Colonel Panic

Sticking it in to stick it to the gays! For Jesus!

Maybe all the macho conservatives need to get gay married to each other to prove that they hate it and aren’t gay. It’s the only way to be sure.

Yeah for real.

Smart TVs, Subscription services, etc.

It’s all just capitalism doing its thing, everyone racing to sell sell sell.

Maybe it is human-like intelligence. It’s dumb as shit, but have you met people?

LMAO

But yeah, I guess at its core, human intelligence and machine intelligence are both just pattern recognition, but I guess my point is that calling it “AI” gives people this false sense that it is something it is not. AI has been a thing in Sci-fi for so long that we all think of Data from Star Trek or C-3PO from Star Wars and similar. When in reality it is more akin to a robot arm in a factory doing the same task really fast and really precisely, but it isn’t some adaptable all-purpose thing yet.

I really hate that we are calling this wave of technology “AI”, because it isn’t. It is “Machine Learning” sure, but it is just brute force pattern recognition v2.0.

The desired outcomes you define and then the data you train it on both have a LOT of built-in biases.

It’s a cool technology I guess, but it’s being misused across the board. It is being overused and misused by every company with FOMO. Hoping to get some profit edge on the competition. How about we have AI replace the bullshit CEO and VP positions instead of trying to replace fast food drive through workers and Internet content.

I guess that’s nothing new for humans… One human invents the spear for fishing and the rest use them to hit each other over the head.

What we have here is a dactyl that pters and a helico that also pters.

I name them, Pterhelico and Dactylopter.

“Yes, I had to correspond with other engineers and English was used in all communications.”

Those are good points. I’ve played MC since early alpha, but haven’t played much of the 1.20+ content yet. I still haven’t fought the Warden! Ahhhh!!!

I do really appreciate hearing that Jeb has that mindset and goal. And you are right that they have eventually added more uses for things that started useless.

From a design standpoint it is often surprisingly difficult to remember to use older content and mechanics on new content. You see it in RPGs and story type games often. In level 1 you unlock a skill or item, have to use it over and over for a dungeon or level, and then by level 3 you never ever use it again. Sometimes games will manage to remember the “old” things and keep them relevant and when I notice that I always really appreciate it. Several of the Zelda series games manage this. E.G. the Deku Nuts/Sticks still being used in the last dungeons.

The same thing happened to Lego.

Originally it was small pieces you combine in creative ways to build something.

Now all the sets have these huge specialty pieces that are barely usable outside of that 1 set design. Like the giant cockpit things that are 1 big hinged piece.

One option: They could have used leather for basic armor and then turtle shells for a better set and then gold for the best. Just use existing things and combine them in new ways. It is so much better that way.

There are SO many things in MC that have exactly 0 or 1 purpose and nothing more and that is such a shame.

That doesn’t sound like giving it 110% and being a team player. We are a family here. We need go getters. We gotta make it happen.

I just buy new ones every few years. The pipes just have 1 screw or clip holding them on and slide right out. And the replacement packs are fairly cheap. Around $15 for the 3 burner pipes and those little diverter channel things that connect them so they all light from 1 starter. And takes like 15 minutes to change it all out.

I saw this a few years ago and it has stuck with me.

“The economy isn’t talking about me and you, it’s referring to corporations and executives and shareholders and such.”

The economy could be doing amazing and we have 50% unemployment.

The economy could also be doing terrible and we have 0% unemployment.

The economy could also be doing amazing and the workers don’t make enough to survive.

It isn’t measuring what many people seem to think it is. It isn’t a measure of “how well the average person is doing” at all.

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Won’t SOMEBODY think of the CEOs and shareholders!!!

The meetings will continue until productivity goes up!

Crayons become the default.

Soon: All ballpoint pens have a microscopic tracking code embossed into the ball like a stamp.

I think most people would consider things like, working over 40 hours when you are salaried, routinely doing someone else’s job in addition to yours (like fixing their mistakes TOO much), skipping your lunch breaks to work.

Don’t get me wrong, doing those things SOMETIMES is ok. It’s when it becomes expected or ongoing that it’s a problem. Because no company is ever going to say “You are generating more profit for us at your own expense, slow down.”