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  • Other people have some really good responses in here.

    I'm going to echo that AI is highlighting the problems of capitalism. The ownership class wants to fire a bunch of people and replace them with AI, and keep all that profit for themselves. Not good.

  • I really don't think creating for real artificial intelligence is a good idea. I mean that's peak "don't invent the torment Nexus"

    Are you going to give it equal rights? How is voting going to work when the AI can create an arbitrary number of itself and vote as a bloc?

    Creating an intelligent being to be your slave is fucked up, too.

    Just... We don't need that right now. We have other more pressing problems with fewer ethical land mines

  • I mean, technically true in a "picture a spherical frictionless cow" kind of sense, but not something you're going to find in real life. Most people are susceptible to corruption. Cops have a lot of power, and we all know the saying about power corrupting.

    On top of that, I'm pretty sure much of the training they're getting to be cops is bad. They don't spend nearly enough time on deescalation, I think , for example.

  • I'm pretty sure anyone who becomes a cop to "reform it from the inside" will either be corrupted or pushed out. There've been a couple high profile cases of cops trying to reform, and they were rewarded with prizes like being shot in the head or having dead rats left in their mailboxes.

  • Is there a name for the thing where you'll make an argument with like 3 distinct points supporting it, and the other person will attack only one, and claim the whole thing is in their favor?

    Like, "You can't cast two leveled spells in a turn, and you're silenced, and you're out of spell slots, so you can't cast another fireball"

    "No, I have another spell slot from my ring. Fireball time!"

  • I mean, it's win-win for the assholes.

    People don't fight back: they get deported. Win for nazis

    People fight back: Nazis use it as justification for further escalation

    At least defending yourself / the victims has a chance of saving them. Doing nothing won't

    • crawl stone soup. A classic rogue like.
    • elden ring + dlc. Big masterpiece of the genre.
    • the binding of Isaac (+ all the dlc). Huge rogue lite. Lots of stuff I haven't unlocked yet.
    • monster hunter (maybe world? I liked rise too though).
    • if I could have online, guild wars 2. Otherwise, maybe the original doom. Especially if it comes with a map editor, fan made maps, or Oblige to randomly make maps.
  • I bought a couple games on epic when they were cheaper. I don't think I'd do so again.

    • the client isn't as good. It's slower, the way it paginates your games (I got a lot of free ones) is annoying. It really wants to show you store stuff
    • less (zero?) Linux support
    • don't think it does the game recording steam does
    • I don't think it has the remote play together steam does

    There's probably other stuff I'm not thinking of. It's just not as good a service.

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  • I think my cat chews on plastic because he knows I'll come running out and interact with him. I'm like, you could just meow. If you meow I'll come, too. He is old and set in his ways.

  • The right wing doesn't care about hypocrisy. The only thing that matters is "is this good for me right now?".

    Pointing out hypocrisy to them is as effective as someone saying your geometric proof is invalid because you're wearing a yellow shirt. It's just not a part of their worldview or system of values.

  • . I’m sure there are efficiencies and they need to be enacted but we need to ask why we use the systems we use.

    Yes. This is sometimes known as chesterton's fence

    https://theknowledge.io/chestertons-fence-explained/

    G.K. Chesterton was an early 20th century English writer known for his clever paradoxes.

    He once wrote: “There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: ‘If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.’”

    In other words, don’t be so quick to tear down things you don’t understand. That fence may have been put up for a very good reason, even if that reason is not immediately obvious. To ignore that reality risks unintended and potentially negative consequences.

  • I didn't finish gta5 because there's a lot of just driving around doing nothing. And then the missions are very restrictive - you pretty much do exactly what it says or you go back to the checkpoint.

    I'd rather they were more like Deus Ex or Dishonored (I think those are called immersive Sims now?).

    Also Trevor is just unpleasant