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tell me you know nothing about america without telling me you know nothing about america... jeez

its harsh times

maybe not true for all of us but by 2008 i was done developing. 0-12 is basically when you are created as a person -- molded by your environment. crime may have been higher back then but it was a much better environment to be raised in. society has waned quite a bit since then. public schools have waned a lot. all of our institutions. nobody feels like they can speak candidly or help another person without risking being taken to trial. yes, xkcd make a comic where he makes fun of people who say that things have gotten worse. but the crazy, unbelievable reality is that xkcd was wrong shock horror!

did you ever consider the idea that AI is not the same as a calculator? or consider the fact that there is no reason why there couldnt be another quantum leap next year? and another one after that?

exactly correct. millennials decided to sleepwalk forward and ignore reality. millennials are not out there solving societal problems even today. millennials also benefit from being raised in one of the most prosperous and nurturing environments that has ever existed. the only thing millennials ever did was spawn AI in a completely irresponsible and regrettable way. now our kids have to grow up not even knowing whether or not they will make it.

gen z is not going to college like millennials did. and i do think it was a moral failure for everyone to jump on an unsustainable bandwagon... they paid too much for a degree in the humanities and when asked about it they would say "well... its just what everyone does." mindless behavior hurts people and the economy so how is this not a moral failing? people should have stuck up for what they knew was right. everybody knew that the ultimate destination of this bandwagon was a world where everyone has a degree regardless of merit (thereby making degrees pointless and worthless) and the degrees cost half a million dollars for no apparent reason. people were intellectually lazy and they got scraped. big fucking deal.

there is certainly no shortage of tech capital flowing right now... where is the corresponding burst in hiring? is this economic or AI?

i think the obvious cognitive dissonance is mostly fueled by denial. it's acceptable for them to believe that the dirty blue collar people will fall on hard times. also they don't want to believe that white collar jobs will be lost because you can't use the "teach the coal miners to code" meme-think on it. turns out reality can be a little counter-intuitive sometimes. sometimes it can even be different from what you see on TV! wow!

when its construction: jobs will be completely automated away. when its white collar: AI is simply a tool!

i have an idea for a game but i really dont have enough time to implement myself. it would be a MMORPG but with discreet time steps, so every hour or so all the players would get a message that contains a picture depicting the point of view of their player character and a list of actions/options that they can take. rendering the game out of real time would allow hyper-realistic graphics and also physics simulation or environment destruction/modification. it would also allow for many, many more concurrent players in the same game world than other games and would allow for a much larger game world. and taking one "turn" only once every 30 minutes/hour would lend the game a special character that might be highly appreciated by some people in the context of todays popular games. my vision for the game is being able to peer into a vast, photo-realistic world, buzzing with a hundred thousand people trading, mining and fighting, one picture at a time.

said the fool who slurps up intel community propaganda. youre even more wrong than i am

i dont recall a single instance of someone on here calling it "terrifying" or even bad

when i played HL2 in 2006 or whatever, i had no idea that there would never be anything like that again. we all thought that HL2 was just the beginning... but it was the opposite. i think that we all assumed that the game was made great by its technology. but the more i think about it, the more i realize that it was the people, the sensibilities of those people and that time, and the character of valve at that time, everything besides the technology, that made HL2 so good. and that also explains why it has never been reproduced. if i were going to be sent to another planet in another galaxy to seed another colony of humanity... and i could only bring 2 video games for that entire branch of humanity to know and appreciate... it would be HL2 and MGS2.