Believing it can do Game Dev, but will for some reason stop at being able to transfer all those 3D modelling and animation abilities for VFX is a bit of a pipe dream. If it can model and animate characters and events in video games VFX tools will start dropping too.

…and did nothing to establish todays wide spread organizations, networks, ideas, and engagement. History doesn’t exist!

Generational war is a way to distract from class war, and a way to disconnect people from being inspired by the long HISTORY of class struggle.

The 8 hour day? Unions? The wellfare system (such as it is), maybe Grandma was on the picket lines for some of that too? Especially likely if she was poor.

There are labour activists and socialists in every generation.

I mean Microsoft is currently preferable to Google.

Microsoft:

Microsoft’s “biomimicry” program is reshaping the land around its data centers with restored wetlands and native gardens to help the buildings blend into local ecosystems at 20-plus sites, reports The Verge. Critics question the company’s motives after recent energy deals, such as a 20-year deal inked in June to buy power from a planned Chevron gas plant in West Texas. Public Citizen’s Texas director, Adrian Shelley, called the plan “basically lipstick on a pig.”

The Mount Pleasant site, home to Fairwater, which Microsoft calls the “world’s most powerful AI data center,” has 100 acres of prairie and forest in a Lamparek Creek restoration with the Root-Pike Watershed Initiative Network. Its executive director, Dave Giordano, told the outlet that Microsoft developed its stormwater ponds with forebays to retain sediment, one of a number of accommodations for the environment. “Not all data center companies are the same,” he said. It is a living example of the company’s answer to AI data center backlash.

Google:

As Finnish newspaper Kaleva reported last month, Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares — the equivalent of almost 500 football fields — for two new data centers in the northern part of the European nation without concluding the necessary environmental assessments.

Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors started clearing trees in the area months ago, raising the alarm bells at the Finnish Nature Conservation Association.

But it’s ultimately leverage for killing the planet and making a destructive technology seem acceptable. We’ve seen “industrial parks”. It’s a bandaid on a heart attack.

An insect house, with different sized holes/enclosures for various insects to try to live in.

Yes they embraced the revolutionary technology of cars, which enabled post-WW2 suburbia to boom, which established the economic base for the rest of industry to progress to what we have now.

…so do we blame them? Because if you blame them, then expect Gen Alpha to blame you for letting AI take hold.

With AI replacing the games and VFX industries, they’ll be lots more of this stuff going on I imagine.

Holodeck-like game dev will probably eventually be a thing… And I thought I’d be happy about that. But I’m not.

Hopefully the planet and the species will last long enough that we’ll laugh about Data Centers taking up huge buildings… And how toxic everything was back in 2026…

… hopefully we’ll survive long enough to see today like we now see the 1950s (with nuclear techniques) and earlier. But I just don’t think we’re improving the world.

…and Nuclear Power hasn’t really be that great either.

Say more.

Calling progressives Communists and Marxists started with Hitler. Even after the war it was carried on by Fascists. From Wikipedia:

Origins

The phrase “cultural Marxism” to mean a cultural attack from the left aimed at destroying society and installing Marxism/Bolshevism can be traced back to the 1930s, appearing in the 1938 July-September volume of “British Union Quarterly”, the journal of The British Union of Fascists.[11][12] The short essay claims the source of cultural Marxism is the “deracinated” nature of “city-dwelling”, and the “indiscriminate toleration-psychosis of liberalism, inherent in Social-Democracy”.[11][13]

It’s not pointed out enough that Conservatism is Cultural Fascism.

You bring honor to your house.

A perfect move, this will surely raise his approval rating.

I also think, why not make it illegal to vote against him? One party, one truth.

What’s under that though? Is it another belief? Such as; some jobs are so horrible people must be forced into them? Or perhaps; life being told what to do is easier than having to decide? Or simply; I’d prefer to be cog in a great machine? Part of a team?

Or maybe just, some jobs bad and good, only a few people are suited for them? Is it false meritocracy to hide the shame of having accepted plutocracy? Or perhaps an earnest acceptance of the game of Capital. Acceptance that ones own position must be due to ones own mistakes, and ergo, a superiors is due to their good choices? That kind of justice?

What is it, and can we change their underlying belief?

Here’s the guy I’m talking about, he’s got reflections and raytracing and all sorts working in them. His talk (for Blender Con) was only uploaded last week. He gets into the render to times:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qBPuZ-1StZc

Right, on the same day it’s come out that Trump is making it harder for US citizens abroad to vote, and Hegseth has announced a ‘Department of Religious Affairs’ in the military which appears to exclusively be for Cristian Pastors/soldiers.

…and the claim is LGBTQIA+ people are hijacking the US?

Yeah he just announced the new “Department of Religious Affairs”… Which is a basically a Christian Nationalist organization within the military whose key function is to distract from Hegseth losing the war in Iran.

It’s like doing shit on the table, to distract from the other shit you did on the table.

What, Trump is doing a slow rolling attack on voting in a long term quiet take over of American democracy…

…and you’re all just going to put up with it because it’s slow and systematic!

Well okay!

If they’re smart, they’ll ask to put Tom Murphy’s new Imposter Card system in, which basically allows any hardware to render highly complex scenes.

I’d say it’s probably batter than Unreal Engines nanite system, which has never been performant.

If you’re a good person all questions can be positive questions!

This may not be what OP is into, but there’s an idea about Roswell that matches what they’re saying. Namely that America after the UFO crash was suddenly sitting on a bunch of new technology to reverse engineer.

So they did!.. And that explains America’s technical innovations since the 1950s.

So the Government set up a plan to slowly figure out and release all this tech (that’s a big change), and OP might be seeing AI as one of the final pieces.

Of course in actual fact you can traces the gradualness behind most technology, and look at the history of science to see nothing just popped into existence.

Part of the tech boom in the 1950s was from advances due to funding and science being concentrated and expanded (with the power of government funding) during the war years.

…and a bunch of the past 70 years innovations didn’t even cone from America. So really the Roswell-Tech-Boom theory falls apart. But of course like all conspiracy theories you can just recalibrate and retrofit it:

• Alien tech was given to other countries to release
• Universities were told to make fake histories to show gradual development.
• The Government only pretends to be incompetent to hide the great responsibility it received in the 1950s.
• Other people won’t understand because they don’t have my insights.

Yeah yeah, the singularity…

…which is why modern mass produced houses (with paper thin flammable walls) are so much sturdier than older well built houses?

It’s why modern cars with subscription models for seat warmers and extra acceleration are preferable to older cars that just had seat warmers and top acceleration already built in…

…and why a radio play written by AI is 1000 times better than a radio play written by real people, right?

Because the singularity is making everything better?

Have you considered that all that media you’ve been consuming is premised on selling you on ideas and purchases? On technologies that aren’t necessarily better, but keep their sponsors happy?

Don’t get me wrong. AI when correctly trained can be useful. But I don’t think it’s the cure all people make it out to be, and I don’t think we’re anywhere near a singularity.

Here’s a video debunking a lot of the AI stuff the media claims:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=claxN4oxDuY

See… That’s a person who actually knows how to research. Where as just watching things isn’t really research. To properly research things you need media literacy and meta studies, and to understand the fundamentals of how things work… And to run practices and experiments on how things play out IRL.

Ultimately human labour (both mental and physical) drives the world 99.9% of the time, and AI hasn’t alleviated that problem except in the most innane areas (real estate agent copy writing and advertising copy writing).

Even programmers admit that when they use AI it’s not their best work, with many admitting it writes poor quality code.

I myself hooked some models up to Blender to allow it to create 3D scenes from prompts and found it could barely place spheres and cubes to mimic sculpting.

None of this technology is bright, or the be all and end all (extra training actually has logarithmically declining returns). So far, and for the immediate future it’s EMPTY HYPE, and human art, science, and WORK HOURS are still increadibly intense, and increadibly necessary.

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch… You may well have just picked up a bunch of rocks because the media told you they’ll be chickens soon enough.