I become more and more weary about the absolutist moralizing. Yeah this CEO is nutty, but what I want from him is to protect the privacy of his customers. That is a precious good to us.

I especially mistrust the fuckai fanatics who want to burn down everything and everyone that has remotely to with AI no matter if it's reasonable or unreasonable. Their tactics are despicable and their strategy leads to unproductive outcomes for all.

Soon there will be no big VPN and privacy companies left and it will be easy to mop up what is left without resistance.

Yeah I agree with both points. Also I read that he was a long term Trump supporter long before he ran for president.

And treating these malignant narcissists with kid gloves is useless I agree. But they are obsessed with their image, with their false ego or mirror image. So he will read how he has seen. This is of course speculation and I'm not a psychologist, but that is what I think happened to Musk. He played this image of a good tech "captain of industry", then when he got rejected because of his greed and lies he switched to a different persona. And there is no real persona. You can even see similar things with Trump, very far back he was a democrat / liberal, but these malignant narcissists don't have a real personal.

Not sure how useful any of this is really. In the end we live in the age of monsters. And they are all across the political mainstream spectrum now.

After selling to facebook he got flack. And then became an open supporter of Trump. He became hated.

My guess is that he's a narcissist similar to Elon Musk, so him hearing himself called a looser and asshole (like he is) triggers him to be worse. To go "I'll show him". To do a nazi salute or you know, engineer dogs for war to oppress people more efficiently. Any supporter of Trump is obviously a psycho with no moral center, but if they also have narcissism and money and power, well it can get much worse.

The confusion is deliberate. From the media and zelenksy too

Think of all the web services who still pays money to USA or Israel. If you want to moralize, at least don't use a double standard of morality for the people you hate vs the people you venerate.

Yeah but can you separate Hamas from the struggle of people for liberation from imperialist oppression?

Can you?

People still can't imagine it yet, because "muh 911 never forget" but Islam isn't even the driving force behind this struggle, because that too is a political struggle for liberation from imperialist oppression. It's the religion or ideology that glues these people together as brothers and gives them the mental fortitude (or delusion) to pull this off. I say this as an atheist who isn't especially fond of Muslims. But they rightfully want the US empire out of their region, and the natural resources like oil working for the people, not the US (like it does in Iran, or it did in Venezuela before the recent economic warfare and plundering). Of course drone strike them enough and they become more and more extreme. A thousand 911s and "interventions" and psyops visited on the middle east will lead to some bad shit. Now they found an extremist for Syria that can be bought. Worst of both worlds. US Empire and Al-Qaeda, now inseparable lol.

So while you think this is progressive politics, this actually cuts pretty close to the kerfuffle about voting democrat or third party or not at all. Which is a psyop that those people are your enemies, not the plutocrats who buy votes in bulk. But even you ultra progressive slogans are pro US empire. Not even in your wildest dreams can you imagine a just world.

How totalitarian of you. Assuming stewardship of how people are allowed to express themselves politically and creatively. You must be like the enlightened block warden of the super duper ethical state of extra liberty. And who cares about truth anymore anyway when you can cut society into tiny pieces and shit hate all day.

Yeah. It's really very local democracy where people can get involved in if such modernist crap bothers them.

Well true it's not gonna happen "very" soon. You'll basically need source code for games that generalize this stuff, game engine code bases that can encompass various game styles. And presumably a lot of "data worker" work which translate existing games into design doc so it can be used for training.

But most AAA games share very similar gameplay elements just with different art and music and characters and story, one or two new features. Much of the code base is like "player / camera controller" and then a lot of items and weapons and levels and encounters.

So you don't need to manage an entire colossal code base. But if you imagine just a selection of very strict genres, like first person shooter or realtime strategy game, this provides a rather restricted code base where most is art generation and that is definitely possible. Even MMORPGs like WoW.

You might still need or want e.g. a concept artist that designs characters or supervises art styles. But it's going to be possible for hobbyists to do the work of multi million dollar studios. With a little side of slop of course lol. No doubt "handmade" games still are potentially better but due to budget constraints have not often been and in this future scenario just won't be commercially viable. It's going to be patreon funded game designer crews. And bye bye fucking corporate games industry.

In many European countries there are regulations that your house architecture has to match the overall appearance of the locality. Maybe France doesn't have that or lags behind or it is badly enforced?

So you can be creative but have to match the colors and materials and roof style of the neighborhood. That can be annoying too but I can see how such bland architecture everywhere would be much worse. I always wanted to build a container home castle but it would never be approved.

It's funny. Because pretty soon individual "Game Designers" will for the first time be able to create highly complex games using generative AI in very little time. Any game. Even games with a scole like GTA 6 could be generated. And as long as the game describes and edits enough, they will also be an individual creation. Triple AAA video games with a side of slop will become incredibly cheap to make. Much will be total garbage, but we'll see some really cool new ideas that would never have been made before.

This enshittification we're seeing now will only drive this process faster. Even games piracy is going to die lol.

You see a game but don't like some aspect of it? Download someone else's game design document for it and tweak it a bit and generate your own version of that game.