It looks like they used a fuck ton of Ray traced light effects to make the game look more natural and realistic. And yeah on a base PS5 which is basically running a RX 6700 or maybe a 3060 equivalent that's going to choke out. I suspect that they thought the PlayStation 6 was going to be out. I don't think anyone saw how much damage AI was going to do to our hobby. And they probably figured by now somebody would be making more RAM but with zero antitrust law enforcement nobody is going to take any chances...

If there was competition in the market then no it wouldn't have done that but the same handful of people own all the grocery stores. Remember we put everything on the stock market and only a handful of people own enough stock that they actually have any kind of a controlling interest. Your 401k does not mean you have a controlling interest..

What does this means in practice is that there is zero competition in grocery shopping. The only limit on prices is the point where people actually start to notice that and stop voting Republican.

So they can fire a whole shitload of people and yeah it's slower for you to sit in the line ringing and bagging your own groceries and it's slower for everyone involved but you need food and they've got it so you have to put up with it.

There are a handful of alternatives but none of them at scale. You can drive an hour or two to a farmer's market I guess. There are expensive boutique grocery stores. Stuff like that. But realistically you're not going to be able to keep yourself fed with those. Not unless you have special circumstances. The majority of the population are stuck with the large grocery chains and they know it.

You could of course try opening your own grocery store chain to compete... Except they will run you out of business with low prices just long enough to bankrupt you and we don't enforce antitrust law.

We spent the last 50 years dismantling our Democratic institutions so that we could indulge in Petty moral panics. We are only just now starting to see the consequences of that. The real fun comes when the stock market finally collapses after the Epstein class is done looting our 401ks. If you're a baby boomer good luck dying before that happens because God knows you can't stop it.

It's just outsourcing, H1-Bs and age discrimination fueled layoffs. AI is a great cover for that.

Also Trump is wrecking the economy and nobody wants to acknowledge that because he's a vindictive psycho that nobody will stand up to.

We all know what they're doing.

Oh I'm still bad at it it takes me an inordinate amount of time to make something that is barely presentable.

The fact that I can make something barely presentable in entirely too much time doesn't make me good at it.

I still just don't understand what Torvalds is saying here. It doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement of AI. It sounds like he tried to use it and it didn't work. Maybe he just thinks it's a cool new thing and he doesn't fear it taking his job or his water and electricity since he's pretty high up on the totem pole...

And one damn thing I wanted AI to do for me was to make lovely documents for me so I didn't have to try doing it. So far it can't really do it. If I really screw around with it I can get it to do it but then I could have just done it myself.

And that's been my experience with AI so far. If I really screw around with it I can get it to do what I wanted to do but I could have just done it myself in the first place. And since I have to check all the work it's doing it's just not worth the effort.

I've been told if you put a bunch of effort into getting it to work it will work but what the hell is the point of that? Meanwhile eventually it's not going to be cheap and unless I want to spend 3 Grand on video card that can run one of the models I'm stuck paying through the nose...

I'm not sure I get what Torvalds is saying here either. Did I misread it? He said he gave AI The prompt and it did it but it was horrendous. Implying that it was worse than the work he did himself. What's the point then? If it can't solve the part I don't want to do and it's incredibly expensive doing that badly I just don't see the point... I guess it takes people who can't do a thing and makes them feel like they could do the thing. And I guess if you're a business man that's a good thing because you can theoretically expand the number of people you can hire to do a thing or just get rid of them all together plummeting wages.

But again, I don't see how that's a good thing either. Especially in a world where if you don't work you don't eat and people tend to start wars when they can't eat...

Even before AI they cranked out nothing but slop for fortnite. Skin after skin after skin and they only started making anything else when fortnite skin sales started to drop and like every publicly traded company on Earth they have to grow endlessly and at the exact same or better rates than they did last cycle.

Our entire economic system is built on endless highly rapid growth to keep the Epstein class fed. Basically we're all running from the dragon hoping it eats The Hobbit before it eats us. And it's looking like it's done with all the hobbits and we're next on the menu...

The ruling class has decided AI is going to replace us. One of them just casually spent close to $300 million on the midterm elections without so much as a second thought. Your individual purchases are completely irrelevant to the face of that.

This isn't something the free market can solve. It is a fundamental shift in human society and culture. Rugged individualism can only take you so far. And it turns out you can't actually pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. That used to be a joke but we took it way too fucking seriously...

Great news! In the very near future there will be no human generated earnings. Everything will be owned by a handful of the Epstein class members and the rest of us will fall over ourselves to see if we can get just a tiny piece of their glorious wealth.

At least that's the goal anyway. Remember the problem AI is designed to solve as you. Your wages. That is the problem AI is designed to solve.

No matter how little you have it's still too much for Elon Musk and other members of the Epstein class. And yes even though he was too creepy to get an island invite he is still part of the Epstein class.

Although I got to say Jesus fucking Christ just how creepy do you have to be to get turned down for Epstein island?

Not just the elections. Russia spreads vaccine misinformation and does tons of posts to make people angry and upset so that they will cause problems in society in general. It is absolutely insane that we allow them to operate in our country uncontested just because it's useful for the Republican party but here we are...

Russia heavily influences US elections via social media and since it benefits the Republican party they're allowed to do it.

Ukraine is taking them offline for the election, which is brilliant. Several close races will probably go blue now

Remember, Putin was in charge of information warfare at the KGB. And we all know he's sitting on unredacted Epstein files.

It's what NASDAQ will allow. You don't have a choice, unless you're going to completely take over managing your retirement portfolio yourself. And there's a good reason most people don't do that

We already lost. We lost when half the country lost their minds over around 34 trans girls who might potentially play in sports. If a moral panic that's stupid can work I don't know what the fuck you do.

I remember watching the trans panic develop. Forget for a moment your opinion on the subject and just focus on the raw political mechanics of it. Start to think like a political strategist who is trying to achieve a goal instead of a person.

At first the main push against trans girls, and it was always girls, was the bathroom bills and that they were just icky. That didn't work. Voters got pissed off that politicians wasted their time instead of talking about and fixing the economy.

But the political strategists knew they had something because their focus groups clearly indicated something was there so they kept at it.

Eventually they figured out something called rapid onset gender dysphoria which is a fancy way of saying they can turn your kid trans. That scared the living shit out of parents because realistically we know how society treats trans people and nobody wants their kids to be trans even if they're fine with trans people in general.

They also brought out trans women in sports. Two sporting agencies allowed recent conversions to compete and they just blasted through all the records because of course they did. It doesn't matter that the sporting agencies in question pretty quickly invalidated the records the damage was done.

So now I keep getting ads during election season about such and such trans or whatnot, the popular one is that they're going to mutilate my kids.

They're currently trying to do it with the furries I'm not sure how successful they will be but it's the exact same playbook. And it is a playbook. It's a series of tactics and processes for creating a moral panic.

It would be fascinating to watch if it wasn't completely fucking Up My Life by putting absolute psychopaths in charge of everything. Oh and it's not good for the trans people either.

SpaceX did the same thing. Basically you take a massively overvalued company with no path to profitability at the levels required for the evaluation or in the case of anthropic or it all and then you use your status as a member of the Epstein class to get put into one of the major indexes like NASDAQ so we are all forced to buy it with our 401ks unless we want to manually take over stock selection which if we were going to do that we wouldn't be employees or workers would be day traders...

What's frustrating is how many people do not realize they're about to lose everything. The Epstein class has had enough with you having nice things. They're going to take everything from you.

honestly I could give a rat's ass if morons want to sell their possessions and give them to psychopathic tech bro and finance bro imbeciles but they're dragging me into it too and I can't stop them.

It's like How at Jones Town it turned out a lot of people didn't want to commit suicide and they used guns and violence to force them to drink the Kool-Aid or just lied to them about the Kool-Aid being poisoned.

And yeah I know it was flavor aid. You're still drinking it you fucking morons... And you're still making me drink it at the barrel of a gun.

Seriously that's a level of creepy weirdo that I can't even begin to imagine. I think that might be what keeps some of the nerds around here on the Elon Musk train. They think he's like them because well this is a website for nerds and some of us, myself included, are kind of weird and creepy. But they don't understand the difference between being harmless weird and creepy and Elon Musk or JD Vance weird and creepy.

It's the difference between awkwardly hitting on girls and actively using abuser tactics...