[–] 3 points 8 hours ago

Sure, asbestos if giving you cancer, but have you thought of its insulating properties, and to replace damaged asbestos immediately?

Sure, tetraetillead in fuel exposes us to lead, but have you thought how good of an anti-knocking agent it is, and that you shouldn't live near busy roads?

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  • [–] 8 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

    If you doubt it: He once done a Reddit AMA, and in that he explicitly said "the age of consent on Mars could be 14". Sure, he might be the "um, it's called ephebophilia actually" types, but still one of those,

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Steam still have a lot of issues, so there's some opportunities still. If Epic truly managed to provide what Steam does while taking less from the devs, I would guarantee you that more people would go to the EGS, and even make memes about EGS taking less from devs. But with nonexistent social features and AI slop unlabeled, people will not want to touch it with a ten foot pole.

    Hell, even if they just let people avoid AI slop easier than on Steam would at least win over a few people. But from what Epic is doing with its other tools, it seems like they're trying to force as many devs to be "AI first" as possible.

    As a dev, I wouldn't lie that Epic taking lower cuts sounds nice. But if it comes with the costs of their game launcher coming with Chinese spyware and being horribly vibe-coded, a chronic inability to dodge AI slop, then I don't even want to touch it with a 10 foot pole. Maybe I won't even release my games there.

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    Anti-AI extremism would require one hating AI without any good reason. Any good reason could mean

    • personal bad experiences with AI (especially if it can be painted as traumatic),
    • getting "AI fatigue",
    • getting scammed by, or at least knowing one person who was scammed by AI even once;
    • having read statistics about AI's bad effects,
    • having read anecdotes (which can be later be referred to as "statistics") about how bad AI is,
    • or even just not hating AI to be seen as evil.

    In addition, anti-AI extremism would require bad optics, such as looking like an anti-AI skinhead (bonus points if you have anti-AI hate symbols as tattoos, especially on face). Or having a toothbrush mustache, a sidecombed hair, suit designed by Hugo Boss, being escorted by blonde men in Hugo Boss suits who do a constant Roman Salute, end when you finally arrive to Berlin, you scream "I am ze evil Adolf Hitler! I will kill ze AI chatbots, for ze sake of evil!". Or maybe those rare emo anti-AI extremists of the 2000s made fun of on ED and similar sites, who self harmed due to the existence of AI, and wrote emo poems about hating AI titled "I fucking hate AI".

    Anything else is just rational reaction to AI fatigue people have, for understandable reasons. And people are rightfully fearful of AI users, because of the Australian case of an AI bro biting a person, and all the shootings AI users did under psychosis.

    OOC: But we don't live in a perfect world, so we're being called anti-AI extremists for simply not wanting to use AI, or engage with AI generated content, let alone about any attempt at trying to regulate it.

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