…Yeah man I’m American, don’t worry, you’ll never catch me arguing that America isn’t a racist country lol. This place fucking sucks, and that’s one of the big reasons why.

Like I said I truly do not care about Pewdiepie. I don’t want anything bad to happen to him, I wouldn’t go out of my way to make anything good happen for him, he’s just irrelevant to me and that’s fine for both of us I imagine.

Though I will say that if you elect to “not give a damn” about other people being exposed to racial slurs which make them feel dehumanized though, you’re an asshole and a privileged one at that. Just because it may not be particularly relevant in your culture (though, back on 420chan [I’m old], I remember Swedish people whining nonstop about the Somali immigrants in their country, so I’m not sure I’m entirely convinced that it isn’t a Swedish issue too) doesn’t mean you shouldn’t care about how it can hurt other people. Especially when said by someone with a global audience, especially when that global audience is largely children or teenagers.

But also, to reiterate my reiteration: I do not care about Pewdiepie and am not suggesting he be exiled from humanity, only that he probably shouldn’t do that again. Which it sounds like he hasn’t, so… good?

not pay money better than pay money

I don’t really do it as a “protest”, I do it because I do not respect the law and because being a criminal is cool, but corporations are “leadership of [my] country” and anything that deprives them of any money at all is an effective protest.

Let’s take the absolutely-totally-hypothetical example of pirating Star Trek: Strange New Worlds instead of getting a subscription for Paramount Plus. Paramount is owned by the Ellisons, and Larry Ellison is closer to “leadership of [my] country” than anyone sitting in the White House.

so he cant get my $8 per month or whatever, that’ll show him

I mean the structure of the technology itself. It’s a chatbot.

And anyway, as far as future capabilities go, that’s just their opinion. And as far as that goes,

I would give less credence to the opinions of people whose financial interests are vested in you believing AI is magic.

…are you serious?

It learns, sure… and it’s already learned as much as it can from the entire internet, and still can’t run a Taco Bell drivethrough.

Apparently in the AI world, they are expecting it’s capabilities to double every 7 months. I saw a list of steps

Yeah, and in the cryptocurrency world, they predicted that Bitcoin would currently be worth $200k - $300k, potentially as high as 400k - 1mil in high-greed environments.

Instead, it is almost exactly at the value of their “Bitcoin Dead” level lol

I would give less credence to the opinions of people whose financial interests are vested in you believing AI is magic.

It’s learning the basics right now, but humans are training the AI to the point that it will replace them, then the next level of humans will train the next level until replaces them

Humans are more than just chatbots. Therefore even the most advanced chatbot will never replace us.

Which is not to say that I think humans are the supreme possible intelligence, or that machine intelligence could never surpass us. I just do not believe that the current LLM’s we have are capable of achieving anything resembling actual thought, just a decently convincing mimicry of it.

It’s also not to say that I think no jobs will be lost, but I think they’ll be situations like where a QA department reduces its workforce by 75% but then the remaining 25% are still expected to oversee the AI’s output. It’s still a shit outcome economically (though I’d also reference that quote, “Imagine how badly we had to fuck up to create a world where the robots taking all the jobs is a bad thing”), but it’s not the same as actually rivaling us in cognition or intellectual capacity.

In a few years, well all be replaced, except a lucky few who do the maintenance

And a few years before 2016, everyone who bought Bitcoin was going to be driving a Lamborghini.

I still see more Priuses and Corollas on the road these days.

Piggybacking on this to say the vast majority of “a tree planted for every _______” schemes are also greenwashing bullshit, including Ecosia if I’m not mistaken.

Most plant monocrops with no regard for how a natural, healthy forest functions and generally take no care to make sure the trees actually reach maturity or even adolescence.

There are exceptions, some companies who actually do it right (though carbon credits are a bullshit poison concept regardless), but I imagine most big companies use the corner-cutting options.

from a legal standpoint, authorities frown upon such behaviour;

“the people who molest and murder children on islands wouldn’t like it if I got something for free, so I won’t”

I agree with the first two paragraphs, but as for the third, I think you overestimate the capability of chatbots on steroids. I’d even go so far as to say that promoting the whole “imminent replacement for humanity” narrative is doing their marketing for them. It couldn’t even run a Taco Bell drivethrough.

The person I was responding to said

I personally love him for being the same guy all this years.

My point was not necessarily that he needs to be excommunicated from humanity, but that they might want to reconsider whether him “being the same guy all this years” is a good thing

(I do not actually give a single shit about Pewdiepie in any fashion positive or negative)

You can also use it to disable JavaScript which lets you bypass maybe 60 - 70% of paywalled news articles

You sure about that?

I havent, but it’s not really the getting my ass beat that turns me off from the games, it’s more the

not really having fun while it happens lmao. Even when I first started playing BF3, I’d still have exciting moments between the repeat deaths on deaths on teamkills on deaths. Soulslike games have, for me, usually just felt like a slog and a grind. Maybe it’s just because I havent gotten good at them, quite likely really, but the barrier to entry just doesn’t seem worth surmounting to me when there are so many other games to play out there without the barrier to entry.

I’m sorry, I gotta be honest, that only makes me like it way more

Any Soulslike anything. I have gotten my ass beaten by enemy NPCs in Smash Bros, and I have gotten my ass beaten by enemy players in Battlefield, and I stuck around with both until I got quite good (Smash Bros more than Battlefield, but still).

But Dark Souls, Demon Souls, Elden Ring… I’ve actually owned all of them and played none of them for more than a few hours at most. I got the furthest with Elden Ring but it’s just not fun, it’s harder than Smash Bros but about as fun as Ghost of Tsushima combat - which is to say, not very fun.

Oh also, Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla or whatever the viking themed one was. I’m not a picky AC player, I loved the originals and I loved Origins and I loved many (though not all) in between those. But the viking one just had the slowest, least satisfying combat in the world. Which sucked since I’m Danish American, can’t even live out digital viking fantasies, but pirate fantasies are a decent second I guess.

On the flip side, the Stanley Parable is so good that I haven’t finished it because it makes my brain feel like it’s tripping but in a disorienting and uncomfortable way. It’s so good but I cant handle it for too long.

Same, loved the story, loved the writing, but the combat was so awful I couldnt play it for very long

What? Which part? Summoning tsunamis? It’s not that fun I’m afraid.