Rhaedas

It’s like so many things. We were okay with what we had until something came along to vastly improve it. Internet and computer speeds, storage sizes, graphics. We did seem to forget how having good gameplay is important though in some modern games, got distracted by the eye candy.

I’m bad about keeping old devices around. I have my first TNT graphics card, a Soundblaster, and several VGA cords. I do NOT have any mice around with balls. Gone the minute optical came on the scene, what an annoyance they could be.

Seeing the changes of political leans over history mapped out, it’s far more complex than just two parties and flipping side.

HOUGHTON’S NEW REVERSIBLE Political Map

It’s not the platform, it’s the people using the platform. That’s something the Reddit owners didn’t get.

Not meaning to imply anything to OP’s abilities, but part of the effectiveness of any communication is the delivery. Some people don’t get satire or other implied meanings even in person. Text is harder to do unless the reader is familiar with references or is in the same “mode” of humor at the time. Sometimes to make a joke or twist work online means you have to put a bit more background or setup than you would in other settings. I’ve done the same, where I just type out a phrase or quote or line as I would IRL, and then realize that it’s not that funny without a bit of context added to help it.

Note an example is the very first part I added so OP didn’t think I was saying they were bad at satire. In real conversation I might not have to say that because it’s implied we’re talking about generalities and not them. Or adding /s to a joke that could be taken serious, or other emotes to create a setting for the punchline.

I think (and this is just my opinion based on years of seeing online discussions) that people are quick to type in their thoughts and hit send without reading over and editing things for clarify. That leads to misunderstandings which fuels the typical arguments we find all because of missing nuances. Hell, I’ve even read over things, submitted a post, and then gone right back to edit because I saw something else needed.

DOGE gets rid of FDA

Silly restrictions that hurt corporations.

I haven’t seen the sequel to it yet, and sort of was fine leaving it open-ended. I can see how there are dark parts to that episode, mainly from sticking with Dark Mirror’s premise that tech can be used badly. It also paints a not-so-great picture of the real people, hero worship, maybe the gaming industry? The sim copies seem to make out the best of anyone. Definitely a favorite, if I’d rate it on dark vs. positive, it’s 8/10 positive, whereas San Junipero was a 10/10 in the end. Actually San was a 9/10, as it did show that some used the tech there as escape and didn’t grow like the main characters finally did.

This felt like reading about someone who complains that The Daily Show doesn’t have enough positive news stories on it. Dark Mirror fills a niche that people look for, it’s not something that making people think a certain way.

And no mention at all of San Junipero. I guess that would break selling it as pessimism porn when there’s examples otherwise.

Attractiveness standards vary of course, so Fox News has certain criteria that they think appeal to their typical viewers.

Right? It’s the biggest circus of all. Do you really want all those clowns looking for something else to do?

Damn there’s some brilliantly evil ones there, especially the ones where the following emails about the failure also have a test in them.

War, cold war, or trade war? Maybe a mix, like trade war (since that seems to be sticking around) and a proxy war that the US is using to keep the war supply industry rolling (since he had broken all other industries).

Don’t forget plenty of other pandemic potentials, especially since the US officially doesn’t recognize any problems anymore like climate or pollution or science.

“Soar”

Looks back a month to compare

Falling without style?

You’re correct, it’s more likely that humans will use a lesser version (eg. an LLM) to screw things up, assuming it’s doing what it says it’s doing while it’s not. That’s why I say that AI safety applies to any of this, not just a hypothetical AGI. But again, it doesn’t seem to matter, we’re just going to go full throttle and get what we get.

I know there’s some that roll their eyes at the mention of AI safety, saying that what we have isn’t AGI and won’t become it. That’s true, but that doesn’t eliminate the possibilities of something in the future. And between this and China’s laxness of trying everything to be first, if we get to that point, we’ll find out the hard way who was right.

The laughable part is that the safeguards put up by Biden’s admin were very vague and lacking of anything anyway. But that doesn’t matter now.

See, I can think of a few movies of his that I have problems with. Yet I wouldn’t call them bad, only missing a few cylinders to bring them to perfect. He has been in a few that are top, damn Con Air is about the perfect movie ever for what it was aiming to be.

Not out of the question at this point.

Gotcha, like bleach and tariffs. Maybe he saw a clip from the movie Greenland and thought, we need that!

The problem with this idea comes down to soil and environment. One can’t just pick up whole crop areas and transplant them into a new one solely based on the temperature. It’s the same fallacy that invites fantasy maps of settlements on Antarctica. And the bunkers of the wealthy? Death traps because they’re built on an assumption of a limited climate problem that goes away soon and allows them to emerge in some Hollywood rebirth of society (take the ending of the movie 2012 as an example of convenient, “it’s all okay now”).

There is Project Lyra to catch up to it. Other than that there’s many hypotheses on what it was and most importantly, why it seemed to speed up some as it left.