“We can’t make as much money off of them!”

No impact on employment? How so?

Weren’t there layoffs due to AI implementation, expected or actual? Or is the time and work-hours needed to correct and understand what AI is doing not realizing the expected savings?

Also, AI/LLM in the popular over-invested sense is the Tesla FSD of corporate tools. A badly designed, over-promised system that doesn’t live up to the hype and far too often commits errors, some of which are lethal or have other serious consequences.

IMO AI should be a tool used in parallel with humans, like research or medical diagnostics, able to see things we might miss or rapidly try new multi-step combinations we might not think of. Not as a human replacement.

Boutique PC building has been getting expensive since crypto hoarders bought up GPUs and scalpers drove the prices through the roof pushing it further out of reach. We had a couple early hits with the HDD and memory shortages due to factory damage, those were relatively short lived, crypto otoh was long-term. Now we’ve got LLM datacenters hoarding all the hardware along with manufacturers perfectly happy to allow scarcity to drive up prices.

On top of all that we’re seeing less-subtle suggestions to kill the personal PC and force everyone into a subscription model for everything.

Personally I’d wait for any dip in the market and build another good quality PC. I figure there’s not too many years left before they get their wish.

The irony of losing your job as a paid troll to AI.

Because it’s more profitable to charge people without upgrading the infrastructure. That’s how privatized systems work. It used to be about building a better product to attract consumers, now it’s about squeezing consumers for the most profit and minimizing costs.

The right love their bogeymen.

Lol, special would be nice. A high likelihood of being shunned since childhood is the norm. But I’d settle for acceptance.

The state will protect capital. Just like Luigi, they wanted the death penalty for an alleged single murder of a rich guy. Meanwhile poorer people are free to kill each other and they go to prison, and get paroled. Mess with people who hoard the money and they’ll throw the book at you.

Probably tells the brutally unvarnished truth about trump, AI, and climate change.

Can’t have that. Let’s call it “too powerful” until we can muzzle it.

It’s more frustration than distraction at that point.

There was nothing hostile in what I said. Maybe you don’t like being proven wrog? I didn’t expect anything of you much less a hyperbolic research paper, but nonetheless you chose hyperbole and shuffled the goalposts instead of actually continuing the discussion. I never said when I bought the games, but convenient of you to arbitrarily decide how old a game is before it’s not worth it for you. Nonetheless they’re on sale by your own admission, so that blows your “rarely” out of the water while you ignore BF6 being repeatedly on sale. But I suppose you’ll make excuses about that too?

Literally BF6 is on sale right now for 40% off. It was 50% off on some locations on Black Friday. It was 30% off 4 months ago. It was released early October. That’s 4 sales in 7 months for a AAA game.

I’ve bought Stray, Cyberpunk 2077, GTA, Elite: Dangeorus, Borderlands series, and many others all on sale and even a couple games for free.

I can’t help it if your particular games don’t get discounted, but telling me AAA games rarely do is completely wrong.

You can buy new AAA games. Be /patientgamers. Just wait a few weeks or months after release and they almost always go on sale when companies want to boost server numbers to make quarterly reports look good. I haven’t paid release price for any AAA game in years. And it should go without saying: Do not preorder!

Well, at least they’re outside.

Oh good, now you can watch ads on your giant tv when your console or PC game ends because the TV will know.

Next: subscription access to play games on said Big TV.

Destroys them all because unprofitable to sell, whines about major loss, demands government bailout.

Can’t sue AI for malpractice.

Hah. I get that.

I’m reading a book series that’s more like a serialized tv show than a novel set. They’re not good, but they’re certainly good enough to grow on me. I think I’m on book 32 or something and actually waiting for the next one.

All that venture capital. Gone into rich people’s pockets.

I’ll cautiously second the first part with a variation. Using the calendar as “oh shit” dates only seems to work for us for things that have burned us before and we apply the “oh shit” factor to that date. Like a payment due and we have it marked to post it 5 days earlier, the panic has to be about getting it out on the dssignated day.

Second part…whatever works.