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Any mechanic can be rendered as a procedure for enacting the mechanic, yes. But, I think there are probably also procedures that are not game mechanics. Or, perhaps, the things that interact with the metadata of the "game pieces" are mechanics. The things that govern the human interactions...

From back in my technical writing days - when documenting any process, you have choices to make as to the level of granularity you should use, depending on the purpose of the writing. So, the question isn't whether your version is the process or not. The question is whether your version...

Moved to appropriate forum.

The definiton difference that I have seen, and found helpful, is... A thing is "complicated" if it has many inputs, or many working parts, or it is hard to describe how it operates. A thing is "complex" if it is difficult to describe or predict the result of the thing's action. So, a...

Edit to clarify: Is "acceptance" an eager adoption, or being resigned that the Powers that Be are forcing it on us? You must be careful to differentiate between "the provider has decided to put it there" and "the user really accepts it". If a cell provider pushes AI onto the user's phone, if...

Responsibility to manage change properly lies with the people who want the change, not with the ones who do not want the change.

I, personally, have always preferred "process of play" over "procedure of play" A process is a series of steps you do to get to a conclusion or resolution. Mechanics are among the steps you use during the process. Communication is a tool used during the process, but it is not itself the...

I don't know if we will be able to help you. The Ennies haven't been run by EN World for years, and I don't think we are involved in their website or its support.

I am sorry, but there are far too many people on the internet who speak from ignorance to assume that when your text doesn't make it explicitly clear.

With respect, you seemed to completely ignore the impact on those who lose their jobs before re-hiring happens, if it ever happens. I feel that including the homelessness and death and such is important, to keep people from thinking of this in the purely economic view of job losses. The human...

It requires and understanding of how corporations will try to use them, whether they are good at those functions or not.

Two things: 1) Not necessarily. They might just accept the encrapification of work. Enterprise execs are generally pretty well shielded from the consequences of their choices these days. 2) Even if they do, that will be years of people losing their livelihoods. Those folks don't go into stasis...

So, you seem to not understand the point, here. This is not about debating for correctness points. Folks pushing against AI are not doing so to be "right". They are doing so to prevent unnecessary harm before it happens. So, in the best of possible worlds, the harm never happens. The point is...

So, the AI we are talking about here is a specific type - generative AI. You can't run a generative AI for "non-generative purposes" any more than you can run an internal combustion engine without burning any fuel.

Ugh. That sounds like a fine opportunity for malicious compliance.

And since there is still someone out there who makes the occasional buggy whip, buggy whip making is still A-OK?

Personal use is there to drive brand acceptance, to ease enterprise workforce uptake. You'll pick up the enterprise tools more willingly if you use them at home already.

From the typical user's point of view, what is the material difference between it going to China as opposed to Silicon Valley? In either case, my data goes into the hands of powerful forces who don't give a whit about me, and are more than happy to make a buck out of turning that data against...

Yeah. And, to me, this sounds like, "My players are thinking tactically, this feels like 4e." And my thought is then, "What, your players didn't think tactically in 3e? What game were you playing that I wasn't?"

I think there is a large difference between the game presenting a no-brainer choice, and the game punishing you if you don't make that choice. In the latter case, yeah, the game is pretty much responsible. If the PC will be just fine if they don't make that choice, though, it isn't the game's...