audaxdreik

@audaxdreik@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking about this the other day, one of my favorite analogies is seconds.

  A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. A trillion seconds is … 31,688 years.

  The analogy already breaks down, because while most people could understand 12 days and a lot of adults can understand 31 years for having lived it (some even twice or more!), 31,688 years is completely incomprehensible again. How many human generations is that? All of recorded human history is only like 5,000 years. It’s utterly, mind-numbingly insane. No trillionaires, ever! No billionaires!!!

  www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/business/…/index.html

  This was published on September 17th of this year, after most of the nonsense of Twitter and utter things. He’s still on track, by 2027 no less. There’s no telling how directly and flagrantly he’ll benefit from a Trump win, either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring: Shadows of the Erdtree will come with a day 1 patch with various improvements⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This kind of infuriates me. On rare occasions loading into the game (unmodified) it’ll glitch out and forget to render the borders for a good 5 minutes or until first teleport. Like come on! I can see it! I know you’re doing it!

  Another game, Code Vein (shut up, I love it, just embrace some trash from time to time) did the same thing. I could tell because the layering was messed up and your partner’s nameplate would render over the black borders by mistake …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Other backers include OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

  WTF, no, this is worse in every way. So instead of being involved with the people and topics I choose, it’s instead left up to an algorithm? Somehow even more opaque than usual because of AI involvement.

  This isn’t solving any problem, this is yet another mask to push content in front of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steamworks Development - AI Content on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Disappointing, but somehow inevitable.

  "This will enable us to release the vast majority of games that use it. "

  So it sounds like the floodgates are opening and now it’ll be up to the users to sort out the flood of BS. None of this is truly surprising, while I’m not cynical enough to suggest their temporary stance was a quick way to score some easy points with the anti-AI crowd, we all kind of have to acknowledge that this technology is coming and Steam is too big to be left behind by it. It stands to reason.

  I also understand the reasoning for splitting pre/live-generated AI content, but it’s all going to go in the same dumpster for me regardless.

  I certainly think it’s possible to use pre-generated AI content in an ethical and reasonable way when you’re committed to having it reach a strong enough stylistic and artistic vision with editors and artists doing sufficient passes over it. The thing is, the people already developing in that way would continue to do so because of their own standards, they won’t be affected by this decision. The people wanting to use generative AI to pump out quick cash grabs are the ones that will latch onto it, I can’t think of any other base this really appeals to.