The worst it could do? Take over administration of their ICBMs and fire them off without human prompting.

That spending can't go on forever, especially when China is racking up a ton of debt and is disrupting their own economy with subsidies.

China's economy is more likely to collapse first.

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

Not really. The main point was to question whether the size of a standing army correlates directly to its success in battle.

The Iraqi military collapsed completely. That question is answered.

Yeah, heaven forbid we should actually cure anything.

Yes, neither covid nor influenza were or are good vaccine candidates. It's a shame you got modded to oblivion for saying so.

https://www.science.org/conten...

Did it have better persistence across different strains of influenza? Normal flu vaccines perform quite badly in that department.

An mRNA vaccine for the flu wouldn't necessarily have the same side-effects as the covid-19 mRNA vaccines. No spike proteins to worry about.

Technically, Steam mandates SOME kind of copy protection on all of their games, even if it's something as flimsy as Steamguard. You can't release a DRM-free title on Steam (that I'm aware of).

That being said, barebones Steamguard is a lot better than a full-blown implementation of Denuvo.

As a developer, they're contracting. Their passion for games is gone. They've been choked out by the success of their own storefront.

Yes, they've got Deadlock in perpetual alpha. It'll come out eventually. Competitors looking to steal its thunder (such as Overwatch 2's Stadium mode) are already on the move. By the time Deadlock finally launches, it may be an also-ran in an industry reshaped by its very existence.

If you wish nature to be consistent, then you will (over time) be very disappointed.

Huh? CEOs are most certainly telling people IN PUBLIC that AI will take people's jobs. Especially the ones in the business of selling AI solutions.

Good advice, almost. Big, bloated corporate behemoths want to use AI to replace some of their own workers, but what they fail to realize is that advancing AI tools in the public domain enable smaller independent developers to produce higher-quality software on a much smaller budget. Why waste your time with an $80 title from an MS publisher (or a subscription to Xbox Live) when you can buy a $15-$20 indie title that looks like it came from ~2016 and might actually be fun to play?

In other words, the people getting shitcanned by MS/Xbox should band together and make their own passion projects using the very tools that threaten to replace them.

It would not be the first time. LinkedIn is full of fake profiles for various reasons.

That's a hell of a way to trim headcount: threaten to lay people off (or just go ahead and do it!) and then turn their brains to mush by using their weakened emotional state and gaslighting AI to finally push them over the edge.