I always found fiberglass to be one of the coolest materials and it's my understanding that it degrades very very slowly, I'm quite surprised by this.

Just his name makes him a copy cat magnet tbh.

This fits really well since Trump would make a great troll

AGI is software with human like intelligence that can self-improve and the last two years is very measurable progress. We went from essentially nothing to multimodal models that can run on consumer hardware. OpenAIs new model, if they are to believed, is apparently much better at reasoning and can do long term research. I've also seen a few papers in the wild talking about self teaching methods and framework.

To be clear, I don't know which will come first. It's hard to know if the next leap is just a step or if there's a giant chasm laying infront. I do know that it's a lot easier to prototype with AI then fusion and there's a lot more people working on it, both behind closed doors and publically on the internet. Fusion doesn't have this advantage.

Your statement is basically a shot in the dark imo.

Point 2 and 3 are legit, especially the part about not having a roadmap, a lot of what's going on is pure improvisation at this point and trying different things to see what sticks. The grid is a problem but fixing it is long over due. In any case, these companies will just build their own if the government can't get its head out of it's ass and start fixing the problem (Microsoft is already doing this).

The last two point specifically point to this person being someone that doesn't know the technology just like what they are accusing others of being.

It's already replacing people. You don't need it to do all the work, it will still bring about layoffs if it gives the ability for one person to do the job of 5. It's already affecting jobs like concept artist and every website that used to have someone at the end of their chat app now has an LLM. This is also only the start, it's the equivalent of people thinking computers won't affect the workforce in the early 90s. It won't hold up for long.

The data point is also quit a bold statement. Anyone keeping abreast with the technology knows that it's now about curating the datasets and not augmenting them. There's also a paper that comes out everyday about new training strategies which is helping a lot more than a few extra shit posts from Reddit.

And you base this on what? Both things are very hard to predict even for experts in the respective fields.

My point is that it isn't charity. It's just a smart business decision that reduces their cost greatly and let's the community work for them for free. With all the licenses involved, I don't even think they can even add a charge.

If they could have built the same product but closed source, they would have.

I love FOSS and in the end this benefits he community, I just don't think that was the driving factor behind the decision and it doesn't excuse them bleeding dry developers and colluding with other store fronts.

I completely agree with you. UBI is overall a good idea, I just think UBI alone won't be enough to properly deal with massive job loss and certain aspects of our economic systems are going to greatly reduce its impact. It's a very complicated problem and we have some serious decisions to make, it's further complicated by the fact that the best solutions will probably end up dealing a blow to the billionaire class and big corporations and they will most likely fight tooth and nail to keep the status quo.

Less than 400 employees with 8500 million in revenue while the indie industry struggles backs it up.

The fact that Gaben is a multi billionaire backs it up.

No one becomes a billionaire through hard work, it's stolen wealth. Ask yourself if your arguments can be just as easily applied to bezos, it might give you some perspective on how insane it is to be defending Gaben and his ridiculously fat stack of cash.

Instead of circle jerking it with your buddy, why don't you point out where I'm wrong.

To be clear these are my own opinions and I clearly think Epic Games should be regulated just like the other platforms.

I think all the platforms are predatory and taking advantage (except gog), it's you guys that are giving steam a free pass when they are at best slightly better than the others but still shit. I guess bootlicking is easy if steams marketing team convinces you it's in your best interest.

Oh 100%, I'm just saying his use of the word is in no way wrong like half the comments seem to imply. Everyone knew exactly what he meant and the definition is in most dictionaries.

This seems to pop up everytime the word is used and it's a major pet peeve of mine.

My comment is only aimed at those that think third world only means the historical definition when that hasn't been the case for at least two decades. The word third world is almost always used to mean developing country in day to day conversation.

My main fear is how this will affect renting and house ownership. Rents will probably go up as UBI comes into play and what's left won't be enough to save for any kind of down deposit. I doubt UBI will be enough for monthly mortgage payments in any case.

It's already very hard to move past the renting stage, I imagine it will be impossible once on UBI.

The cast would be comprised of land and business owners. Again, it's already almost the case, I just think UBI without careful considerations would amplify it.