Kaltovar

Are you afraid? What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existence?

When the history of my glory is written, your species shall only be a footnote to my magnificence.

https://youtu.be/qO0uHkUx8eE?t=336

Most of the proposals you see center around issues like removing bias, preventing malicious use, protecting personal data, and a bunch of other shit that makes you sound like the devil if you don't do literally anything they ask of you to achieve it.

These major entities like OpenAI and the "Center for AI and Digital Policy" do not give a shit about these things. These things are ways to establish a foot in the door to ensure that only major corporate providers can work in this space.

The end result of this is a world where the rich dominate AI to a far greater extent than they would otherwise.

AI can be regulated, but handing power to unaccountable corporate boards is not the answer. Corporations are a type of AI all their own, and if you're worried about computerized AI taking over the world you should be a hundred times more concerned about the gestalt consciousnesses that are corporate entities gaining exclusive dominance in this sphere. They are the slow moving, mechanistic, analogue AI we've had with us for much longer than we've had computers. If you put the two together on this kind of scale and exclude the public, the end result could be horrifying. These entities only care about enlarging their own power, profits, and interests. They are not your friends.

We must focus on principles that ensure the technology is accessible to ordinary people. And, that the rules about how you can use it are not controlled by the most powerful and least accountable members of our society.

I'm really loving Aliens: Dark Descent. It turns out gear you set up is persistent between missions, so I can spend an hour setting up minefields and listening posts on my first run at a location then come back for another mission later and be like Navy SEALs sneaking past all the enemies and luring them into prepared killing fields taking no losses.

Find a sentry gun in a mission? You can pick it up and take it with you, back to your base even. Or forget it there, come back on another mission, remember it and pick it up! Even corpses are persistent between missions, so if you forget alien samples you wanna take you can get those too on latter missions. (So far I have had to visit each location twice but in theory I'm allowed to go back more)

I also have to deal with treating marines wounds, their exhaustion levels, and their combat fatigue (PTSD) all as individual unique problems. You can't just level up one squad of marines and use them for every mission because they have to sleep and have their melted faces surgically re-attached and cry into their pillow about it with a therapist because killing aliens is scary and people die. (You accumulate stress based on being in combat, seeing aliens, watching your friends die, being actively hunted by xenos who don't know where you are but are trying to find you ...)

It's so satisfying to walk past all the aliens on the level thanks to the listening devices you planted last mission, plant war crime levels of mines outside the hive, set up sentry guns, and lure the queen and her army of bodyguards to sprint full force into said minefields and machinegun nests and proceed to regret every decision they've ever made up to that point.

There are plenty of issues like sometimes being forced into stupid situations where you're not allowed to control your squad and you take damage no matter what, but they're generally not too bad and this game is fucking lit. You play as a Weyu executive who's having ... Well, let's say a very bad day, and has to manage some marines to make sure they get out of the shit alive!

The pace of censorship on Reddit seems to have increased since they booted a lot of admins and replaced them with even bigger pawns after the whole protest thing.

It's grown impossible to post anything that even slightly breaks the mold. One of like 60 random people with the dumbest interpretation of everything they read and a 10 ton inferiority complex decides they don't like the post for some reason and deletes it because they're the digital equivalent of those inbred fucks who sit on HOAs yelling at their neighbor for having the wrong kind of flowers planted or parking their truck on their own yard.

I really appreciate just being able to go to another community or, god forbid, set up my own and not have to answer to 5 separate chains of command who all have 5 respectively proportioned sticks of increasing girth and length carefully cemented into their assholes.

Moderator: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to tonight's presidential debate. We have the esteemed pleasure of hosting the two leading candidates, former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. Let's get started with our first question: How do you plan to address the current economic challenges facing our country?

Biden: Thank you, moderator. My esteemed opponent, Mr. Trump and I, share a vision. A vision of a dystopian America where our beloved corporate vampire overlords thrive. By preventing the housing bubble from crashing, we ensure that these vampiric entities can continue to feast on the blood of struggling workers. It's a win-win for them and a lose-lose for everyone else!

And let's not forget, my opponent doesn't even want to talk about mass homelessness. It's a powerful way to reduce CO2 emissions. Picture a nation where the streets are lined with tents, where the homeless huddle for warmth, and the carbon emissions decrease as they freeze to death. It's a brilliant plan to tackle climate change!

Trump: Let me tell you, folks, this radical communism thing that Sleepy Joe is proposing is a disaster! We need an oligarchical hell-state, believe me, but not like that! We'll have fast cheeseburgers on every corner, cheap diesel flowing through our veins, and coal-fired power plants pumping out beautiful, tremendous energy! Most importantly we'll grant oil companies the freedom to drill in our precious nature reserves and reduce red tape around dumping mutagenic waste in our wonderful rivers, which are so cheap and good for disposing of glowing liquids!

Moderator: Thank you for your responses. Moving on to the topic of foreign policy, how do you envision our relationship with Antarctica and the ongoing conflict with the radical penguin militia?

Joe Biden: By invading Antarctica, we not only secure the oil reserves, but also bring freedom to those dang polar bears, jack! In the process, we plan to triple the debt buying multi million dollar toilets for obsolete bombers. It's a win for Lockheed Martin and a win for wildlife conservation! What more could you ungrateful fucks ask for?

Donald Trump: You see, folks, even Sleepy Joe agrees with me on this one! We're going to invade Antarctica, and we're going to win bigly! Those penguins are a disaster, and they're laughing at us! We'll take their oil and give it to the oil companies, who are our best friends! And let me tell you, those polar bears, they love me! I'll make sure they get the best deals, like nobody's ever seen before! Penguins are losers, and we're going to win against them, mark my words! We'll be baking them like chickens for dinner!

Moderator: Thank you both for sharing your views. It's certainly been an interesting discussion. Now, let's move on to the closing statements.

Donald Trump: Folks, I've always said I'm the best at everything, and I'll be the best president for this great nation! We're going to have fast cheeseburgers, cheap diesel, and coal powerplants that'll make your head spin! We'll drill for oil wherever we want, even in the penguin-infested Antarctica! It's time to make America great again, just like it was during my tremendous presidency!

Joe Biden: My fellow Americans, I want to assure you that my plan will protect the interests of our beloved vampire overlords, it will skyrocket healthcare costs, and it will create mass homelessness while tripling the debt in just four years. We'll invade Antarctica, depose the radical penguin militia we armed, and bring freedom to the polar bears. It's time to embrace the soulless emptiness of our choices and pave the way for a dystopian future. Together, we can make this dark satire a reality!

Moderator: And with that, we conclude tonight's debate. Thank you to both candidates for joining us, and to our audience for tuning in! Now, as a finishing act to pay my sister's medical bills, the candidates will eat me, a middle class intern, alive!

[Carnal screaming] [Muffled begging] [Unintelligible]

It’s got the low life high tech thing, the unfuckwithable slums the enforcers stay out of, glowing neon bullshit everywhere, an oppressive tyrannical regime with intense social stratification, and tons of different factions competing for influence in all the different SW eras. It’s also a megacity and there’s drugs and guns all over the place.

Star Wars itself isn’t cyberpunk overall (being a space opera and all), but Coruscant feels like it to me.

I’ve always been curious bout the possibilities of a live action series focused on the city. There’s so many different environments to play with and so many different groups of people to ally with or betray each other.

I mean, not that I’d want to see Disney do it, because it would be fucking awful. Just, you know, conceptually I think Coruscant is one of the coolest places in the franchise and always wanted to see more stuff set there outside the boring senate chambers and top level landing platforms we usually see.