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I think some here are grossly overestimating average human capacity. There are many humans that have difficulty discerning the context of a statement based on their experiences aka examples.

This isn’t AGI, but in another couple years at this pace, it’s coming. Not necessarily because it is some higher mind, but because the metric for AGI is can it perform all the tasks our minds can at our level. Not necessarily Stephen Fry or Albert Einstein, just as well as a median asshole. Have you met us?

We aren’t all that, and most of us spend most of our time on a script, sapience must be exercised, many do many don’t, and isn’t necessary for what we will abuse these for. It would probably be kinder to restrict discussion of such topics from memory when this matures. Even humans have great difficulty wrestling with them, to the point of depression and existential dread.

Lets be fair, Steve Huffman did most of the work to make Lemmy so popular.

Shout out to the old r/jailbait mod for making in happen!

Competitive play used to be fun, but like so many things it was pushed to extremes and taken out of the world of being fun as the end in itself into league plays and people that take it too seriously, to the point people that play 18 hours a day get a fan base instead of therapy.

As someone formerly on the Halo side, the gaming world seemed to turn to shit after Reach.

There are bots that can challenge and destroy any human player, there are as you say single player experiences, so I also don’t see the point in engaging with the toxicity of modern multiplayer, except with irl friends.

He’s unveiling cruelty to his sociopathic shareholders, to their thunderous applause I’m sure.

You know, it’s like an art unveiling or a movie premiere, but for “hey shareholders, watch me hurt these people that helped us make money for years, ta da!”

I can’t imagine still wanting to utilize the product/service of a company that laid me off, especially a company that was laying off out of sociopathic shareholder appeasement and not actual struggles.

It isn’t an essential utility. There are better MMOs.

This could be an international treaty against punching kittens, and they would still vote no.

Plus McConnell would never ratify a treaty that outlaws his favorite pastime.

It’s more than that, because Republican governors have been actively trying and succeeding in rolling back hard won child labor protection laws.

It’s not just about not having the foreigns telling them what to do, it’s because Republicans want children providing cheap labor to boost their stock portfolio. Here. Now.

And emulate.

Yeah 😔

Honestly anyone who would ask “where were they born” when considering whether to care about children getting hurt or killed is an unredeemable monster.

We don’t have to coerce others directly, we appeal to the greed and powerlust of leaders of other markets, let their powerful do the coercion of their people and change their protections, and the global markets have a new workforce and resource market to exploit and extract value from. Everybody* wins.

Everybody that already holds power and/or meaningful capital anyway, and that’s all that matters. Fuck the livestock.

One way or another, the global capital market must continue to grow/metastasize… on a finite world, with finite resources, and a sole, shared, COMMUNal environment we all rely on from one breath to the next. Yeah…

Our brand of rigged market capitalism truly found it’s stride under Reagan’s deregulation giveaway. We’ve been exporting/advocating/bullying other developed nations to do the same ever since. There are tightly, tightly controlled, adequately taxed capitalist economies that focus on how REASONABLE capital incentive can benefit society (the point of any economy, that we’ve abandoned) that can work, like the Nordic model, but now we’re coming for that too, and we’ll do to them what we did to the UK and are doing to France.

It’s an easy sell. A faustian bargain. You just need a few people in the right positions of power. “Hey, YOU can live larger. You can live like a modern pharoah. Just sell out your countrymen. Do you like yachts? How about yachts the size of cruise ships?”

Don’t forget, our capitalists have been hard at work infecting the rest of the world with OUR greed disease. We’re the ones advocating other nations stop seeing their people as valued citizens and instead as capital livestock to be exploited mercilessly.

Child labor exists elsewhere out of desperate, struggling developing economies. We’re worse imho, because we’re doing it amid record profits, because its never enough, and our gluttonous pig oligarch owners ever demanding mooooaaaaaar, exploiting these kids whose schools they’ve already destroyed and stole the funding of through tax evasion and legislative tax policy capture.

We aren’t human to them, we’re capital livestock, which just makes our non-wealthy children capital veal.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/20/republican-child-labor-law-death

It’s like everyone exists to tear everyone else down now.

50 states of the same supposed society trying to beat eachother, an economy of 300 million people trying to get mooooaaaaar than their neighbors, and the cherry on top, social media stoked resentment between the haves and have nots.

This what happens when you configure a society to compete against itself, almost everyone ends up kicked in the teeth.

Except the owners of course. They like it like this. They helped mold it into this. As long as we keep tearing each other down, their game of divide and profit can proceed.

It would be nice if we could have just said “ooh, a fun game.” Instead there are legions of people daring Nintendo corporate to sue them, not for a good reason, just to start some shit for entertainment and tear people that made a fun thing down to feel important.

And the enshittification continues.

That actually makes Sisko sound so much worse.

It certainly didn’t live up to Federation ideals.

But then again Sisko should be a war criminal for using Biogenic weapons.

If you want to see someone do the ethically correct thing 10/10, even in the face of Starfleet failing to, Jean Luc is your captain.

I’ll bet Janeway and Sisko’s music playlists are a lot more fun though.

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“You will have nothing and be happy with it”

“YESSIR RIGHT AWAY SIR!”

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