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Not to mention the time to actually do all of this... this isn't going to be something that's ready in the next few months - more like a few years.

I don't think that's nearly the same thing. Those are genres. The blip isn't a genre, it's an event. You can have bits of it woven into a story, but do do the whole production around the blip and the ramifications is a totally different ballgame.

That's just a niche within a niche. No matter what story they focus on, there will not be a mass appeal- that's just the reality of it. Most will be like they chose the wrong ones, no matter what they choose. It's a losing proposition.

In the cases on Kickstarter that I've seen, there have been investigations into the fraud and there have been requests for how the money was spent. IANAL, so I don't know the actual terms for what is going on, but I do know that because of these that accounting of the funds has been presented to...

Which is exactly where the accounting comes in. Even if you do spend things on other ancillary bits (like through salaries and such), as long as your accounting shows that you were working on the project, it won't be found to be fraud.

There is recourse if an accounting of the funds is not forthcoming. It's not purely a buyers beware situation. But it turns out that way in most cases, as the burden of proof isn't anywhere near a requirement of a full accounting, but a best effort accounting.

Those aren't really all streaming though. They're for other software too. Streaming I have Paramount+, Hulu/Disney/ESPN, Netflix, HBO Max, Apple+, Peacock and Youtube. I have Prime too, but buy so much from Amazon that I don't even include it in my streaming costs as the wider benefits outweigh...

I was excited about this, but the company that bought it and the non-answers since (not to mention flubbing the community license, the ability to homebrew and just about everything) turned me off of it, though I do play in a few games on RPGG and really enjoy the system.

In itself it's not bad. The devil's in the details as the saying goes. If doing so would mean replatforming bad actors, then yes, it is a bad thing.

If someone replaces skilled workers with AI, they deserve what they get. The best use of AI is as a tool in order to accelerate the work of your skilled workers and to take the drudgery out of the work, staving off burnout. That's the approach my company it taking, and they have codes of ethics...

Yeah, I think that people are overthinking it from a perspective of exclusions and repercussions based on human knowledge. It uses the reality stone. It makes what he wants happen. So if he said half gone, half are gone- some dust, some just die as a result of the dusting. In the end, half are...

If you prompt someone to be ethical, is it really ethical? Or is it just following rules by rote? Without the ability to actually make decisions based on its own internal mores that might derive from several things that have nothing to do with the inputs you give it, I'd say it still doesn't...

So why is this even a point of controversy? In my particular post, I was just talking about peerage and automatic peerage based on sapience. I never spoke to the slavery, because it seemed quite evident.

Thinking about this - Lucas even makes it pretty transparent on screen in the first Star Wars movie (Ep IV: A New Hope). The Jawa droid setup looked akin to a traveling slave market. And they tortured R2-D2 to get the restraining bolt on. Also the scene with the R5(?) unit hanging upside down...

"Regardless of what the woke may wish," - Yeah, I'm out when someone says that unironically.

If you start to think about it in terms of the after effects if they just disappeared, then over 50% of the population was gone in that moment. I'd think that would be taken into account.

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It's really not as simple as that. I don't want to go into politics, but there's a lot surrounding this that makes this not as simple as saying that Americans elected him.

I'm saying that they aren't peers. If my computer became sentient at some point, that wouldn't make it de facto my peer. If someone clones a human then by the very nature of cloning it is still a human. Same with birth by the biological processes.

They were created from sentient life. They weren't parts created for machinery, but replicated children, force grown, genetically altered humans. There's a difference between cloning and manufacture.