The number drops a bit when the polls are done in secrecy. Still far higher than any western government, mind.

To clarify for any pseudo intellectual who happens to be reading:

“<X> is true for <reason> you utter idiot” is not an example of the ad hominem fallacy.

“<X> is true because you’re an utter idiot” is an example of the ad hominem fallacy.

Glad to be of service.

Have you considered taking a communications course so you don’t sound like a pretentious, obfuscating jackass?

Eschew gratuitous obfuscation. (See what I mean?)

In AI alone, we lead the world.

*Deep Seek has entered the chat.*

It just lacks machines that think. Which we do too, but the things they’re trying to push as thinking are already causing extreme damage to our culture …

… time for the Butlerian Jihad before things get so bad you need an existential war to fix them.

I highlighted the parts you missed. You might want to clean your screen so you can see all the words before responding.

Now compare Lemmy, a phone, or the Internet to “a machine in the likeness of a human mind”.

Dune is full of machines. It just lacks machines that think. Which we do too, but the things they’re trying to push as thinking are already causing extreme damage to our culture, so … time for the Butlerian Jihad before things get so bad you need an existential war to fix them.

This is the danger of a “quick look”. It makes you look ridiculous when you talk about it later.

Have you heard of the Butlerian Jihad?

My vision isn’t quite as extreme.

Quite.

Do you think we should still harvest fields by hands instead of using tractors?

That is absolutely not the issue and you know it. How do I know you know it? Because you’re not a moron, which leaves only “disingenuous”.

Your “harvest field by hands” thing isn’t even remotely close to the issue. AI isn’t a tractor making tilling, seeding, harvesting, etc. etc. etc. easier. AI is stealing, say, the wheat from other people’s farms and putting it into your silo and making bread with it.

Yes. Open source. So you give a few hundred lines of material so that people can steal millions to billions of lines of it.

A perfect exchange that is.

I’ve been tempted to go there a few times, but then I realized the only question I’d have is “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH ALL Y’ALL!?” and decided that would be unproductive.

I think people just hate ai.

And yet you don’t take the further step of asking why people “just hate ai”.

Building a project around the mass theft of culture is a problem to me. Hence the downvote.

This right here is most especially tedious to me: all the “politics” discussion really meaning “American political obsessions”. There’s only 350 million or so Americans and yet they act as if their politics are all that matters to the remaining 7.7 billion or so of us.

One of the great parts of this game is even if your not going to win, you can still have a huge influence on the outcome so you are still involved in all the politicking.

That’s one of the things I liked, yes. If you couldn’t be King you could be a Kingmaker.

Never tried Battle for Julu - I’ll add it to my list of future game ideas!

Battle for Julu is, to my knowledge, only published in Chinese, so you might have a hard time playing it:

I Internet-know the designer. She’s made quite a few games, but this one she specifically made for people like me: simple enough that we don’t get bored to tears, intending it to be basically a gateway drug.

It was one of those strange games for me. Usually I’m not a fan of wargames, except the simpler ones (like Battle for Julu B.C. 207) every once in a while (my SO is an avid wargamer), but this game, despite being the kind of game I should hate just had me enjoying myself when I got the time to play it.

Enjoying myself, and hating all my fellow players, mind. 😉

Another good one for this, if you can find it, is Republic of Rome.

In it you have to cooperate or everybody loses as the republic falls. But you also have to backstab your enemies to get ahead to win. Cultivating a good sense of rhythm so that you can backstab someone at just the right moment to prevent them from being able to retaliate is the fine art that wins that game.

When marketing staff with no knowledge apply buzzwords to things.

The links left me more confused, not less.