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SkyeStarfall ,

Unfortunately, large-scale systems change slowly due to inertia and the distances involved. Unless you introduce extreme amounts of energy like the dinosaur killing meteor.

Even then it’s happening ridiculously fast considering changes of this scale typically happen over tens of thousands of years at least.

SkyeStarfall ,

It really does feel like we’re not really built for doing more or less the same thing, for most/half of our days, for 40+ years.

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SkyeStarfall ,

Graphene actually is used in small amounts in a few places today. The difficulty is still in scaling up production.

I won’t really know which computer storage technologies you’re referring to. There are plenty of different ones, most of them just have niche applications or are too expensive to replace today’s SSDs for general use, as SSD technology have gone a long way. It’s a similar story to batteries, honestly. Lithium is still just the cheapest for what it does, but alternatives for niche applications exist.

Fusion needs more funding, no way around that, otherwise the theory is sound.

But of course, it is true there’s tons of clickbait. But promising new developments do exist.

Wait, is Unity allowed to just change its fee structure like that? | Confusing, contradictory terms of service clauses leave potential opening for lawsuits. (arstechnica.com)

Wait, is Unity allowed to just change its fee structure like that? | Confusing, contradictory terms of service clauses leave potential opening for lawsuits.::Confusing, contradictory terms of service clauses leave potential opening for lawsuits.

SkyeStarfall ,

It’s unlikely a lecturer will change the course material this quickly. There’s a lot of planning and work that goes into a class. They probably will change strategy for the next semester, though.

In addition, game dev is game dev. The skills are 90% transferrable. A university class (should, at least) will teach you about the foundational and general concepts, using a game engine like unity to put theory into practice. Classes generally don’t use and teach a tool to teach how to use that tool specifically, but to teach something more general/foundational, that will be useful in the future no matter how the tech landscape changes.

SkyeStarfall ,

People are free to continue using proprietary software, but you can’t then continue to complain when they inevitably do another shitty thing in the name of profit.

No wonder people are promoting FOSS, what else do you want to happen? I really don’t get why people are so hostile to FOSS, it’s literally for your own long-term benefit. How many more projects have to enshittify before people get it?

SkyeStarfall ,

“AI is whatever haven’t been done yet”

SkyeStarfall ,

Unless you own a lot of stock yourself, this isn’t necessarily false. At least this is debatable.

SkyeStarfall ,

Yeah, none of us are unbiased. Literally. There is simply too much to know, and the world is far too complex, with too many unanswered questions/problems, to judge things without bias.

Even something as “simple” as ethics, has no objective answers as far as we know. And when people can disagree on ethics, you know, the very foundation of what is considered bad and good, how can you ever be truly unbiased?

The next best thing you can do, is being almost conciously biased. Find your moral framework and ideology (and the status quo very much is ideological as well), and criticize it and yourself to the highest degree. You won’t be unbiased, but maybe you can get something productive going.

SkyeStarfall ,

Wait a decade and AR might be popping off

SkyeStarfall ,

I don’t really know what google has said, I wasn’t really referring to them, but AR is plenty used in industry already.

There’s just some way to go left for consumer use, but we are getting there. 5G networks are also supposed to help our with the possibility, due to their increased capabilities.

Consumer grade AR is being worked on, and it is expected to become a big thing eventually.

SkyeStarfall ,

Those are all technical reasons though. Aesthetics are limited by the technology. And the glasses calling home more than it should is also a technical and regulatory reason.

It can absolutely be done while sidestepping all the concerns. Or better yet, have glasses running FOSS software.

But sure, those concerns are reasonable, but they are not fundamental to the technology itself, but to our societal reality. That stuff won’t get fixed by avoiding technology, only by societal change. And you can be sure that all kinds of stuff will be pushed into people if that societal change doesn’t happen, no matter whether it’s AR or not. (Just look at the recent trend of enshittification of everything).

SkyeStarfall ,

I was referring to the concerns about privacy. In addition, when I say “to the technology itself” I am referring to AR in its ideal form.

…also XR technologies are absolutely technically feasible. They’re not even that extravagant these days. The fundamentals are in place, and used.

SkyeStarfall ,

Saying that XR technologies don’t make good consumer products is weird considering consumer VR products already exist and are used but alright.

…and why do you think that AR glasses have to be at least 1kg in weight?? That’s like saying laptops (or smartphones for that matter) will never be a mainstream product because nobody would want to lug around a 30kg machine. The smartphone I’m typing this on already weights just 150g.

We are still quite far from the limits of physics, and there are plenty of upcoming technologies which will allow to reduce weight.

SkyeStarfall ,

Used drugs… ever??

That sounds quite absurd honestly. So who would be left to even own guns? People who never even touched alcohol once in their life? I feel like that’s almost nobody left in the US.

SkyeStarfall ,

It’s enshittification all the way down

SkyeStarfall ,

Or maybe they’re just military secrets

You know, like they have been in the past.

SkyeStarfall ,

So they break our understanding of physics, but we are able to shoot them down?

And they have been showing themselves, just out of sight, for decades? Without any other effects?

If they’re aliens capable of interstellar travel, then they really suck at utilizing their technology, which would be far far more advanced than ours. Or they’re doing this intentionally, which also would make no sense. Other explanations are far simpler and more plausible.

The reason people mock this is because people go to the most outrageous conclusions before anything more reasonable, without sufficient proof to rule out simpler explanations. You know, a process which every other field of science uses.

SkyeStarfall ,

Figure out what it is? Sure, absolutely! But people are all jumping to the conclusions of aliens as soon as anything unknown is happening.

And for all we know, the US military may be intentionally trying to mislead the public, or whatever else. The US government already spies on everyone, it wouldn’t be out of character for them.

SkyeStarfall ,

You haven’t said they are aliens directly, just heavily implied it. One can clearly read that out from your comments.

SkyeStarfall ,

I live in a tiny apartment in the middle of a city.

Where the fuck would I make biochar.

SkyeStarfall ,

Don’t forget that solar panels also displace other energy sources, such as burning coal.

How much heat does that produce? And then there’s co2…

SkyeStarfall ,

In addition, the work is never fully lost.

If unity goes to shit, welp, cannot use any of unity’s code at all. Years and years of engine development wasted.

If some FOSS software goes to shit? That code is still there. Just take it and unshittify it. Little to no work wasted.

SkyeStarfall ,

What a weird statement. It’s not even that much text.

The anti-vax conspiracy is doing tons of harm on the world.

SkyeStarfall ,

Seems like every tech company lately

SkyeStarfall ,

Sounds like those game developers are about to become unemployable without further education

Also, I don’t really know how one can be a good developer without that necessary foundation. Maybe you can use a tool, but how would you know what to do with it…?

SkyeStarfall ,

I guess people expected our commercial world to work at least decently well

But the more time goes on the more that illusion is shattering.

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SkyeStarfall ,

On the other hand, most people who ended up getting a diagnosis for some form of neurodivergence had suspicions themselves before specifically asking to get tested. In my experience, medical professionals really are not looking out for stuff as much as they should.

I myself ended up getting a diagnosis as an adult after my own insistence at getting tested, despite how obvious it was my whole life.

SkyeStarfall ,

But developers like it, because it’s a sum of cash they get as guaranteed money, and epic gets exclusives as a result.

…and in the end, it’s just a launcher. At least you don’t have to buy a whole other dang console.

SkyeStarfall ,

Many organizations writing open source stuff are hiring people to work full-time. You might not earn as much as other places, but just because they are non-profits doesn’t mean they don’t have money or an income.

SkyeStarfall ,

If that isn’t a massive red flag, nothing else is.

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SkyeStarfall ,

He is one of the richest people in the world.

The more news about billionaires like this pop up, the easier it will be to argue that maaaaaaaybe we shouldn’t be giving them that much power in society.

SkyeStarfall ,

How much more powerful can he be? He’d be more powerful if he was more subtle about stuff and people weren’t ready to fight against him.

It’s much better to effectively use him as an argument for why billionaires shouldn’t exist. Fuel for the fire of change.

SkyeStarfall ,

Yes, in practice this would be a contract with the artist deciding whether the copyright is transferred or not.

Because by default, if you commission someone to draw something for you, they keep the copyright.

SkyeStarfall ,

I don’t see why you wouldn’t be able to keep copyright then. Everything involved would have been owned by you.

That is a big difference to how other generative models work though, which do use other people’s work.

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SkyeStarfall ,

When it comes to workplaces, you can expect people to deliberately craft a virus and/or try that break into your system specifically. A lot of the world runs on linux, a lot of hackers try to break in to this world.

For personal use it may be true enough to be fine in practice, but it’s a very dangerous thing to believe for a professional setting with probably expensive equipment and valuable data.

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SkyeStarfall ,

Well, it’s kinda what society forces us to do. There’s not exactly much of an alternative to interacting with companies for most things.

Whether it’s you livelihood, you home, your car, insurance, whatever

SkyeStarfall ,

male/female did always seem weird to me to call plugs. It would be better if they were just called insertive/receptive. It’s much more self-explanatory and appropriate.

SkyeStarfall ,

Apparently we as a society love people like him and reward him as much as we possibly can

Certainly puts a bright smile on my face /s

SkyeStarfall ,

Valve didn’t release it, just en ex-employee though, right?

And it wasn’t the script, just what that employee planned it to be.

SkyeStarfall ,

Maybe of a serial killer’s

SkyeStarfall ,

In what way? There are plenty other RPGs that I prefer over Bethesda games.

…and honestly, some of those are old school ones. I feel like there’s just some things always missing from Bethesda’s newer titles.

SkyeStarfall ,

Well… no. In fact, Is argue most people are not egoistic by nature.

But maybe many can be conditioned to become egoistic. Human nature is that we have no one nature. We’re very malleable. Power corrupts and all that.

SkyeStarfall ,

Uh, I mean, you can die at any one time without anything directly causing it. So no, it’s not necessarily common sense.

And spicy foods, even very spicy ones, are consumed daily without too much medically bad happening… certainly not more than, say, eating peanuts.

SkyeStarfall ,

Is it subjective maybe? Do some people like it?

SkyeStarfall ,

So may peanuts, but I don’t think we should label peanuts with “may cause death”?

There are too many nuances and exceptions to everything for such a warning to be meaningful. Most things can kill you, doesn’t mean they will unless you got some other medical condition or do something unreasonable.

SkyeStarfall ,

Probably machine learning models, as usual. Which may or may not be classified as AI.

Either way, useful in statistical problems like this.

Edit: reading the press release, yep, machine learning.

SkyeStarfall ,

Damn, bethesda ubisofted starfield

SkyeStarfall ,

Yes I support my position over others, what a revolutionary concept

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