This is basically how evolution works. It’s goal is not necessarily ‘better’ or some goal- it’s just iterating forward. Always just forward. Sometimes better, sometimes worse, always forward.

Upper management decides the direction. Selective pressure determines if ‘forward’ is good or bad. In the absence of competition, selective pressure is eliminated and the only pressure is maximuze profit- leading to enshittification.

So- this would potentially render in-game cosmetics useless. You could just DLSS some cosmetic over your character for ‘free’ and skip paying for in-game cosmetic items. You could retexture or skin a model into something else with this tech, theoretically.

Heck, this could be a banned feature for online competitive games if you DLSS enemies to be easier to see.

Non-gaming applications of such tech are kinda frightening, but good to be aware of the possibility. AI swapping of characters has been something they’ve been working on. I’m guessing it will be sold as some kinda feature where you can give the AI some model of yourself, and it swaps the main character of a show or movie for your likeness. People will find it neat and try it and it will sorta work, but mostly just be a novelty. Then you’ll see that data get used for advertising, where they swap out the character in the Ad for you to catch your attention. If they try to catalog every person, this could be valuable and used to maliciously scam people by cloning your voice to mimic you and do all sorts of terrible things.

I imagine in a few years after some major scams and such that we’ll need some new verification systems to try to ensure that transactions are between real people and not just AI with your information. Yes, it will be intrusive and tracking, but will be required to maintain online commerce. Online marketplaces will struggle and possibly collapse without some way to authenticate a transaction. Hey, we may see a return to physical stores and doing everything in person again!

That makes sense. Microsoft didn’t enter the console market for gamers or gaming- they entered it to beat sony. The PS2 had a linux distro you could load on it to try to sell it as a computer to circumvent luxury import taxes. If it WAS a computer, it would compete with Microsoft Windows. They were worried that a console could just sell software instead of games and be a competitor, so they threw a ton of money trying to run Sony out of business.

Microsoft never really wanted to win gaming. The war was against an enemy that wasn’t really a threat. So not killing off a console wasn’t really a “loss”.

Older games are also meant to be beaten. I remember games that had reviews saying, “This game will take 40-60 hours to complete”, and that was it. You could replay it if you wanted, but it was just an experience.

The new idea is live service games. Games you can never really beat, you just grind at it forever. That or they have a bunch of add on things to make the game take a lot longer so you keep playing the same thing over and over again. I’m not saying they’re not fun, just that they lack a satisfying conclusion and variety.

Trump said Obama did something bad? So that means Trump has done this recently, and Obama didn’t do it at all.

…did they sell the pirates DVDs ON Amazon? That would be funny, and mildly ironic on how Amazon has zero accountability for all the counterfeit jank junk they sell.

Has anyone considered how this might interfere with the rapture?

I’ve not had kids, but I’ve had many dogs. It’s a similar thing where people who have had a few good dogs look at a ‘bad dog’ and blame the owner. The dog needs training, or discipline, or whatever… And they’ve never had a dog that had issues. Until you do get that one stubborn little asshole where nothing works. Yes, we’ve tried that- the dog is willfully just a little asshole. Still love 'em, still give them the best life you can- but you know them too well and just know that they are going to be a pain and do bad things no matter what. All you can do is try to mitigate the damage and make sure they don’t hurt themselves.

For our dog that was like that- it just took a long time for him to grow old enough to slow down. Then he became the sweetest and best dog ever.

Good luck on the kid. Hope they figure it out sooner rather than later.

Political bots- well maybe, but it’s not that far fetched. Astroturfing is very real and has been a thing for a good while now. It’s honestly not difficult to think that the same techniques and practices, enhance by AI now, could be used to shape political will of the people.

If you say, “NO! MY party wouldn’t do that!”. Maybe not, but the other side might. Or even other countries. Honestly, as a boring ass citizen -I- have the ability to VPN into another country and AI shitpost bad ideas onto their political boards. If I was in a foreign country employed in some goverment capacity for counterintelligence operations and I WASN’T employong such tools and actions- I’d just be terrible at my job.

Pleasure yourself with the all new McDonald’s McRib this Easter.

It’s not a ‘product’ in the conventional sense. It’s a gateway to an intellegent astroturf machine. Buy a ton of fake accounts for every social media platform, make them appear ‘legit’, then have bots comb for anything they can shoehorn a message into and have your ai bot army manipulate public perception. That’s the only use case I could see companies actually willing to pay that kinda money for.

There are tons of social situations where I’m quiet because the conversation spawned a really crazy thought that I need to explore in my own head, and I don’t know everone else well enough to share it openly. I’m glad I do when people are this judgy.

Just be wary and remember that those behind these moves are not necessarily democrat or republican. They have contingency plans for whatever party is in power, and they will attempt different strategies that may be designed to work on you.

That makes sense. I’m not in that ecosystem, so I’m not up on how things work in it and only experience it as an outsider.

This is how I am with mac os. I’m pretty knowledgeable about computers, so there are a lot of tasks I view as simple that I will attempt to do, only to have it fight me the whole way. I’m sure it’s just that I don’t know proper protocol, but it’s annoying.

Example would be I had some photos on my phone I wanted to put on my mom’s macbook. Okay, I have a cable, just plug it in. Well, it shows up but refuses to show files in usb mode. Okay, the photo editor saw the phone, but it was import all or nothing. It wouldn’t let me send just one folder. Okay… So I can’t copy/paste files from the phone, import is all or nothing. So… I ended up having to put the folder on a usb stick- but the the photo program wouldn’t recognise that as a source to import from, so I had to copy the folder to the desktop and THEN import from that. Something that should have been relatively simple turned into a whole ordeal because it was designed for one type of workflow and I didn’t know all the little tricks to get it to do what I wanted. I know that’s on me for not knowing the easy way ro do it, but when the obvious option ‘import’ doesn’t give me any real options, I have to figure it out.

I have a nephew that when asked what he wanted for Christmas one year replied, “I don’t know, I’ll have ro watch some commercials first”

Weird aside, but I have a 14900k which just eats power. About 400ish watts draw during CPU benchmarks for total ststem draw. I had a 1000w psu and finally got a 5090. Now a 400w cpu + 600w gpu should not work- but it did. I did stress test both at the same time and hit 1100w, but it lived. Thing is, most games do not stress borh CPU and GPU at max at the same time, so real world usage I was always under.

Still, I want headroom, so I got a deal on a 1500w psu. New PSU is more efficient, and running the same simultaneous cpu/gpu benchmark I hit about 960w, so the efficiency bump kept me under my old psu limit. It did lead me to get a new PSU, but technically it would have been mostly okay.

I’m sorry for being late in Spanish.

Disregard arithmetic, acquire uwu.

Spec bumps are pretty irrelevant now anyways. Phones are currently in the land of diminishing returns for performance. They’ve been ‘fast enough’ for some time now, and the only thing that breaks them is software, not hardware. Newer hardware is marginally more efficient, so that’s the only real world benefit.

I miss the old days of android where they were trying all manner of wild ideas. I want variety where one company has an eink screen protector. Put a laser pointer on a phone because… Because. Where are the projector phones? Maybe some crazy transformer phone with modules that all clip together to turn into a robot. Sure, they never sold well, but they were cool to see.