I think you’re seriously underselling how low the bar is on a planet with 7 billion people in a medium that only takes a handful of humans to reach millions of people. Perfect being the enemy of good, I’ll take the “Elon Musk-types” (who I of course loathe with every fibre of my being but recognize have actual stakes…

Often you see in commercials something along the lines of, “Soandso Inc. - We create technologies that empower humans blah blah blah” and all I can think of is with 7 billion people on this planet, I’d really the vast majority of people remain quite unempowered absent any actual human-based meritocratic promotion in…

I was a programmer on a Transformers 3DS game that got a 30% from Nintendo Power (Nintendo Power!) and a different GameCube game that didn’t do much better. (Yes, I’ve been in the industry that long.) But I’ve also been on recent and current gen games that got 80%+. Console game productions are huge ships. Even the…

“with understanding that you make your protected works available for public consumption”

I don’t disagree. Rapid change leads to violence, much the way we don’t mind when the continents drift, but everyone suffers when it manifests in an earth quake. I guess I’d observe that that that’s not really an argument “against” automation in the abstract but against large, rapid changes to society faster than…

Once you’re using real-time voice generation, you can just cook gigabytes of conversation offline. You know what the characters can say - it’s all in the data you put in the game image. But it’s WAY more writing than you could generate otherwise, even *if* you hired dozens of writers. Text is stupid cheap in terms of…

“ChatGPT burns through a nuclear reactor’s worth of water just to cool their servers”

It’s illegal to circumvent encryption measures designed to protect works protected by copyright (in the USA - other counties that have ratified the applicable WIPO treaties have similar legislation on the books.) Whether that should be illegal or not is a different question. But the law is pretty clear on it. “But…

In today’s big budget games, animators are not animating this scene. They’re taking motion capture data and cleaning it up for ingestion into the engine. That’s real busy work. So I think this stuff is more coming for some of the work done by motion capture performers, and mocap tech teams where you have a lot of…

I don’t think anyone should be surprised if they have even a passing familiarity with churches in the United States.

A campaign that the right have waged so successfully that you dismiss on sight people who use the word ironically. The terrorists have won.

Other people have told you why Kotaku wrote an article about it, but I can tell you why it’s on your screen: you clicked on it.

Many people who do bad things get caught. Many people who do bad things do not get caught.

I’m aware of that, and that’s precisely what I said.

“Hong Kong is a part of China.”

republicans - “don’t tax, but spend”

History is littered with examples where leaps in technologies permitted societies to overfish themselves out of fish, to over-deforest to the point of running out of trees, to overfarm themselves out of useable farmland.

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ok yes, I see how a woman crying as she sucked on a famous guy’s penis and he says ‘If you just do everything I say, it’ll all be OK.’ is a typical scene in a just world where we’re all adults and nobody should feel bad because we all get what we deserve

I hope you don’t spend your entire life under the delusion that you are yourself because you decided to be that way. Because not only is it patently false, it’s exceedingly ungrateful.