This is what I bring up with a coworker all the time as to why education is so important. Knowing the mistakes and pitfalls from the road to get to where we are right now is important so you don't waste time trying to reinvent the wheel. Also it helps when you look at a problem and think "The solution is SO obvious! Just X!". After education you tend to think "There's probably a good reason we don't 'Just X!', I just am unaware of it.". Though you srill need to do your due diligence and research.
That said, there are always ideas that weren't feasible at the time, or some breakthrough that they never thought of in the past that could make something relevant.
I had no idea all those styles! Honestly, thank you. It was one of those things where I've never really looked it up or thought of it, and of course it's been done. Doesn't look all that bad. Not quite what I was thinking, but JUST white would be kinda... I dunno. Wouldn't work without a little contrast.
Is it weird that I just thought about white goth aesthetic as a parallel to those all white PC builds? I don't think I've seen 'white goth theme' done before and am kinda curious if it would look good.
I struggled at math as a young kid because I hated doing everything the long way and showing every step. I got a mental math book that taught how to do longer form multiplication in your head. I could multiply 2-3 digit numbers in my head and just tell you the answer.
My teacher made me do it on the board in front of everyone and swore I was cheating somehow because if she couldn't do it, a kid couldn't either.
I was also reading Michael Chriton books in the 4th grade, and teachers thought that I wasn't because kids don't read books like that.
School was kinda annoying with how it would punish you for being anywhere outside of normal. Even if it was positive.
This is basically how evolution works. It's goal is not necessarily 'better' or some goal- it's just iterating forward. Always just forward. Sometimes better, sometimes worse, always forward.
Upper management decides the direction. Selective pressure determines if 'forward' is good or bad. In the absence of competition, selective pressure is eliminated and the only pressure is maximuze profit- leading to enshittification.
So- this would potentially render in-game cosmetics useless. You could just DLSS some cosmetic over your character for 'free' and skip paying for in-game cosmetic items. You could retexture or skin a model into something else with this tech, theoretically.
Heck, this could be a banned feature for online competitive games if you DLSS enemies to be easier to see.
Non-gaming applications of such tech are kinda frightening, but good to be aware of the possibility. AI swapping of characters has been something they've been working on. I'm guessing it will be sold as some kinda feature where you can give the AI some model of yourself, and it swaps the main character of a show or movie for your likeness. People will find it neat and try it and it will sorta work, but mostly just be a novelty. Then you'll see that data get used for advertising, where they swap out the character in the Ad for you to catch your attention. If they try to catalog every person, this could be valuable and used to maliciously scam people by cloning your voice to mimic you and do all sorts of terrible things.
I imagine in a few years after some major scams and such that we'll need some new verification systems to try to ensure that transactions are between real people and not just AI with your information. Yes, it will be intrusive and tracking, but will be required to maintain online commerce. Online marketplaces will struggle and possibly collapse without some way to authenticate a transaction. Hey, we may see a return to physical stores and doing everything in person again!
That makes sense. Microsoft didn't enter the console market for gamers or gaming- they entered it to beat sony. The PS2 had a linux distro you could load on it to try to sell it as a computer to circumvent luxury import taxes. If it WAS a computer, it would compete with Microsoft Windows. They were worried that a console could just sell software instead of games and be a competitor, so they threw a ton of money trying to run Sony out of business.
Microsoft never really wanted to win gaming. The war was against an enemy that wasn't really a threat. So not killing off a console wasn't really a "loss".
Older games are also meant to be beaten. I remember games that had reviews saying, "This game will take 40-60 hours to complete", and that was it. You could replay it if you wanted, but it was just an experience.
The new idea is live service games. Games you can never really beat, you just grind at it forever. That or they have a bunch of add on things to make the game take a lot longer so you keep playing the same thing over and over again. I'm not saying they're not fun, just that they lack a satisfying conclusion and variety.
...did they sell the pirates DVDs ON Amazon? That would be funny, and mildly ironic on how Amazon has zero accountability for all the counterfeit jank junk they sell.
I've not had kids, but I've had many dogs. It's a similar thing where people who have had a few good dogs look at a 'bad dog' and blame the owner. The dog needs training, or discipline, or whatever... And they've never had a dog that had issues. Until you do get that one stubborn little asshole where nothing works. Yes, we've tried that- the dog is willfully just a little asshole. Still love 'em, still give them the best life you can- but you know them too well and just know that they are going to be a pain and do bad things no matter what. All you can do is try to mitigate the damage and make sure they don't hurt themselves.
For our dog that was like that- it just took a long time for him to grow old enough to slow down. Then he became the sweetest and best dog ever.
Good luck on the kid. Hope they figure it out sooner rather than later.
Political bots- well maybe, but it's not that far fetched. Astroturfing is very real and has been a thing for a good while now. It's honestly not difficult to think that the same techniques and practices, enhance by AI now, could be used to shape political will of the people.
If you say, "NO! MY party wouldn't do that!". Maybe not, but the other side might. Or even other countries. Honestly, as a boring ass citizen -I- have the ability to VPN into another country and AI shitpost bad ideas onto their political boards. If I was in a foreign country employed in some goverment capacity for counterintelligence operations and I WASN'T employong such tools and actions- I'd just be terrible at my job.
It's not a 'product' in the conventional sense. It's a gateway to an intellegent astroturf machine. Buy a ton of fake accounts for every social media platform, make them appear 'legit', then have bots comb for anything they can shoehorn a message into and have your ai bot army manipulate public perception. That's the only use case I could see companies actually willing to pay that kinda money for.
There are tons of social situations where I'm quiet because the conversation spawned a really crazy thought that I need to explore in my own head, and I don't know everone else well enough to share it openly. I'm glad I do when people are this judgy.
When you have upgraded enough components that you can build another PC out of the old parts.
It was right after the part about digital IP media rights policy. Just before the 2029 FIA rule changes.
I think it's in one of the books they took out because none of it made sense to them.
This is what I bring up with a coworker all the time as to why education is so important. Knowing the mistakes and pitfalls from the road to get to where we are right now is important so you don't waste time trying to reinvent the wheel. Also it helps when you look at a problem and think "The solution is SO obvious! Just X!". After education you tend to think "There's probably a good reason we don't 'Just X!', I just am unaware of it.". Though you srill need to do your due diligence and research.
That said, there are always ideas that weren't feasible at the time, or some breakthrough that they never thought of in the past that could make something relevant.
I had no idea all those styles! Honestly, thank you. It was one of those things where I've never really looked it up or thought of it, and of course it's been done. Doesn't look all that bad. Not quite what I was thinking, but JUST white would be kinda... I dunno. Wouldn't work without a little contrast.
Game on!
Is it weird that I just thought about white goth aesthetic as a parallel to those all white PC builds? I don't think I've seen 'white goth theme' done before and am kinda curious if it would look good.
I struggled at math as a young kid because I hated doing everything the long way and showing every step. I got a mental math book that taught how to do longer form multiplication in your head. I could multiply 2-3 digit numbers in my head and just tell you the answer.
My teacher made me do it on the board in front of everyone and swore I was cheating somehow because if she couldn't do it, a kid couldn't either.
I was also reading Michael Chriton books in the 4th grade, and teachers thought that I wasn't because kids don't read books like that.
School was kinda annoying with how it would punish you for being anywhere outside of normal. Even if it was positive.
That's why I always have one old unupgraded pikeman hanging around since 560BC to take over cities.
This is basically how evolution works. It's goal is not necessarily 'better' or some goal- it's just iterating forward. Always just forward. Sometimes better, sometimes worse, always forward.
Upper management decides the direction. Selective pressure determines if 'forward' is good or bad. In the absence of competition, selective pressure is eliminated and the only pressure is maximuze profit- leading to enshittification.
So- this would potentially render in-game cosmetics useless. You could just DLSS some cosmetic over your character for 'free' and skip paying for in-game cosmetic items. You could retexture or skin a model into something else with this tech, theoretically.
Heck, this could be a banned feature for online competitive games if you DLSS enemies to be easier to see.
Non-gaming applications of such tech are kinda frightening, but good to be aware of the possibility. AI swapping of characters has been something they've been working on. I'm guessing it will be sold as some kinda feature where you can give the AI some model of yourself, and it swaps the main character of a show or movie for your likeness. People will find it neat and try it and it will sorta work, but mostly just be a novelty. Then you'll see that data get used for advertising, where they swap out the character in the Ad for you to catch your attention. If they try to catalog every person, this could be valuable and used to maliciously scam people by cloning your voice to mimic you and do all sorts of terrible things.
I imagine in a few years after some major scams and such that we'll need some new verification systems to try to ensure that transactions are between real people and not just AI with your information. Yes, it will be intrusive and tracking, but will be required to maintain online commerce. Online marketplaces will struggle and possibly collapse without some way to authenticate a transaction. Hey, we may see a return to physical stores and doing everything in person again!
That makes sense. Microsoft didn't enter the console market for gamers or gaming- they entered it to beat sony. The PS2 had a linux distro you could load on it to try to sell it as a computer to circumvent luxury import taxes. If it WAS a computer, it would compete with Microsoft Windows. They were worried that a console could just sell software instead of games and be a competitor, so they threw a ton of money trying to run Sony out of business.
Microsoft never really wanted to win gaming. The war was against an enemy that wasn't really a threat. So not killing off a console wasn't really a "loss".
Older games are also meant to be beaten. I remember games that had reviews saying, "This game will take 40-60 hours to complete", and that was it. You could replay it if you wanted, but it was just an experience.
The new idea is live service games. Games you can never really beat, you just grind at it forever. That or they have a bunch of add on things to make the game take a lot longer so you keep playing the same thing over and over again. I'm not saying they're not fun, just that they lack a satisfying conclusion and variety.
Trump said Obama did something bad? So that means Trump has done this recently, and Obama didn't do it at all.
...did they sell the pirates DVDs ON Amazon? That would be funny, and mildly ironic on how Amazon has zero accountability for all the counterfeit jank junk they sell.
Has anyone considered how this might interfere with the rapture?
I've not had kids, but I've had many dogs. It's a similar thing where people who have had a few good dogs look at a 'bad dog' and blame the owner. The dog needs training, or discipline, or whatever... And they've never had a dog that had issues. Until you do get that one stubborn little asshole where nothing works. Yes, we've tried that- the dog is willfully just a little asshole. Still love 'em, still give them the best life you can- but you know them too well and just know that they are going to be a pain and do bad things no matter what. All you can do is try to mitigate the damage and make sure they don't hurt themselves.
For our dog that was like that- it just took a long time for him to grow old enough to slow down. Then he became the sweetest and best dog ever.
Good luck on the kid. Hope they figure it out sooner rather than later.
Political bots- well maybe, but it's not that far fetched. Astroturfing is very real and has been a thing for a good while now. It's honestly not difficult to think that the same techniques and practices, enhance by AI now, could be used to shape political will of the people.
If you say, "NO! MY party wouldn't do that!". Maybe not, but the other side might. Or even other countries. Honestly, as a boring ass citizen -I- have the ability to VPN into another country and AI shitpost bad ideas onto their political boards. If I was in a foreign country employed in some goverment capacity for counterintelligence operations and I WASN'T employong such tools and actions- I'd just be terrible at my job.
Pleasure yourself with the all new McDonald's McRib this Easter.
It's not a 'product' in the conventional sense. It's a gateway to an intellegent astroturf machine. Buy a ton of fake accounts for every social media platform, make them appear 'legit', then have bots comb for anything they can shoehorn a message into and have your ai bot army manipulate public perception. That's the only use case I could see companies actually willing to pay that kinda money for.
There are tons of social situations where I'm quiet because the conversation spawned a really crazy thought that I need to explore in my own head, and I don't know everone else well enough to share it openly. I'm glad I do when people are this judgy.