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[Ruin Explorer]

We're going to be a cultural void from the point of view of the future. Between digital formatting and DRM from companies that cease to exist, there's going to be very little footprint.

DRM is a non-issue in the longer picture because it will be trivial to decode with computers of the future. The same for digital formatting.

What's more of a threat is simple such a deluge of lies that no-one can tell what the truth was. But physical media is vulnerable to this too.

I’ve yet to have a good experience with ai helpbots, whether chat based or verbal. Until I experience better I say it’s about as overhyped as self driving cars.

There are narrow use-cases where they can be genuinely useful, for example, looking up certain kinds of programming questions, because it's scanned all of Github. Also being really lazy with Excel formulas.

But there are huge problems with them, insane problems. My brother demonstrated this really well a couple of days ago, by asking one a very straightforward question, I forget what, and the first half of its answer was true, then the second paragraph was just a complete and utter fabrication. And only someone with at least some specialist knowledge would have had reason to know the second paragraph was a fabrication. Otherwise you'd have no particular reason to even fact-check it.

I hear they particularly like to make up entirely fictional papers, attribute them to real academics, sometimes about controversial topics, and then the academics to have to explain to people contacting them that, no, not only did not write that paper that person can't get hold of, but it doesn't exist.

And this is the problem. Not only do we have a media culture which utterly thrives on lies, conspiracy and insanity, and a culture-culture, where part of society is obsessed with truly demented conspiracies, some half in jest, but many of them whole-hearted believers, but we also have an emerging set of technologies that makes it increasingly easy to lie, to make up massive lies, that particularly to non-experts, aren't necessarily immediately obvious as lies.

So that's going to be a big problem for historians of the future. Instead of one Protocols of the Elders of Zion or similar insanity, there will likely be truly countless volumes of conspiratorial lies (in all media formats) dreamt up to order at the whims of lunatics and propagandists. Entire false histories.

Great right? Looking forward to it. Suddenly Cyberpunk V3 is looking way more plausible than Cyberpunk 2077.

 

[Umbran]

What's more of a threat is simple such a deluge of lies that no-one can tell what the truth was. But physical media is vulnerable to this too.

This sounds a lot more like overall social commentary than it is gaming-related.
Please keep this about gaming.
Thanks.

 

[FrogReaver]

Apologies for getting off topic as well.

 

[jasper]

Speaking of gaming and physical meme. 3 of the d20s I bought in 1981 are flaking. What shall I do?

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Speaking of gaming and physical meme. 3 of the d20s I bought in 1981 are flaking. What shall I do?

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[billd91]

Back on the subject of Critical Role and Brian W. Foster:

'The Last of Us' Star Ashley Johnson Joins 6 Other Women in Suing Ex Brian Foster Over Alleged 'Depraved' Sexual Abuse

'The Last of Us' star Ashley Johnson and the six other women — including her sister, Haylie Langseth — accused her ex-boyfriend Brian Foster of domestic violence, intentional infliction of emotional distress, sexual battery, assault and stalking in a complaint filed on Tuesday

people.com

It's not just Ashley Johnson, but now 6 other women are included in suing Foster.

 

[Dire Bare]

Back on the subject of Critical Role and Brian W. Foster:

'The Last of Us' Star Ashley Johnson Joins 6 Other Women in Suing Ex Brian Foster Over Alleged 'Depraved' Sexual Abuse

'The Last of Us' star Ashley Johnson and the six other women — including her sister, Haylie Langseth — accused her ex-boyfriend Brian Foster of domestic violence, intentional infliction of emotional distress, sexual battery, assault and stalking in a complaint filed on Tuesday

people.com

It's not just Ashley Johnson, but now 6 other women are included in suing Foster.

When one person accuses you of terrible things . . . it can be hard to separate what "she said" from what "he said". But when seven women come forward . . . Foster still deserves a trial, but it's pretty clear he's an abusive sociopath.

Good on Ashley's friends at Critical Role for removing all content with Foster in it.

 

[darjr]

FYI, I have reason to want to delete this thread. Heads up if there is content you want to keep.

 

[billd91]

FYI, I have reason to want to delete this thread. Heads up if there is content you want to keep.

Really? That’s weird considering it’s newsworthiness in the gaming community.

 

[Sacrosanct]

it's pretty clear he's an abusive sociopath.

Accusations like this on a public platform are never a good idea. Just asking for trouble.