just had that abysmal ruling that AI created CSAM is probably OK. Right on the heels of discovery that Grok has somehow trained on CSAM.

So in other words, AI is just cheap exploited labor from impoverished people, with extra pollution steps.

draw a mural that includes all the things that make santa clarita famous. Of which a google search would have most likely said it’s near the beach, has a six flags, and is a prime movie shooting location.

And yeah you know how good something is when you push it on people.

Honestly I’m kind of baffled that big tech seems to have such a long history of the opposite working in usage.

IE facebook - started off exclusive to specific colleges, gradually rolled out to all colleges, then to the general population. IMO the long timeframe of “it’s out there but you can’t have it”, was marketing brilliance that made people demand it.

gmail - google announced it on april 1st, to make people think it wasn’t even real, Did a slow gradual rollout in which a relatively small pool could get accounts, then had their existing members be able to invite others. People sold their invites on ebay and similar, the demand was through the roof for them.

Google plus. Now you’d think google having both of those examples would have done the math… Nope "Hey you already have a gmail account, we decided you should use google plus too!, Your account is there. Hey we’ve tweaked your youtube account to use your real name so that you can already be ready to combine it with your google plus account! Hey USE GOOGLE PLUS NOW IT’S GREAT!!!

IMO google plus was as ahead of facebook at the time as facebook was ahead of myspace. Hell I’d still say it’s prime features make it actually usable in ways facebook never became capable of (circles as a core feature was IMO was the thing to make it perfectly usable. IE every post set so you can have friends that say care about video games, or dogs, or have compatible politics etc…, and effortlessly post to that group without annoying or starting a fight with others). But it’s nature of telling people what to do… was a huge drawback. MS’s products are seemingly doing that even more, admitted part of it is just the automatic built in drawback of being “microsoft”, I don’t think anyone hears the name microsoft and thinks “this is going to be a product that I WANT to run”.

But I think the bottom line is, when you are telling the users they want to use it… you’ve pretty much already lost.

I’d say the target audience of newspaper comic Arlo and Janis readers, they were intended to be a boomer comic when the comic strip launched in 1985. obviously like almost all comic strips, the characters haven’t aged so, when the comic strip was written they were boomers in 1985.

It is worth noting that the comic specifically is noted as being kind of a reversal of normal boomer humor, as the normal tropes of comedy in that era was more on being annoyed with your spouse etc… and it more often actually made the relationship mostly healthy.

I’d hope, but basically they are only protecting downloading, for the most part 99% of piracy prosecution has already shifted focus to uploading, and really the focus is far more on the companies hosting etc… because they learned in the napster era that suing grandmothers and children doesn’t really win the PR wars.

Now the real question of the survivorship bias, you are seeing less AI, but there’s 2 possible reasons for that.

1. The AI has gotten better and harder to identify.

2. Your brain has degraded due to excessive presence of AI and reduced air and food quality and thus is worse at identifying AI.

Well yeah I’m more than aware that many of the programs that were shut down mid studies, could have an insane amount of work that can’t just be paused and picked back up in the middle, only talking about the data sets that are being explicitly deleted or changed, of which I can’t imagine there’s not enough version control and redundancy in the government that shouldn’t make it possible to return a data set to the exact form it was on an exact day.

Something that just confuses me… this stuff should be backed up right? shouldn’t this stuff be put in in a means that, a competent administration down the line can pull from backups.

it wasn’t intended to be a study on what’s right or wrong to have or what not, the point is simply that, going with a less likely to be brought up country say France. If for some nation were to launch an invasion on france. They wouldn’t be bothering to compare their quantity of tanks, aircraft carriers etc… are present, as that tier is in and of itself a factor.

Or to go purely into fictional, you could say talk about anime characters like

Mob from Mob Psycho, Gojo from Jujitsu Kaisen, Reinhart from re:zero, Saitama from one punch man etc… Characters that are so overwhelmingly ahead of everything else, that any other character in the battle is basically cosmetic. IE it’s not just that they are better than the D-A tier characters, It’s that they are so much better that it’s laughable to think that all the A tier characters teaming up would come close to making a fair fight for them.

The rest are just normal ranking, IE in order of their tier, In english sometimes they to give them meanings “advanced, basic, competent” but generally that’s a forced on to it. Typically it’s just an alternative to doing 1st, 2nd, 3rd category. “S” meant is to imply it’s so good it’s not the best category, it’s so far ahead that it’s not fair to compare the A tier to it. Like say when talking about military strength in the real world, having nuclear weapons is a whole separate category. IE there’s no bother to question how many tanks or bombs it would take to invade north korea, because the mere potential of them to launch a couple of nukes if threatened, is enough to prevent anyone from taking their plans past the most basic hypothetical stage.

usually special or super.

Worth pointing out, Nimrod wasn’t an insult until bugs bunny used it sarcastically at Elmer Fudd, and a generation of viewers didn’t get the reference and just assumed it as an alternative for idiot.

basically all arosol’s do that as well, same for pam and just about every other spray, and yeah it’s shady as hell, it’s much like tictac’s are technically sugar free… in spite of being 90% sugar, because their serving size is 1 piece.

They seem to fail to understand, the coersion is the only bad part. That’s like saying “things don’t change, some black people chose to work on farms, the coersion has gone but it’s still a problem”. No it’s not a problem, anyone should be allowed to choose to be a farmer.

I’ll consider giving support after there’s a wave of police getting held accountable for abuses, and headlines of the police unions demanding for flock cameras to be taken down. However I’m not holding my breath.

For now it seems like they are just supposedly adding ways to possibly catch cops who are, using the cameras for illegal stuff like spying on swimming pools, yoga classes, or stalking ex’s…

I guess I understand your overall point It’s probably valid to say that phones shouldn’t be (though I suppose not against the law due to the laws not keeping up with the evolution of celphones).

I’d say smart glasses are in their current form, currently just a shock, because it’s their primary purpose. That’s basically why google glass flopped so spectacularly and the term “glasshole” followed their release almost instantly. Celphones do absolutely have the capacity to be turned into a spy device, even by accident or outside the owners control much like smart glasses. But I suppose the transition from snap shut flip phones to smart phones was kind of the slow burn that kind of made it not heavily thought up.

I do agree with the initial key point, IE smart glasses inherently make people feel uncomfortable and it’s basically waving in their face that they could be recorded at a moments notice if they aren’t already. It’s like technically I know that anyone I talk to, could have a concealed carry permit and may have a gun hidden on their person… but I’d feel far more unsafe being around someone with an AR15 strapped on him.