Another wall to try and make it so only the rich corporations can make AI, what a shock.

This is what all the useful idiots bleating against ai have been working towards.

Sometimes I day dream about what I’d say if I was elons friend. There are a lot of things.

‘This company I like must secretly want us to hack their code because I am a good person and they are good people so we must think exactly the same!’

OK buddy, tell yourself what you need to.

It’s the best map for finding businesses in my town, well OSM which it uses is because I updated them all using street complete and the web interface. You can be part of the effort to make free solutions the best solutions by upgrading your own areas info.

You’re a very small fraction of the audience, it shouldn’t be surprising they focus on the majority who prefer online play as it adds a social element into an otherwise predictable and static environment.

As someone who loves ai I think this is a great approach

They haven’t relinquished independence, you need to improve your anti America trolling this is just silly.

You’re being silly tbh, Sweden is it’s own nation full of people with their own opinions, you can’t blame everything on America.

Sweden has its own complex reasons for making bad choices, they’re mot just sitting around hoping america tells them what to think.

I don’t know, I just listen on YouTube, it’s not got the useful features but it works

I would just like to take this moment to suggest people find a comfortable place to sit with a stiff drink, spliff or whatever and listen to the first chapter of the audio book - and I mean really listen, actively visualize the story and everything being described, let yourself really emotionally connect with the events as much as possible - it’s a really powerful and well written bit of action sci-fi.

It’s on YouTube read by Christopher Hurt, first chapter is about 40 min, I’ve read a lot of sci-fi and it’s without a doubt in my mind the strongest and most thought provoking opening to a Sci fi. It gets you pulled into the characters, the world, and emotion without a break in the action - and for a book punished in 1959 the action is unbelievably believable, it’s hard to imagine better high energy action sci-fi combat – someone needs to make a real gritty anime of it.

The point is the war must continue for ever, this is made very clear in the book - that’s what happens when you deify soldiers, when you make a society obsessed with valour there needs to be a war for the generals to earn stripes - when your society’s entire social contract and cohesion is based on war your leaders will always find a war that just HAS to be fought…

It’s all people who don’t read much or only read modern stuff, heinlein was an author who explored ideas he wasn’t someone who believed that his job was to tell people what to think. People who think the book is trying to be pro or anti anything are honestly borderline illiterate, they certainly haven’t read his other work.

The movie is just a dumbed down action movie directed by someone who didn’t really understand or enjoy the book - is a great movie for an action movie but it’s not very well thought out and it’s certainly not deeply thoughtful.

The film misses all key moments - the first scene, Zim throwing the knife, etc and everything subtle that really makes the story and emotion work - for the film the ending makes no sense, in the book it’s really powerful.

The movie isn’t really about much, the book is about everything - along side Friday and Stranger it’s a fascinating insight into the evolution of Americanism and cultural ideals pushed to absurdity. That’s not to say it should be read expecting answers, prime golden era sci-fi wasn’t about giving answers it’s about posing questions - hence foundation, the laws of robotics series, Stainless steel rat, etc - ‘We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society’ it’s not about telling you how to live or how not to live it’s about showing possibilities you probably haven’t thought to explore.

Yeah, I think also worth remembering that people love games that serious gamers consider beneath them. I love indy games but I also understand why AAA games are fun, simple handholding game play is great sometimes.

Games like Sam and max, beneath a steelsky, it came from the desert, Dune, Darkseed, there are so many counter examples to your claim

Look at Betrayal At Krondor, amazing story that rivals and beats most fantasy today.

You want me to give you a history lesson? Funny that when you wanted people to believe an inversion of the history everyone knows you didn’t see any need for sources but now you expect me to meticulously demonstrate every word? and yes we all know it’ll never be enough…

It doesn’t matter though because you’re not serious about what you’re saying and literally no one would belive your nonsense.

So your argument is that their stated aims were a lie and speeches claimed to be from notable figures in the movement were fabricated after the fact? Further that their violent actions should have been overlooked and if they had been there would be no corruption in the world today?

Surely you can see how that argument is about as credible as flat earth?

I don’t understand why people think they can just rewrite history to suit their needs.

I love how upset people get about things like this

Your coffee is made by enslaved children and people shrug

Your clothes were made in a sweatshop and people shrug

Your music is owned by corporate monsters who impose absurd copyright to steal culture from those that live in it and people shrug

A theoretical voice actor misses out on a small role and you go wild calling for boycotts and making unhinged tweets at the company?

Very weird priorities.

Almost like it’s totally unserious and nothing but self Important performative nonsense.

They were idiots trying to maintain a poverty based system simply because they weren’t on the very lowest rung. They were also proven very wrong, demand for textiles increased dramatically as prices fell and areas where there had been nothing but privation flourished into affluent communities with longer lifespans, better wages and improved living conditions for everyone even the lowest classes - this resulted in improvements literacy amoung the poor and resulted in the erosion of the class system as the early industrial era matured.

If the luddities had won we’d all be far worse off now.

It’s main problem is that people overuse it massively and act like they’re saying something really clever by using it

That is a good point, I guess I might accept there should be carefully considered regulation in certain well defined situations - I already agree money or brought currencies shouldn’t be allowed which will limit real world damage but I don’t really see where it is needed beyond this.

Sure but the point it is didn’t help, likewise gambling is illegal in a lot of places and those places tend to have more of a problem with it because addicts can’t get help.

Treating game addiction generally involves people learning to recognize and respond to behavior cycles, just like with other addictions. We should take these things seriously and teach kids how to recognize and escape manipulative cycles, a lesson which would be useful their whole life in every walk of life.

I think that there are better responses and more nuanced opinions to be considered, certainly teaching awareness and response to such stimulus is better than playing wack-a-mole with whatever people get addicted to.

The drug war demonstrated this very clearly, it’s basically impossible to ban things people want and this is even harder with internet services or downloaded software - focus on harm reduction and education for best results.

That said we should regulate against psychologically manipulative game mechanics being linked to real or purchased currencies, though education and offering alternatives must come first.

You do have a valid point there tbh, certain mechanics should be forbidden from being linked to real or purchasable money but I don’t really think they should be forbidden in general.

My argument for this is it’s too wide ranging and will limit positive elements in game design. I think it’s also important for people to be able to practice emotional response and regulation to such stimulus, if we don’t then advertisers and manipulators will walk all over us.

But surely you see how you can’t say ‘kids might see it so it’s banned but we can have this worse stuff because kids won’t be able to see it’

Adult streams with nudity and violence use the same system so should be treated the same.

And for clarity I’m not saying that they shouldn’t decide what their platform focuses on but if people are going to use the think of the children argument you don’t get to split it to allow violence without question but forbid nudity, it’s not consistent. Support banning both or neither with this argument or make a different argument is all I’m saying.

The first paragraph of this is brilliant projection.

You’ve also made up a lot of weird lies and confusion simply to get around the fact that your assertion that only governments can do censorship is wrong and all this to defend a totally meaningless point because my argument is still 100% as valid if we use a more cumbersome word or phrase instead of censorship.

Seriously read your own comment history and work on your issues.

Oh and anyone interested in how deceptive he’s being in this rant, his statement about me being into conspiracies is from a post talking about knowledge fight and the absurdity of conspiracy theories. This is not someone that even understands the concept of arguing in good faith.

I used Wikipedia and the dictionary as a source for the established usage of a word, a totally reasonable usage of the resources.

Yes in another thread entirely I made an observation that a joke is misogynistic and got upvoted by people who agree. I also made a joke that people saying ai learning from images it viewed is theft from artists would be angry at the statement made in post that piracy is not they because the original owner doesn’t get deprived of the original - none of this had anything to do with the topic at hand.

Your effort to dismiss my options with (incorrect) semantics and now whatever this weird display is make it very clear you’re simply against the conclusion I come to but are incapable of coming up with am actual argument against them, very typical emotional response tbh but digging into my comment history is a bit of an obsessive act and hints to me that you’re not seeking truth especially as you refuse to spend less effort reading the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article and learning your already meaningless argument on word definition is wrong.

But again pro censorship person tries to use methods to silence someone or divert from their original point rather than address the actual argument is par for the course.

So you’ve totally changed your tone, why would you have commented what you did instead of saying ‘valid opion, I’m sure they’ll choose to do whatever they want based on public sentiment so you expressing your opion is a totally normal and acceptable thing to do’?

You seem to want only people who agree with you to express their opinion, I’m not shocked of course that’s how censorship lovers slways think.

I’m very clearly talking about banning them on twitch, you really need to follow along. I never mentioned governments once.

You think it’s OK for twitch to show gta6 to children as long as they don’t go in the strip club? A lot of people would argue that murder, drug dealing, theft, and all the other crime and immorality is actually worse. You might end up with a platform that only allows Nintendo’s most family-friendly shit.

Yeah that is the law, it has nothing to do with anything I said. I am very aware the first amendment doesn’t apply to private companies and it certainly doesn’t here because my country doesn’t even have a constitution let alone amendments to it.

I was talking about people asking a private company for more censorship - if you read the Wikipedia article you’ll see in the first paragraph it explains your misconception that censorship is only something governments can do. Private companies can and do do it, I think it’s silly when people ask twitch to increase censorship because you’ll all be crying when people can’t stream gta6 because society got so slap happy on the censorship that murder, drug taking and crime got caught up in your crusade against seeing the human body.

• and I did provide a source, Wikipedia. I trust you’re not incapable of finding the wiki page on censorship are you?

No you’re confused, go read the Wikipedia article or a dictionary, you’re making the same mistake as the other guy trying to shoe horn in the ‘1stA only applies to government’ talking point where it doesn’t fit

You’re confused, you muddled your taking points - the 1st amendment applies to the us governments but the word censorship has no relation to that

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or “inconvenient”.[2][3][4] Censorship can be conducted by governments,[5] private institutions,[6] and other controlling bodies.

So no I’m not talking about the first ammendment at all I’m talking about whiney babies crying that twitch doesn’t censor things they don’t like and if the topic is twitch banning content then I’m entirely accurate in doing so

Please try to focus and think through what you’re saying in future

It’s hilarious to me when people argue for more censorship, especially when they do the ‘everyone should be treated like children’ argument. It’s just so dumb especially as it’s coming from people who’ll cry if they ban violent video games or any of the other equally problematic things that they like.

Omg a woman is wearing a bikini, it’ll melt children’s brains if they see that! They should only be watching murder and crime and delusion political takes from manipulative liars and idiots…

There shouldn’t be kids as a lot of the games aren’t suitable such as gta, etc

If they must have kids on the site they should be restricted to only viewing suitable content.

The rest of us shouldn’t have to be restricted to kids stuff

But you can be addicted to anything, we can’t shut down the world

Kinda but numbers are way down, scientology is dying at the moment

Didn’t he jump on Oprah’s sofa yelling about how they’re going to save the world?

But most people didn’t even get past act two and the most common complaint is it’s so big you end up in a hundred unrelated quests and quest items with no idea what any of them are about.

Honestly I’d love something similar but a bit more manageable thoigh of course I’m happy to accept it’s not a game for me and hope those the enjoy it love it.

This was my favorite game, looking forward to watching the video

‘Hi Paul, i’m your mother Jessica Attradies.’

The writing wasn’t quite upto the books but nothing was as exciting as patch by patch transforming the globe