Wait until every camera around you is used to track the eyeballs of every person in a store and everywhere.

There will be AI watching what you are currently looking at, looking at that booty? Ai will know who, and how often you look, there will be lists that will measure this.
It will go under the disguise of crime prevention, and also what goods customers want and desire.

Looking at that booty or that box of Cereal? That observation goes somewhere.

Someone suspects you of something? They can look at the statistics.
This also goes for Meta Glasses wearers - your direction and what you look at can be recorded all the time, and metrics can be done.

These cryptocurrency payments can't be used to fund terror and evade sanctions since all the transactions are public on the blockchain! Also, would anyone like to buy a bridge?

Yes, a fair voicing of "opinions" on labor conditions between one human and one globe-spanning immortal megacorporation. Very fair.

Only true for goods and services where there is perfectly inelastic demand, which kind of doesn't exist. Even demand for fuel is somewhat elastic. Health care has about the least elastic demand. Junk from Amazon has highly elastic demand.

This would certainly happen to a large degree, otherwise Amazon could price themselves out of competitiveness fairly easily.

If you make your money by owning rather than by working, that's true. Higher wages reduce business owners' income, at least in the short term. So next time someone has that opinion, find out what they do for a living. They'll probably say they "run" something.

That would add the requirement for the central repository as infrastructure which is probably not worth it bandwidth/storage-wise when so many gaming PCs are likely to be online at any time, but the possibility of a malware vector (or some kind of sabotage, maybe people would try to DoS a game by sharing corrupted compiled shaders as a form of protest) is worth considering with or without it.

BOINC protects against errors or sabotage in their distributed computing system by having 2 random different users both run the same task and ensuring that the results from both match before accepting the result. This requires centralized infrastructure, but a duplicated work verification system like this could work. Imagine the centralized system acts as a trusted private torrent tracker, only verifying a shader and making it publicly accessible once multiple uploads match. That would make uploading invalid shaders almost impossible since a group would need to conspire to do it with exclusive earliest-possible access to the game/driver/hardware combo.

Those aren't reasons for everyone to be compiling on their own. In a BitTorrent-like system nobody would be "keeping" shaders they aren't using, just sharing shaders they've compiled because they're using them. If nobody's ever done it before for the hardware/driver combination then you fall back to compilation and then share your results so others can benefit and the same work doesn't have to be done again.

Plus most users are probably on one of the latest driver versions so there would be far more hardware than driver variation.

Just like how WaPo eventually went from an assurance that nothing would change to blocking an endorsement of Kamala Harris to no longer publishing any opinions that were insufficiently pro-"free market" for Bezos' taste:

https://www.ms.now/opinion/msn...

On a related note I thought the idea of an IT staffer having time to play CoD at work was a laughably retro idea. In the post-pandemic era anyone who still has an IT job is being worked to the bone.

Yep, The Island and Altered Carbon (also an excellent TV series) were the first two works of sci-fi that came to mind, but Altered Carbon is a much closer match where the clones were brainless vs. The Island (if I say any more it'd be a major spoiler for sure, even mentioning that it contains the concept is a bit of a spoiler).

Probably humanoid robots, it's already happening in China:

https://jingdaily.com/posts/ch...

A bunch of stock-trading bots and quick-fingered suits probably just flinched and dumped a couple hundred billion into ARM stock though. See also: the company formerly known as Long Island Iced Tea.

It's indeed a "Duh" moment for sure. We remember this happened to the printed news and the musical industry who refused to embrace the new digital format.

It's always like that with anything old, it will cling onto it's old ways and old times, because it's their business model, when a business model no longer is viable and they failed to find a new way to create a new model, this is inevitable.

The same happens to broadcast media, here in our country they finally moved to "forced pay via taxes" because their model no longer works, they had for decades used so called TV-License vans, meaning they would actively seek out who had a television and did not pay for the TV License with so called TV Detection Vans, they would be equipped with RF radio gear to look for the local oscillator found in a Television to detect who secretly watched TV and ring their doorbell to get them to report themselves or face fines.

This happened in Denmark over 15+ years ago when the state enforced TV License was moved to the mandatory "Taxes" instead of an separate bill in the mail.
Happened in Sweden about 7+ years ago, they finally caved and did the same - moved the Mandatory TV License as an "internet media bill" instead which is added as tax into the national taxing system so everyone is forced to pay for "Public Service".

It's he old Elite of people who decides who gets to be employed and approved as artists, who gets to distribute the "official news" etc. Gov don't like to lose control of that, when people moved to other medias, most people got fiber and got rid of their Antennas country wide, the Gov saw it and thought, dammit - we can't have this, we must get payment somehow, so let's introduce it into the Tax system instead - to be permanently mandatory.

BTW it turns out that DLSS5 isn't working with any texture properties/layers or geometry meshes, it's taking finished frames with motion data and hitting it with a slop filter, which is why it adds hair to one side of a guy's head where it wasn't before and makes a nostril look oddly huge when a shadow makes it hard to see where it ends:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The AI data centers mostly run on natural gas burned in on-site turbines, this could hasten the AI bubble popping.