Gagarin1917

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by Gagarin1917 9mo ago
It looks like Civ 6 actually has twice the player count compared to 5 on Steam.
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by Gagarin1917 9mo ago
They’re upvoting because they agree with the sentiment in the title. That’s largely how these voting sites work.
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by Gagarin1917 9mo ago
>She and I spoke last night and she is increasingly pissed off that people who are in her classes, who don’t do the work, and don’t understand the material get all A’s because they’re using some form of GPT to do their assignments, and t
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by Gagarin1917 9mo ago
You sound like you think everyone in the world is a political science major… they’re not. They don’t think like this.
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by Gagarin1917 9mo ago
I’m not sure that logically tracks. You (likely) act in a non-violent way every day. If you want some kind of change in your life, you achieve it non-violently. Does that imply you are are actually a violent person that is choosing not to b
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by Gagarin1917 10mo ago
If you think the tech only exists via mega corporations apps, then you’re very misinformed. You can generate videos locally. The models anlready exist.
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by Gagarin1917 10mo ago
It’s ridiculous to say everyone who has an idea for a film could have gotten it made already if they had the skill. There are endless amounts of people with real skill in the film industry that cannot get their movie made even though they h
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by Gagarin1917 10mo ago
>if you were unable to write, storyboard, and communicate your idea before AI--than AI is not going to be "the thing" that suddenly turns you into a filmmaker. The person you are replying to doesn’t say that they couldn’t do th
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by Gagarin1917 10mo ago
There’s no “justifying” anything - the tech is here. Even if you ban it globally, it would actually stop be here and would still be able to cause harm - it would just not be able to be used for good either.
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by Gagarin1917 10mo ago
Those aspects aren’t the only “creative” aspects of filmmaking. What if someone used AI to say something important or get across a different perspective? 99% of people in the world do not have the time/money/connections to achieve
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by Gagarin1917 10mo ago
What if your company has you doing the job of a senior without the pay (because all the actual seniors left)?
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by Gagarin1917 10mo ago
>One of the reasons was that Instagram until about 2 years ago was pretty cool about just showing you people you follow instead of dumping unwanted algorithmic shit on you. But after the rise of tiktok they have unfortunately mirrored th
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by Gagarin1917 10mo ago
>"What's your Insta" is a standard line when you meet someone at a party. Wow interesting, I thought social media was more an embarrassing thing to admit you participated in these days.
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by Gagarin1917 11mo ago
Nah it’s going to be Google by most measures
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by Gagarin1917 11mo ago
That’s a discussion about where wealth gains are going, however my comment was about the concept of excess capital, investment, and jobs. Yes, the wealth of the 1% has increased over the decades, but so has investment. The economy still dwa
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by Gagarin1917 11mo ago
The companies who now have piles of cash because they eliminated a huge chunk of labor will spend far more on new projects, many of which will require tradesmen. Economic waves never hit one sector and stop. The waves continues across the e
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by Gagarin1917 11mo ago
“Late” should not be included in the definition. Whoever did messed up.
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by Gagarin1917 11mo ago
It did, the point is to build up the manufacturing base: “Driscoll said his priority is getting the United States into a position where it can produce enough drones for any future war, stimulating domestic production of everything from brus
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by Gagarin1917 11mo ago
>They're not conflating them, they are pointing out that the closedness of the system and the control it gives Apple will be a useful tool to authoritarians who can force Apple to exert their power in certain ways. Oh well that’s no