Experts in both fields have significant paychecks on the line for people believing them. Of the two, fusion is the only one showing (very minor) measurable progress.

We can't even define what success would look like for AGI.

Oh look, it's the semi-annual "we fucked up" press release. Please take us back, we promise we'll only be abusive when you really deserve it. 🤮

Devil's advocate: Why would we want to give AI image generators free hueristics to help them make themselves less detectable?

"She died in childbirth"

*enraged train horn noises*

I would assume only for vegans who are committed to being elitist about it.

I don't know your situation, but my rule of thumb after having burned myself out is that if I'm not being paid for the time I'm not taking that time.

It makes me sad to see so much of AAA game dev boiled down to business metrics. I'm sure a lot of it was marketing, but that's not the type of talk you hear in interviews and documentary footage from the big name game devs 15 years ago or more. They were focused on making a great game, not making sure their project hit ROI goals cooked up by people outside the industry with ideas divorced from reality.

The profit was the reward for a good product, not the purpose.

It seemed to be the job of good studio leadership to keep that sort of shit away from the creatives and let the creatives do what they do best as much as possible. Sure sometimes you'd end up in a situation like MGSV, where it got so over budget with no end in sight that you'd have to push it out the door, but I'd much rather have something where what's there is polished to near perfection than these games that are 100 miles wide and an inch deep.

Yes, technically you hit your bullet point goals of having more verticality, of having an open world, more movement options, etc. On paper you can check the boxes off for all the elements you wanted to put in the game and marketed it as having. But if each of those elements is only the bare minimum to meet the metric and move on, then they're going to suck. Sucess as defined by pure business process rather than any measure of actual quality.

I’m not going to put my foot on the scales for you.

Fucking hell, that hits hard. I feel like so much of this current shit show can be traced back to the DNC's full court push of Hillary. Winning against Trump should have been a fucking cake walk, but no, lets do this hard mode.

🥲 indeed.

People still were looking for more of the change that Obama campaigned on, and you intervene and force Bernie out for Hillary when Trump's whole campaign was on radical change? What I wouldn't give to know the truth behind that fuck up of a decision...

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While I think that is a different meaning than the current fad/bubble driven meaning that marketing groups would have people believe AI is, it's interesting how fast people have forgotten the old uses of the term.

Personally I try to avoid using it to describe those now, since AI in popular parlance has been extended to at least imply a lot more lately.

.22 is small caliber, even for a pistol.