Though I think most of these AI-enhanced 'features' are indeed marketing fluff, I have to disagree that they impact game responsiveness.

Yes, DLSS3 does fudge actual frame rates by faking/upscaling in-between, but the vast majority of frames have to do with eye-candy anyway, and not responsiveness or input in any way. Professional games (and game-engines) have separate display and input systems, and often distinct physics-frames as well, that update at wildly different rates.

For example a RTS (so generally not reaction-based at all) will have logic-states (building queues, unit orders, mission objectives, etc) updating very infrequently, along with input, because those are essentially not time-sensitive relative to the rendering time-budget. Then you'll have physics frames at maybe 10-30 fps, just to make sure any collision and destruction animations have solid data, and then everything else is pure rendering - interpolating movement and explosion animations and superfluous things like that. Often these rendering frames have no access to game-state at all, being on separate threads or co-routines, to optimise everything. So they have nothing to do with player responsiveness. And if there is some nifty trick to interpolate them quicker or fake half of it, sure, whatever. The only impact here is whether the end results looks prettier or smoother.

Even on an FPS, where reaction-time is everything, physics frames will not exceed 60 fps. Even that much would is already unnecessary and quite wasteful. The only job of the rest of the frames is looking pretty when you reload, and making sure that graphics-heavy effects don't spike too much and steal time from the physics calculations whose accuracy is mechanically-essential. So again, whatever you do with your animation cycles has nothing to do with your input events or with your game-logic and world-states, so no impact on responsiveness at all.

“It's an older code, sir, but it checks out.”

If only ideas evolved, just like technology does, then societies might learn to avoid the mistakes of the past, and ignorant people would not use a near-instantaneous global communication network to attempt to justify current atrocities with ideologies created hundreds of years ago and probably written down with a fucking quill.

Iâ(TM)m sorry, did you just compare the current state of Chinese governance policies with the behavior of the British Empire and a nascent USA in the 1800s?

Because if you did, that is a great argument as to how primitive Chinaâ(TM)s authoritarian society has become.

Oh wow the tank driver tried to not brutally squish a human being! So humane!

And then tank man wrote several books in prison. Maybe a decade after daring to jaywalk he is released, tries to kickstart a grass-roots political campaign, but those issues are not relevant anymore because public grievances were long addressed somehow and society moved on. After a brief media buzz, because tank man used to be a famous symbol, it fizzles quietly and without consequence. Very civilised.

Or, tank man was disappeared and never seen again. Everything about him, his friends, and the issues they cared about is forcibly repressed. Social progress grinds to a halt in the 80s.

Hmm, I wonder which one they teach in schools over there.

How about the third version, where they pretend none of this even happened in the first place, or else?

We can totally disagree on what kinds of cheese are good and what kinds of cheese are bad, and its fine to operate under different cheese ideologies.

No amount of wishful thinking and ideological indoctrination will change the fact that sterilizing inconvenient religious groups is objectively wrong. This is not subjective. Disagreement on this is malicious, and very easily identifies who is the worse guy.

Try even daring to have a voice and posting critical keywords like this in the Chinese internet, and then tell me what happens to you, and to all your relatives. No, wait, you didn't have a voice beforehand, you certainly won't afterwards.

I'll just guess what happens then ;)

Have you ever been to Italy, or Germany or even the cantons that barely agree on being called Switzerland? Obviously national and economic interests come and go, and politicians politicate about these things endlessly, but walking around on the streets none of those people seem particularly dominated by US interests to me. And if they do enjoy the same Marvel movies as Americans do you'll have to explain to me why that's such a bad thing.

On the other hand, if you walk around Tibet or the place formerly called Uyghuristan... its a very, very different story, so let's not start pretending the world would look the same under two countries with almost opposite ideas of what leadership looks like.

Chinese influence operations and the harm they cause are so blatant its not even classified information.

In the US a bunch of people are being tried for various instances of criminal assault on a New York governorship candidate that was on the shitlist of the Chinese Communist Party - for insisting the Tiananmen Square massacre actually happened no less - and have already admitted being coordinated by a Chinese national that happens to be an intelligence operative.

Just now on the news that they found evidence that a 'Canadian' politician called Han Dong liaised with Chinese diplomats to prolong the political detention of two Canadian citizens arrested in China, because freeing them could benefit the opposition in the next elections and put _their_ seat at risk.

And I think sometime last year they caught a prolific political donor within the UK Parliament that was literally being bankrolled by CCP security services to cultivate relationships and influence legislation.

This is just off the top of my head, and regarding interfering with the 'developed West'. The crap they pull on smaller Asian and African nations that are not in a position of strength and ought to behave as proper vassals is outright unbelievable.

I mean, spycraft is not new of course, and I'm sure the US has a bunch of plants all over China keeping tabs on everything, but these data-driven and grass-roots democracy-hacking tactics are new, and we're still just finding out how insidious and immoral they can be, but there is already no denying that China uses it to explicitly undermine 'dangerous ideologies' like human rights, freedom of thought, and objective history.

Loaded question.

If "math" means rote memorisation of multiplication tables... no, programming does not help with math.

If "programming" means googling code snippets and calling library functions without any understanding of state... no, math does not help with programming.

However, if programming or math means procedures for logical analysis within a system of axioms, then programming IS math.

Probably not super relevant in grade school, but if by high school kids cannot do abstract logic, no amount of numeracy or coding is going to save their critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills.

Yes, corporate censorship is the absolute worst. Getting your anonymous online account banned because your violated Twitch et al. whimsical Terms of Service is totally comparable to being kidnapped from your home by irregular police, being sent to a concentration camp without a fair trial, and disgracing the social credit score of all your relatives to boot. Woe is us and the corporate overlords that we freely subscribe to.

#firstworldproblems

Way to miss the point.

Businesses and consumers only have freedom to pursue their interests through the market insofar as the market is not skewed. But powerful or even controlling interests, with the aim of maximising profit, will exploit whatever power advantage to manipulate, coerce, and/or restructure the market for their own benefit. This erodes the freedom of others within the market. Thus any power imbalance translates into a market imbalance. Thus the ideal of a free-market requires equally balanced opposing interests.

Thus equality is not a Marxist plot, but a hard requirement for actual freedom of behaviour, choice, and well-functioning markets.

Unless you like corporate fascism you better hope its not an unattainable utopia.

I know you are simply exhibiting a knee-jerk reaction to excuse the appalling behaviour of China, but just in case you have some critical thinking ability and are open to improve your worldview, consider this:

1. Pointing out past wrongs of others does not make your present wrongs right, it only shows you can't use your brain. This is very apparent as tu quoque, a failure of simple logic as unreasonable as arguing that 1+1=11.

2. Any reasonably educated American will admit that white people are indeed foreigners to America, and historical injustices are a Bad Thing. This is because shared moral values are important to society, and worrying about appearances and saving face above all else just makes individuals selfish dicks.

3. Human society and standards of behaviours evolve. Just as rape and pillage are not acceptable as they were in ancient times, invading a country and ethnically cleansing the population and culture is not acceptable as it was during imperial times. Since we are not uneducated barbarians, it should be obvious that these are Bad Things and should not happen in a civilised world.

4. Additionally, all attempts to excuse these primitive behaviours boil down to the notion that might is right, which is intrinsically amoral, and obviously a Bad Thing to anyone who is not a total sociopath with delusions of grandeur.

Key lessons here: use your brain, don't be a selfish dick, don't be an uncivilised barbarian, don't be a deluded sociopath. Don't attempt to justify the occupation of Tibet.

Wow, you have no idea what profit is.

Money to do research, testing, marketing, etc comes from REVENUES. Profits, by its very definition, is the icing on the cake AFTER any reinvestment costs.

Its not hypocritical because its not even remotely the same thing.

Every time an American trash talks Trump on social media they get disappeared to a reeducation camp? If the government finds out you belong to a troublesome minority like, say, blacks, you get forcibly sterilised? Maybe one day we will be able to talk openly about Trump Derangement Syndrome instead coming up with highly obfuscated ways to talk about politics, like embedding meaning in cartoons, numbers, and other seemingly harmless codewords? No, not even close.

Even white supremacists are openly retarded about their politics in the US. Think about what this freedom means. And think about a country lacking all of it. And tell me again how trying to find some balance between public security and personal encryption is the exact same thing as going full authoritarian?

Also, if you need evidence, WeChat even had a press release talking about how they are so cool and technologically advanced and use the messaging content on the global application to train their domestic censorship algorithms.