People keep asking me, and I haven’t really had an answer, but now yeah, I’m thinking I’m back.
The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.
Did Guillemot not hear about Andor? The costs of a Disney Plus subscription vs a $70 game aside, that show respected the viewer’s time and intelligence in all the ways Outlaws didn’t. But I’m not surprised the heads of Ubisoft lack basic retrospection. Regurgitating past successes is all they know how to do, and how could they be wrong? Must be the rest of the world. :/
everything up until The Prison is REALLY rough.
I’m very curious why you think the Aldhani raid was rough. Also, season 2 is already done, and I think it in some ways surpasses season 1. Have you seen it?
I for one would be happy if the collapse of the power grid killed AI. I would be, if it didn’t also mean the collapse of the entire global economy and the death of thousands of people.
This greedy motherfucker can’t think but 5 minutes ahead.
Stripping the copper wiring from the walls.
That sounds like treating the symptom rather than the disease. Why automate the toil, when we could remove it instead? The other commenters brought up examples:
generating (the boring) parts of work documents
when I notice auto-generated parts, which triggers that I use AI in turn, and I ask it to summarise all that verbose AI generated content.
The AI wrote a document a human didn’t want to read, so AI then read the document AI wrote. The incentive thereafter is to save, and use, the shorter AI doc over the longer one.
Was any value created by this cycle? We just watered down the information with more automation. In the process, we probably lost nuance, detail. Alternatively, if we all agreed the document wasn’t worth a human’s eyes or keystrokes in the first place… why have the AI do anything? Sounds like we would all be happier to not have the document in the first place.
They’re so desperate to make the real-life Snowcrash, Ready Player One, Matrix, they haven’t even acknowledged how hard metaverse flopped, nor how there’s no “smuggling” anything into a virtual “space”. They can’t stand the idea that what they really made was Worse Second Life 30 Years Later.