As disastrous as Destiny, Overwatch, Warframe, War Thunder, Darktide, Rocket League, Fortnight, Minecraft, Ubisoft, Bethesda, Blizzard, Microsoft, EA, Epic ... Valve.

In other words, it will happen. If not this game then the next, because the PC gaming collective has the memory of a goldfish and we like logging into things to play our games.

Your mom has a Battle.net account

It's concerning that nobody else sees the irony of logging into Steam to protest a game requiring a connected account to play.

Your boos mean nothing, I’ve seen what makes you cheer.

AI doesn't give you a window to reality. LLM generates text that looks like an answer to your question. Whether it's ugly or not has dick to do with reality and everything to do with training the model to give ugly responses or not. You can make it sound like anything you want, know it all or know nothing. Dude, any modern LLM can explain its answers, just ask one, it will generate a response that looks like it explains itself. It might even seem rational. If the language the model was trained on was, there's a good chance it will look rational.

It's like you're asking for statistics, I can give you a hundred that are accurate and still leave you with the wrong picture, as in one that isn't the one you want. You want ugly statistics, ok.... sure, but they're not more real than the pretty ones. If you want real, use your own internal model based on your own perception and experiences, that's as close as you get. Language, statistics, they're not real. From LLM, generative AI, full blown general machine intelligence, to genuine human intelligence, it doesn't matter, none are your magic crystal ball and never will be. It's an AI trope that needs to die.

What do you mean irredeemable, we'll be dead. It will be a little too late to persuade us, and that doesn't make us right. Every asshole that beat his wife might have said your words. They're not right now, they weren't right then. It's too late for them, it's not too late for you.

There are things we do in our own lifetime that we live to regret. Living a life without regrets doesn't mean die a sociopath incapable of introspection. I might disagree with future me, but I'll be dead. Right now, the golden rule applies, don't be a dick.

No, it was not, you're dead wrong and confusing prevalence with necessity. You should feel ashamed of yourself.

What changed? Take a hypothetical Mars colony for example. It will be a challenging time for sure, a closed system isolated from everything on Earth, and everyone will have to carry their weight. Will slavery be a necessity? What scenario will EVER justify forcing labor under a whip?

There is no one point in time in human history that we can never see again, history always repeats. Slavery is always wrong. Slavery is never necessary. All civilization on Earth can fail and start over, slavery will never be necessary. You cannot justify it today, you cannot justify in the future and you cannot justify it in the past. It happened, it doesn't have to, PERIOD.

That's an ignorant take on the situation.

Like saying you're afraid of a direct war with the jerk that stole your parking space. It's not a statement about being able to win a brawl in the parking lot, that's dumb. What you plan to do to his car when he goes inside, that's smart.

Putin has to make the same calculations, he can cry in his milk about arms moving to Ukraine but all he can do are these little hacking escapades.

The best art is done for the love of it.
The best engineering is done by highly motivated professionals.

Zero commercial value doesn't bring those together.

No, it's just a name, but putting "Pro" in the name was 100% intentional and Apple's way of letting you know, they know, it's over the top.

I'm sure they missed their sales targets, I'm not sure they will release a regular, what .. $2000 version now? But that would have been the one they'd hoped for mass appeal.

That's like calling a 100" tv a "solution looking for a problem", which is basically a compliment for something that is obviously an expensive toy for rich people. I'm not pretending it's a solution to literally anything. It's a big screen, it's really cool, and I like it, and I'm fortunate enough to play with these things.

Will it have mass market appeal? No.. a $3500 head mounted display will not ... duuuuuhhh.......,

While you bait some contrarian into a contrived utility story, why are you talking about utility and VR headsets at all? It's not a something on the kitchen countertop or workshop wall has to go to make room type of decision, it's 110% entertainment.

It's like deciding between a 85" tv or a 55" tv, you don't need either. "But I can extend my work computer's display to it" is bullshit there too, but so is acting like a bigass display is something one buys for utility.

No they will not, and it will be more like the first to "discover" manned, powered flight. It will have a bunch of qualifiers in the same vein because everyone and their brother are simultaneously figuring out different parts of the equation. Then what do we do next with the tech will be a similar evolutionary arc with a lot of players.

IDK what you're trying to say here. The reality is going to be a lot like the invention of the airplane. Governments are as forward looking as the people that make them up, and those are valid concerns for planners and policy makers in any government. AI is just not going to be an overnight secret super weapon that tips the balance of power. Nobody sane is thinking about it that way, and it has no bearing on reality.

Man this is getting too many levels of stupid.

I'm getting tired arguing with people about whether ChatGPT is even useful on one hand and the hyperbolical comic book evil of "true" "AGI" on the other. Sometimes the same person. I quote AGI because by the end you'll need to move the goal posts and invent several more ways to describe imaginary threats once talking to a human with built-in Google gets as boring as you know it will in a week. We'll be crying about how Bill, the AGI, is totally useless good for nothing that refuses to answer dumbass race baiting questions and isn't "true", "True", seriously this time, AGIRTFM++ with Singularity functionality that will kill us all.

REPLACED!? As-fucking-if. How? It's job security. Terraform creates jobs. It creates work, and it has lots of friends! Devops automation does not replace IT workers because terraform modules, CI/CD pipelines and all the other god damned yaml don't write themselves. They certainly don't maintain themselves, they're very fragile, and impede change.

No, sir, I have my hand firmly up terraform's ass and am absolutely covered with cloudy stink. It's like working with your hands wearing a sticky mitten.

Now I'm going to do you a favor and forget you used patching and terraform in the same paragraph because terraform and up-to-date are not things that go together. There is something to be said about security and declarative configuration management in general though, it's about being a backstop, not saving time. Terraform's model makes it really shitty at both. As you said, "than manual configuration", as if it's one or the other, because terraform makes you think like that. This is not a problem for stateless declarative configuration frameworks, just go to the desired state, eventual consistency, be the backstop. Terraform makes you do everything directly through it up front, slow as molasses, or pay later with sketchy imports.

Enshitification requires something to be good first, this doesn't apply to shitty cloud software. Being the least shit out of shittier options is not good.

I mean if IBM's explicit goal was to buy good software and turn it to shit, there isn't much juice to squeeze out of hard devops turds.

I do think the techie / scifi sensibility plays a lot into all this. But the cosmos doesn't owe anything to the fantasies of scifi authors (or the linguistic particulars that make one tech sound more like "the future" than another one, like batteries).

Information tech played out much differently than 20c scifi pictured it. Same for transportation (incl. space flight and cars).