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Okay, that was a bad assumption on your part, and I don't see where you got that from, but consider that cleared up. My position is that power corrupts and the corrupt particularly seek power. I do. Not all, but most, to at least some degree. A lot of MPs are very lightly corrupt though. But...

ROFL. You've got this one nothing argument that you keep repeating. Nope. One tiny counter-argument proves nothing. It's worthless. You're pissing in the wind. Get a real argument. You haven't even produced evidence to support this claim. And no, "it has a tiny benefit so it's not bad" is a...

That's an interesting question - does power attract the corrupt or does power inherently corrupt? I tend to think both are true myself. But I could see your argument that it's just the former.

You mean the mainstream DC/Marvel heroes, right? Because outside of the mainstream, stuff like The Authority is about exactly this. This is something comics authors have been putting in since the 1990s or earlier.

It seems like your position is "The intelligence services as a whole, are morons who would do the dumbest thing possible as fast as possible". Now if we're talking about the 20th-century CIA, well, I can't argue with that, but I don't really think MI6 and MI5 are quite as keen on rushing towards...

If the state killed or tried to kill my friends/family in order to punish me for not doing what they wanted? Sure. At that point they've proven they're completely amoral and monstrous. This is something covered extensively by Invincible and other comics. It's not like this is some shocking...

I was assuming we all took that for granted. It's not disingenuous, I just had more respect for people's intelligence than you apparently do. Them stopping concealing it means they have no more leverage or control at all, because they have nothing else. Then you are free to act as you will. So...

What I'm asking is, is that your argument? Is your argument just defeatism, that because we failed to stop the car, we will fail to stop GenAI being needlessly shoved into every crevice of society? Because if so, we can be certain of environmental collapse, and sooner rather than later, because...

I've met humans. When they get upset enough, bad things happen, and for most people, the only things ultimately stopping them from doing worse are: A) They care deeply about people around them. and B) They're afraid of the consequences of doing something bad (for themselves and others). For...

I don't think the intelligence services are quite as outright stupid as you suggest. If they didn't "react well", can you explain, in detail, and with specifics not generalities, what you think they could possibly do? They certainly don't know anything about Kryptonite or Earth's Yellow Sun...

Really? Most governments have shown they're willing and able to keep secrets for decades, even a century or more. Here in the UK we're still keeping massive and largely needless secrets about Northern Ireland, decades after the peace agreement, for example.

I mean, where does an 800lb gorilla sit? Wherever it wants. It's the same situation here. You say "No" and they say "Ok" or they try and politely and like grownups make their case to you until you either agree (or agree to some limited form of it) or get bored and leave. What are they going to...

This is a very shoddy argument. You pick one extremely narrow use-case and claim, without supporting evidence, that GenAI is "better" at that, and thus try to say "Well there's one exception I managed to dig up, so your general argument must be bad", which is laughable. Also, you need to detail...

You can't prove a negative. You're asking for the impossible. It's on people like you, who are promoting GenAI, claiming it's inevitable, to say that there is a societal benefit, that it does benefit people. So far we've seen no benefit to people in general, only tremendous and increasing...

They should not have been to remotely the extent they were though. It was a dead-end path that helped destroy the planet, and was pushed solely for money, not because it was actually a good idea. Public transport was the primary path that should have been taken, and individual motor vehicles...

Larian did an AMA on Divinity here: My personal summary would be It's set in the same continuity as DOS2 - this is a very bad thing, imo, because DOS' lore is somehow a worse version of early Divinity games' lore, which is low-grade generic-grimdark orcs and elves fantasy, the sort of thing...

Swen has specifically said it's a bad thing, so it seems very strange for him to be aiming for that. Yeah, because honestly Larian made pretty bad games - I know because I played them - frankly DOS1/2 are themselves ludicrously overrated. What's your point? You seem to be engaging in some kind...

Yeah I think flying in space would be something you'd need to practice for months or years, honestly, to be able to navigate, even within the Solar system. It would be terrifying and dizzying and whilst finding Earth's Yellow Sun might be easy enough, and you wouldn't die or w/e, you might...

I guess this raises the question though - do we have superman's general power set (common to many superheroes), or superman's exact powers and weaknesses? Because it does change things. Once Kryptonite (specifically) and Yellow Sun/Red Sun (specifically), get into the mix, then things are much...

I actually strongly agree. I won't derail the thread with a detailed discussion but it's not just nostalgia or something, but I do think TV has kind of gone down a dead end by only applying big budgets and serious writing to long-form shows, and it's part of why YouTube and so on have been so...