Nope, you are incorrectly portraying evolution as a progression towards complexity and sophistication, it is not. Evolution is the process of adaption, whether it be towards simplification or complification is circumstantial.

Don’t limit Elon Musk’s dreams like that.

Benn Jordan always does it better, he is like the XKCD of being-a-pretty-decent-dude-about-things-a-lot-of-people-don’t-know-enough-about and I am tired of him always dominating that shit pre-emptively!

Meat Dogs 1 Fake Robo Dogs 0

Brilliant! You are very knowledgable about the sinister nature of cats! Come work for Big Red Dog we need more good people like you not brainwashed by Felies!!

You got a cat!?!! WHY

I could absolutely train border collies to fire harness-mounted, bark-activated lasers while pointing at the target so long as I let them herd their victims as a reward.

Fear me.

I will be unstoppable if I can manage to corner the tennis ball market before I begin the revolution. I keep trying to get Wilson, Dunlop and Penn in my mouth at the same time and they keep falling out… and then there is the matter of all the vintage tennis balls.

Which is why RIGHT NOW we need to force government control to keep us safe and bail the companies out who oversold these AI tools that most definitely work, most definitely have a viable business model and are most definitely backed up by companies without astronomically inflated valuations… driven up by funding one another in a circle of bullshit wallstreet has endorsed out of a love of this kind of bullshit bubble and the opportunities it provides to make money on the rise and crash!!!

If we don’t do this soon, the ruling class risks not being able to pull out of the pump and dump of the AI bubble and sail away into the sunset by successfully socializing the immense costs of the bursting of the bubble while preserving the privatized profits off the initial expansion of it. It is not fair to put this kind of suffocating debt and pressure on corporations attempting to innovate and provide economic growth!

Corporations are people too!

I almost never want to slap Bernie Sanders in the face, but I really really do right now…

Ok, here you go, here is your homework!

The con of neoliberalism is now widely understood across the political spectrum. It is harder and harder to hide its predatory nature, including its demands for huge public subsidies (Amazon, for example, recently sought and received multibillion-dollar tax breaks from New York and Virginia to set up distribution centers in those states). This has forced the ruling elites to make alliances with right-wing demagogues who use the crude tactics of racism, Islamophobia, homophobia, bigotry and misogyny to channel the public’s growing rage and frustration away from the elites and toward the vulnerable. These demagogues accelerate the pillage by the global elites while at the same time promising to protect working men and women. Donald Trump’s administration, for example, has abolished numerous regulations, from greenhouse gas emissions to net neutrality, and slashed taxes for the wealthiest individuals and corporations, wiping out an estimated $1.5 trillion in government revenue over the next decade, while embracing authoritarian language and forms of control.

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Neoliberal rhetoric, with its emphasis on individual freedoms, can effectively “split off libertarianism, identity politics, multiculturalism, and eventually narcissistic consumerism from the social forces ranged in pursuit of social justice through the conquest of state power.”

https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/neoliberalisms-dark-path-to-fascism

Do me a favor and try educating yourself about the history of fascism before you confidently assert incorrect things about it.

Fascism is what happens when the working class existentially gives up on leftist movements being able to help them because neoliberalism and/or status quo managers wholy and completely failed to provide them a decent life.

I am not saying the culture of AAA studios isn’t toxic as hell, but the size difference does create the potential for stability a smaller studio just physically cannot have even if its culture is far better.

Hell yeah thank you!

Video games are more than part of our culture, they extend into areas far beyond just entertainment.

Games are a way of understanding dynamic, hopelessly interdependent systems whether in an attempt to predict how dynamic situations with multiple actors with differing objectives will turn out or better understand history as a living dynamic thing that happened to occur one way (see Cole Werhle’s board game Pax Pamir 2e or John Company as perfect examples of this).

The evolution of good game design and the general progress of most games getting better UI systems over time as designers figure out how to best represent complex situations and choices to players is also FAR more important than just a nice consequence of iterative design, it is the groundwork for good architecture in the software realm in terms of how software is experienced by humans.

I wish that was how it would work, but we have to step all the way back here and consider how there is a fundamental difference from an employment perspective, from a target product perspective and from a budget perspective between indie game companies and large boring game companies.

I love indie games, I don’t play AAA games really, but you have to recognize the crucial role larger game companies play at providing consistent employment for entry level game development jobs… those workers can go on and found indie game companies and make their best games fine… but what about before that? What if you want to develop awesome video game but you have a family? You really want to fuck around with going it alone as an indie game company?

From the other side, even in the sanest possible world are indie game companies the right tool to craft highly iterative cinematic sports games with? … that sports fans will want to play?

Critical thinking is less a skill and more a value.

I disagree fundamentally, I think it is a self-deceiving trap to fall into the belief that critical thinking is a value you can hold up to the light, check to see if it is true and then place back within your heart… critical thinking is rather a practice which is why good universities emphasize that they are not there to distribute information but rather to serve as centers of practice with regards to learning.

In musical practice there is always the requirement for self reflection and adjustment, that is why good teachers are so helpful, they point out what is invisible to you but overwhelmingly present in blocking your further progress.

What inspires people to practice are not values, rather only some genuine desire for the pursuit itself can motivate you without burning you out to the core.

Also hard to feel like a point for me when that atrocious Meta settlement with the attorney generals that basically locks in profits via regulatory capture just came out…

As someone from the US it feels like a nuclear missile pointed at the fediverse…

The shortness of the form has never been the problem.

Agreed, the article gives a good angle on why AI in law is dumb as hell.

This is before people start claiming that fascism is caused by economic an卐iety.

Fascism is caused by suffering + suffocating neoliberal status quo managers that condescend those who ask for help while pointing to the “bad cop” and saying “Be happy I gave you anything, I could be like the bad cop be thankful I am the good one!”.