While I consider myself to be "left" I think that the idea that 90% of "the media" was bought by "the right" is outright paranoia.

Up to a couple of years ago the main complaint was that "the left" controlled the media - and now it's turned around completely?

I am based in Europe though, where "the left" still pretty much owns the field - to the great annoyance of our own "right" parties. So YMMV.

Unless I am mistaken, Linux, in Steam terms, includes, and in fact is mostly made up by their own Proton impl.

But, say: PornHub says 22% of their users is Linux? Weird. I'd say on Desktop, this would be important; but on mobile, I'd say the numbers are way too low. So... where did you get that number from?

Can someone explain to a non-native speaker what "must face" means in this context?

I mean, obviously if a lawsuit is filed against them they have to DEAL with it, or REACT to it, but ... "must face" somehow implies to me that there is an option of not having to "face" it, which means they can... ignore it? Somehow?

Or does "face" mean something different here?

I agree. I do not understand why the use of AI in this way would create such a backlash.

Also, there are so many American movies in which the foreign accents are TERRIBLE and in some cases even in the entirely wrong language that's claimed (I remember "The Thomas Crown Affair", where the person spoke Swiss German and it was claimed to be Hungarian). So they get massive points for trying to do it properly, with or without AI.

> "my proof"?

Threw me as well. I mean he's a professor, shouldn't he have SOME training in the scientific method? The actual paper is behind a paywall, but even if he was to map the AI reasoning in math and prove that, it's still an interpretation. Working with absolutes like "proof" is exactly what makes people turn away from "scientific results". He might even be aware of that, because he says "my proof SUGGESTS"... the proof only "suggests"?

Shame, really. I think Philosophy can and in fact does make really interesting contributions to the AI debate, and it should, since this is the first potential "alien" intelligence available.

Do you know of any empirical studies that have compared the IQ of ChatGPT on common tasks with people of IQ 80, 90, etc.? Please link.

Yes. Outstanding achivement.

I get that episodic gaming is dead, but I still feel like they should create Episode 3, or let someone else do it, for the story's sake.

Thank you, came here to say this. This is so obviously the solution. Have a proper RAID set up, update failing discs, and you're all set for the future.

This being slashdot, I'm surprised that no-one mentions downloads/rips and keeping the media on a NAS or equivalent. Seems like the obvious technical solution. If you keep upgrading discs every couple years, you can keep you stuff indefinitely.

Having said that, I believe I bought Star Wars about 5 times now for the full price (Cinema, VHS, DVD, BluRay, Streaming). Once for the IP and then a minor fee for each copy would be preferable. Same goes for books, by the way - a Kindle version and the paper copy each contain the IP costs. Why?

There is nothing "weird" about this. From your post it sounds like you were very well off and able to afford, and been able to buy, the latest stuff. Nothing wrong with that, but many of us didn't have any money and had to beg their parents for purchases, who went for used stuff. So we got stuff late.

I just remembered that I actually got caught in French class (I was based in Germany at that time) writing code. This must have been early 1990s.

The teacher was pissed, I can tell you. How dare I write "stuff for your computer" in class. Well, she was right.

I'm 44 now and still write code, so it did not hurt.

This article makes it sound like they knew, at the time, the challenges of coding on an Appple IIgs. Spoiler: They did not.

Jeez. There were thousands of us at the time trying to code stuff on any of the availabe PCs at the time. I did a vertical scroller at that age for an 8088. Others had Ataris or even Commodore hardware. We had no clue about what else was out there. We just used what was available to us.

I get the pain, I really do. But don't try to sell this up as "I got handed an Apple IIgs at that time... booooooo... I was so bad off!".