In a different world this could be somewhat interesting. Or maybe even in this world, but in half a milenium, maybe. Can’t imagine what we got rn ever outperforming a phone with a Bluetooth earbud

Thank you very much, I want people to start actually linking the articles they talk about instead of focusing on the headline - the thing that is the reason term clickbait now exists

Anyway, I think this is the article on the screenshot:

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/microsoft-ceo-warns-that-we-must-do-something-useful-with-ai-or-theyll-lose-social-permission-to-burn-electricity-on-it/

The study compares rate of sycophancy of AI compared to human responses, the point is not to say only AI does it, it is to say that it focuses on pleasing more than actual humans do and that has adverse effects

It does not say humans are good at it, but that AI is worse

If you define all desire as sexual then of course art is sexual too, no? Aside from that, commissions are art too, and yet they are driven by economical factors. Similalry, sexual drives can influence economic decisions (alpha male scam is all about that for example). It might be so that those nitpicks are mostly results of me not fully getting your point (because to be fair I also don’t see what’s revolutionary about it), but either one of us has to get better at communicating (it might be me, idk)

As a side note, you might enjoy Schopenhauer’s theory of aesthetics, there are some parallels here (I forgor what was the text tho)

Still better than just based on brits

1. Gavrilo Princip did not work alone, 2. That was 112 years ago.

It’s not about sympathy, singular acts of violence are not usually effective at driving change. A whole movement using threats of violence as leverage tho?

“poured”? Alright, I don’t need to know

Yea I keep seeing people talking as if US is hanging by a thread and I genuinely don’t get it. As for the revival of feudalism, they share similar goals, that’s a big “what if”, but maybe you know more than I do

Chief, who exactly are the “jewish extremists” that want to bring Armageddon? That words refers specifically to end of days in christian, not jewish beliefs. I am fairly certain you are in fact thinking about evangelical zionists, and if Im right you have to be much more careful about your language, because to anyone lacking context you sound too much like a nazi. If I am wrong, then damn, im not sure if you aren’t one. In what way exactly US is collapsing? It’s not at its greatest, but not every crisis ends up in a collapse. You also list a bunch of topics to research, most of which I have some basic concept of and a lot of which would need a lot of time to fully understand. You certainly can’t be referring to how psychology used to not be distinct from philosophy, or how schools like behaviorism or psychoanalysis came to be (unless it’s about Freud and maybe others being jewish? I doubt, but you are really imprecise) And the biggest elephant in the room, what holy war iluminati???

I dont get it

One upset dude that had no real plan, just wanted revenge. So far his only long term impact is inspiring memes, the CEO got replaced and there’s hardly a difference - singular actions are not an actual threat to the system.

The picture quality is not great either, I don’t think it succeeds in showing the scale of destruction at all

Alright bud, you got me, I think fiction specifically designed as dystopian with well explained mechanisms of how it resists change gets to be more pessimistic than reality

Yes, I am aware, specifically a satire of it, no?

I rarely play AAA games, especially ones made by Ubisoft. I did spend some time with the first one tho and yeah, I can see it being classified as “early stage cyberpunk”, but it’s quite far from the aesthetic of the genre I have in mind, my favorite cyberpunk games being Ruiner (and Shadowrun but that also has orks and magic, so ya know). Perhaps am a genre purist

And yet all that resistance ends up translating to individualistic defiance, sabotaging one power just to reluctantly grant advantage to another, sometimes terrorism. I guess if we strayed far enough from the common tropes of the genre, then yes you are right. But remember what is the origin of the genre - to my understanding, in its core it exists as satirical critique of neoliberal policy. I dunno, it feels essential to me, but genres are constructed

Its 2 words!! Does plain water cross culinary boundaries?

Im no scholar of the genre I dont think marxism can fix cyberpunk, im gonna be honest. You strike - you get gunned down by robotized police force, and even if you weren’t it ain’t like there ain’t people hungry enough to take your job. Solidarity of the people is completely eroded by the fact that you have to fight with others just like you for basic resources. Individuality is all people have left, sometimes not even that. There is no law beyond money. Where do you even start trying?

I think its very telling that it is a prominent issue in their military, not just because of what they are responsible for - if the problem is so bad that they need random people to send them postcards, how are they treating them? Are they even doing the bare minimum?