What about the other though.

I’m against US imperialism.

So I believe the only truth must be either the perfect opposite of what they are saying, or the propaganda of their adversaries.

eventually I’m sure it will. at least within windows I think it’s safe to assume if it’s on the screen, it’s a candidate for AI control.

I mean easy enough to recreate it with a more open database, but yeah key issue is userbase. Same flaw with trying to make a better dating site, or anything else location specific. It’s barely feasible for things like lemmy and mastadon where we pull from international pools of people that mostly don’t care if the other users are 500 miles away.

When you try to do a facebook equivelant, doesn’t really go anywhere because, people don’t need just people, but people they actually know.

and yeah trying to get “people in the same city”.

as obviously one guy just reporting the gas stations around him, for an application that only he uses, is just a fancy notebook, and the real problem is would he continue using it long enough for a second to appear and make it actually beneficial for anyone.

Doubly so factoring in it’s right now at a time when, hardware costs are skyrocketing. Getting a PC with the same specs as the one I bought in 2023, is almost double the price today. Even steam machines and consoles are delaying themselves because they can’t find a way to release at a reasonable price point.

Everyone has basically been told “3 months ago was the last time to buy a computer for a while until either the AI bubble pops, or some magical huge increase in manufacturing happens to keep up with demand”. Point is this is literally the worse time in history to tell people to go buy a new PC.

They’re working their way towards being as bad as we are! and they aren’t as good at marketing to try to convince people it’s to find lost dogs.

I’m assuming just they don’t have access or want to take a side, or reliability for it. IE the groups making the cracks don’t want the added legal risks of providing the actual game files themselves. So if joe makes the crack but doesn’t want to risk sending the software, then that means it’s up to someone else to provide the software without the crack.

Too inaccurate, Toddler throws a tantrum because someone wouldn’t give him a toy. Anthropic started the contract with the rules in place to begin with.

No not really, they are cutting the lesser evil so they can go with the greater evil. In short, Claude won’t fire their weapons for them, so mechahitler gets the trigger.

I fricking hate that that’s the sounds of things though… the mainstream hardware becomes just enough to run remote desktop consumer hardware will no longer be produced at scale… meaning not only won’t we be able to upgrade or get new hardware… but the old hardware will constantly go up in price as it becomes more scarce harder to find. We’ll own nothing and pay through the nose to continue to access everything.

Well yeah but no shortage of games have to be changed in order to cross country lines. Sometimes in small ways sometimes in huge ways. Off the top of my head the pokemon Jynx/Rugela for instance used to look very much like blackface. They had to change it’s color from black to purple to make it acceptable in the US. Or say Vivian in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year door, Vivian was a trans woman, but they modified it in the original english version. (though it was later added back in the remake)

Hell wolfenstein managed to sell in germany with a “remove all references to nazi’s” requirement.

Point being, video games are no strangers to removing things they too controversial in a place they ship to.

True, but the point of the simulations is basically debunking the idea that even when capitalism “works”. IE the hypothetical perfect scenereo where everyone starts off with the same, has the same chances of getting good and bad opprotunities, that the the fairness systematically fades out of the system the longer the game runs.

I recall an economics class once where they started out playing monopoly, but giving everyone different starting amounts of money… and basically demonstrating that well over 90% of the time… the advantages basically determined the game.

Realistically the everyone starts at a different value, is far more realistic to life… but even when you remove that realism, it still ends the same way, one person starts taking a lead… and that that inequality only grows the longer the game continues.

Another simulation… that’s mainstream in american society… Landlords Game – IE what’s now Monopoly. By definition everyone starts with the same amount of money, and it ends with one person massively ahead and everyone else going bankrupt.

The point is whether or not it happens, as a parable it’s validity is sound. Point is, if even if the current government has nothing but good intentions and would never use the information to do anything you don’t agree with, and you are in perfect agreement with the current government. There is always the risk of either the government changing or someone stealing the information from the government that could weaponize it in ways you would never want.

what’s crazy to me is the people who defend this type of stuff, are the ones that are also terrified of gun registration… because you know if one day a gun ban were put in place, having a list of where all the guns are would make confiscation easy and legal. But they don’t realize that it’s just as likely for them to hunt people who spoke out against the government, or were the wrong race… or hell, just possibly see that you have a gun because you took it home on a ring cam.

I can’t think of anything, that’s kind of the options isn’t it? Buy your neighbors switchbots or reolink cameras as a gift? Them switching by choice is persuasion… forcing them to switch without giving them a choice is vandalism. I can’t fathom a 3rd category, unless you can like… sue the hell out of amazon and force a recall, but pretty sure the legal system doesn’t work that way.

I believe chaos creates that smile… I think it’s a reference to the old troll face memes.

you can use voice and video rooms to my understanding of it, and yeah it can do calls. I haven’t really tested it much as my matrix server is just me and my wife, and neither of us are often out of eachothers sites very long.

True, I guess the process is the studios have deals/threats to sue the ISPs if they don’t do it.

Either way regardless of their reason or motives. The ISP is the one that’s in charge of sending the threat and dealing the punishment, and again the key point is (again region may vary, do research on your ISP), but typically they send a warning first. So in short, if you just want to get started quickly, you can just start torrenting with no VPN (you should probably seed things for as little time as possible), and hope you can afford a VPN before you get the threatening letter, if you do get the threatening letter… then stop all peer 2 peer based piracy until you can afford to do it safer.

True, I suppose maybe there’s an alternate route… like allowing WW1 to happen, but perhaps, finding a way to change the Treaty of Versailles to be less punative and leave more room for economic growth.

Of course there’s so many variables still. Without nukes being used in ww2, would the cold war have stayed so cold.

Also worth noting with that definition of time travel, logically it would seem, time travel would be self eliminating.

IE, I go back in time, stop whatever I would consider the worse event in history… thus putting the world on a trajectory where myself or whoever invented the time machine no longer happens, leading to someone else inventing it, going back for a different reason, also changing the trajectory of history also eliminating the events leading to his time machine’s creation. Effectively the dice keep re-rolling until we get a world where the time machine is either not invented or not used, most probably early human extinction.

At first I thought you meant that killing hitler would effectively kill everyone born after hitler since the conditions of their birth didn’t exist anymore.

Well I would say, actually a really good point there, though I wouldn’t say “everyone born after hitler”, I guess really depends on one if WW2 happens. IE you kill hitler, but Heinrich Himmler lead the nazi party and history played very similarly. then you could expect possibly generations to unfold almost identically to the original timeline.

But yeah it’s the variation of the art career concept, except that I find the premise that hitlers actions were the cause… Fascism and Hitler were, a symptom of a broken country. Prevent the collapse, and the germans don’t vote for Hitler.