I would never buy from them anymore. I am fairly certain that explains why I could not access my games from years ago.

The best part of this is that the AI could not come up with original content. All it can do is repeat what humans already output. I would say games journalism is safe from an AI takeover. Now we just need to get rid of the bot spam.

It’s up to you to give your life meaning. Just because things suck, doesn’t mean it’s time to throw in the towel. Imagine the Bronze Age humans, who were getting killed over idols and and some random warlord’s whims. They persisted in the face of adversity so we exist today. Imagine the lives of the enslaved, raped, and oppressed native Americans and Africans in the face of Spanish rule in South America. They persisted with no clear future freedom in sight.

I could go on about humans facing horrible situations but my point is this: throughout history we have always faced a dark situation as a result of other human actions but we always found a reason to persist… or even fight back.

I am looking forward to the massive population plunge… as is the rest of the earth. Hopefully, with less humans we can have better social programs and more earth friendly usage of resources.

Religion is so screwed up. I had to look it up: Quran 78:33 in english. People believe anything…

What do they hope to gain by blowing up civilians?

Wow, it’s amazing that it was passed and was that close. I would have thought with the worldwide record temperatures, the ongoing wildfires, the mass extinctions, the melted glaciers, and the mass immigration away from heavily affected countries that world leaders would be more interested in fixing this.

One of these days he is going to hit something during one of his little tirades. Reminds me of a kid who needs attention every few months.

This was a great read and shows that in even ancient societies, people understood that there was more than just a binary.

That man is so embarrassing.

Something basic is wrong there if they cannot protect their own politicians.

I hate the world right now. It’s just bad actors acting badder and normal people having to deal with the outcome.

Yeah, I’m in Michigan and I really don’t like this year. First, we have a dry spring. Then a hot, dry summer up until a day or so ago. Now wildfire smoke. It’s like each day is worse this year. I’ll be happy when fires are stopped.

The speed is not impressive, but the fact that did it at all is interesting.

I totally understand that feeling. The lack of representation by the Republican Party due to social conservatism hurts everyone.

Well, here is the problem: the right wing has made it their platform to go after certain classes of people. I can debate you all day long about the economy or gun control or taxes. I should not have to debate you on my right to exist and thrive as a citizen.

Some great conversation here. Thanks everyone who responded so far!

Good point. How will we be able to tell the difference?

I agree that climate change should be our main concern. The real existential risk of AI is that it will cause millions of people to not have work or be underemployed, greatly multiplying the already huge lower class. With that many people unable to take care of themselves and their family, it will make conditions ripe for all of the bad parts of humanity to take over unless we have a major shift away from the current model of capitalism. AI would be the initial spark that starts this but it will be human behavior that dooms (or elevates) humans as a result.

The AI apocalypse won’t look like Terminator, it will look like the collapse of an empire and it will happen everywhere that there isn’t sufficient social and political change all at once.

The article was skeptical about this. It said that the problem with expecting it to revolutionize policy decisions isn’t that we don’t know what to do, it’s that we don’t want to do it. For example, we already know how to solve climate change and the smartest people on the planet in those fields have already told us what needed to be done. We just don’t want to make the changes necessary.