Most anti EV people I've spoken to just repeat the same old untrue things. It's more expensive in electricity to charge it, you can't drive it interstate, the grid can't handle it, the electricity generated is worse than petrol emissions, the batteries are pure Evilium or something that will eradicate all life on Earth, you can't even drive it to work because the range is bad, it will lose range and be undrivable in 5 years, etc…
None of it true of course. But the truth has never stopped a good story
Given that people seem happy to consume endless A.I. Instagram feeds and such, I get the feeling most people actually don't care about the quality of what they're consuming. People who hate A.I. content like myself seem to be in the minority. I've actually run some casual anecdotal triangle tests with friends and family, and almost everyone actually preferred the A.I. generated content.
To me it seems almost like the equivalent of fast food or hyper palatable food maybe. It's shiny and bright and obvious and blunt and patronising and sycophantic… but people seem to enjoy that. I'm not sure how I feel about this.
I feel like only the really dodgy games would do that, it would be a very blatant exploitation of the system. Just have a section in the refund request that says "the game gave me the achievement erroneously" or something and then you can look into it if there's enough reports. Yes Steam has to step in occasionally, but that's inevitable unless you're happy with one side or the other getting screwed.
Like would any real game by a publisher do this? It'd tank their reputation by a huge amount. A lot of gamers care a huge amount about achievements so to get the 100% achievement on boot would actually really annoy them too. I just don't see it happening.
The only other solution I can think of is for developers to just never release a game that can be completed in under 2 hours. Which is just silly.
That's the thing, they both feel like toys to me. I get frustrated by MacOS because it feels like the interface is fighting me at every step and I can't "just do something" the normal fast way. I had to use one very frequently at work, so you'd think I'd get used to it eventually, but I just got increasingly more frustrated every day
But on an iPad I don't care as much that everything is weird. Maybe because I don't try and do anything complicated on it. Like I basically just use it as a mini TV to watch YouTube or use apps. One time I installed a word processor and IDE on my iPad and also got similarly annoyed with it like Mac OS.
I suppose I just do not gel with any Apple OS in a productive setting. It feels extremely unintuitive and I have to carefully think about everything I do and how to do it. Though I am spoiled by Linux nowadays, and I'm used to how computers worked 20+ years ago. I don't like it when things try and help me, it just slows me down. Just give me the file system and command line lol. I want to understand and feel everything that's happening in the computer
Apologies if I make any mistakes in this message, I'm only semi-conscious right now from exhaustion and I don't trust my sentence structure
I agree with you on that if it was indistinguishable from human art, you can enjoy looking at it. But the problem is A.I. is really bad at creating art that makes you "feel something"; it can make only something that "looks good" but that's about it (right now).
It's hard to explain the distinction. But if you watch someone like Bob Ross painting a landscape, the end result is different from an A.I. because the process itself is different. A human looked at the winter painting and decided to add a cabin for warmth in the composition, and a shed for the firewood. If you asked an A.I. for a "winter snowy forest landscape with a log cabin" you get… something. See if you can detect which one is the A.I. without looking for a signature. Ignoring which one superficially looks nicer, which one actually makes you feel the cold and the loneliness and coziness of the cabin? That's what art actually is, it's not all about visuals.
This was me. Turned out I had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I literally passed out during meetings and when driving home. Literally dragging myself out of bed and through the day semi conscious, running on stimulants and grit
I just kept slowly going downhill until one day I had a severe neurological event that I never recovered from, but forced me to address the issue and get it properly looked at. Most doctors told me it was in my head and I was just depressed or something. I had to see more than 20 types of doctor and specialist and it took years
Not saying this is what you have, there's a bunch of things that can cause chronic exhaustion, but this is not normally. Please don't ignore it
Really? What's your setup? That sounds cool