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I wasn't thinking of CO2 runaway effects. I am thinking about limited effects that still might exceed our ability to adapt to the resulting changes to the environment. Runaway effects are an extreme version of that.

I don't think that this is actually decided yet, and it will definitely be dependent on how soon we respond. There are definitely amounts of CO2 we can blast into the atmsophere that will lead to results we can't stop anymore and survive long term. Will we let it that bad? We hope not. Heck...

One "fail-forward" or "yes, but" thing approach comes to mind: if a character fails a check, instead of not seeing something, or not knowing something, they spend some resource like "inspiration" or "willpower" and it still works. I could see an implementation where this is limited to certain...

I recently tried out Shape of Dreams. Enjoyed it so far. It's a Rogue Lite, which I haven't played that many before. You're in a dream world and move from areas on a map, at each spot you have to fight some enemies and can collect memories (powers) and upgrades. Your character comes with some...

I am not debating that it's more than just upscaling the picture, but it is still inferring graphical details that do not exist in the original picture based on machine learning. It's still not fundamentally different. The upscaling cannot guarantee that all the pixels look how the original...

But what does that mean? AI has no intent, no vision. But does it it strip out intent? It's a tool, we don't expect it to add intent. The reason it might not be copy-rightable might be because the AI itself would alwasy be creating derivative work, because it is fed with millions of pieces of...

No. DLSS any version is generative AI. It uses artificial intelligence - based on deep learning - to create an image that isn't in the original content made by the artist. The game is rendered in a lower resolution and possibly at a lower frame rate than is later put out on screen, DLLS upscales...

Technically, we enforced the rule, but almost every multi-classed character managed to avoid the penalties by staying within the limitations. Except one character, I think, some Fighter/Paladin/Cleric/Hospitaler mix that he had min/maxed fairly well and spend an evening before game night to work...

I would also absolutely recommend it to anyone. I have not read the book, I watched it with another person that hadn't, one person that read the book and one that heard the audiobook. We all left pretty happy, it was a great movie. The book readers/listeners of course noticed that a lot of the...

I don't know, what does thsi "consistent with artististic intent" mean? And is artistic content something that is static? Did the triangle shaped Lara Croft chest area represent "artistic intent"? I doubt it. I think they would have liked to be closer to be something realistic looking. If there...

It's presumably an expensive show, with lots of sets, CGI and so on. So it's kinda understandeable that it needs to bring in a certain viewership to be considered worth it. I kinda feel like Star Trek's biggest troubles however are Paramount's business situation. Big transactions, big debts...

The weirdest thing is that you don't reincarnate, a new, completed body is created. That's clearly magic, but is that really reincarnation? I think reincarnation means you're literally reborn. You're not going on adventures unless your comrades are ready to change your diapers (assuming you even...

Well, if people can't afford it anyway, then you're not going to see many games rely on this feature. They need people buying their games, after all. Heck, it might be cheaper to simply disable the feature for the developers so they don't need to deal with people complaining about bugs and...

On the other hand, the GenAI face seems to look a bit more like it's a real person, it just isn't the one it's supposed to be. I would expect that an "artist" that has DLSS5 capabilities and can test it around might alter the original so the AI produces something more closely to the real...

Probably no one would have minded if Mass Effect: Andromeda's "artistic vision" had been disintegrated for the sake of the character faces and facial animations.