Musk is a shareholder. He own large parts of the companies he’s the CEO of

I partly agree with you in that everyone using the same UE5 engine is bad

But I really don’t agree that deferred rendering techniques are inherently bad. Maybe they cause negative incentives for developers that lead to worse games in the long run, but you might as well blame capitalism at that point

I like techniques such as TAA because they do work better as anti-aliasing in my experience. I’ve multiple times had the choice between TAA and traditional AA and I think TAA simply does what it sets out to do better. Upscaling and frame generation are also nice to haves as optional features people can enable. Sometimes I use them, sometimes not. But it is bad that companies use these techniques as a crutch, indeed, but I don’t want to see them gone

Frankly focusing on the carbon output of AI models is a red herring. It’s not a significant part of the problem and just makes people complacent in the form of feeling like we’ve achieved something if it succeeds. It’s not worse than stuff like video games

Focus on the actual negative effects of AI, but carbon intensity isn’t a major one

Yeah for sure, as I said, it hinges upon how interested we actually are in space

But modern computers and manufacturing techniques have made reusable rockets possible, and they exist now, so things are not quite the same as they used to be

Another thing though, our space infrastructure has been improving over the decades, it’s just that it mostly consisted of satellites orbiting earth. I mean, look at GPS, that only really came into practical existence in the 90s! And that was a massive thing! (Yes I know technically earlier but still)

We’re definitively not getting any space hotels within a decade

Two decades however? Possible. I do think we will see the buildup of a lot more space infrastructure this century, but it all depends upon how much the world cares about space and its development

This has happened to me multiple times. And yes, I did consider it to be a serious issue. It’s too abusive of a feature

Depending on how you define desire, yes absolutely. I’d argue that bacteria don’t have desires per say, but more instincts and basically being alive automatons.

No

I’ve literally seen people argue that since breast milk is unpasteurized then raw cow milk is fine

A joke doesn’t work when it’s indistinguishable from the stuff that people actually say

You are on a written medium, where there is no tone, body language, or otherwise wider context. What do you expect to happen? People can’t read your mind

Eh, my opinion is that games should be far more stricter. It’s really not fun when every match devolves into toxicity

I somt think it would take a thousand years for modern society. As complexity increases so does the risk for cascading failure

Unless they’re like right wing or nationalist, people are in general not in denial about our past. More or less the same as in other countries

Most countries have done horrible shit, and it sucks a whenever it gets denied

Discord is already dying. It’s been enshittifying for a while, and it’s about to go public

…yeaah

Depends on the people, but sure, sometimes!

Capitalism directly rewards this kind of behaviour. Maybe it would still be a problem in other systems, but capitalism very much exarcabates it by design.

Yes, you should very much talk about whether stuff like this is okay to do to someone else before you do it. You can’t consent when you sleep, so you must get full consent beforehand.

And yes, you should typically ask whether doing something is okay before you do it, in general. Communication is good, it won’t hurt anyone.

And no, it isn’t safe to just assume anything. Ask! That’s really all there is to it. Ask and accept a “no”. Ideally you also check in a few times underway. It leads to better sex.

My mindset comes from the kink community, where generally most things are permissable, but so long as consent stays in front and centre. Unless you have agreed beforehand to treat it otherwise, stuff like a “giggly no” is a no. Well, specifically you’d have safe words such as “red”, but I assume that’s not the case here.

In short though, don’t just assume anything of the other person, ask them, and allow them to talk.

Frankly, I wish we just abolished the damn monarchy already. I hate that we still have kings and queens in a democratic country even if they are just ceremonial. They don’t deserve all this media attention just because they got a lucky birth

Treat all of them as one would any other citizen and be done with it. Unfortunately, the monarchy still faces popular support towards existing, though I hope it changes sooner or later

I think you have no idea what you are talking about