The reality is that a certain portion of people will never believe that an AI can be self aware no matter how advanced they get. There are a lot of interesting philosophical questiona here, and the hard skeptics are punting just as much as the true believers in this case.
It’s honestly kind of sad to see how much reactionary anti-tech sentiment there is in this tech enthusiast community.
Me, practicing Anarchy praxis by charging my old iPod with a 30 pin connector:
In fact, the “cinematic” shit was the worst part of it IMO. There were gameplay segments where it got very tedious.
Photorealism just puts a lot of constraints on gameplay mechanics and art direction.
People are just tired of brain rot in general
After 2016, the DNC already halved their influence. I’d argue they are a necessary evil to prevent various scenarios where bad actors try to hijack a primary.
But more generally, the entire point of a political party is to express political preferences via a platform, and to back candidates which support that platform. I don’t really understand this idea otherwise… if a dozen Republicans decided to run as democrats to “troll” the primary, you’d want the party to step in, right?
In 2008 Obama was the outsider candidate but he was actually popular enough that the party had no choice but to back him in the end. That’s how the process is supposed to work.
I’m sure several democrats will run?
She will run into the same problems as Clinton. The right has spent a decade attacking her at every opportunity so that she is a polarizing figure, whether she deserves it or not.
If you want a real trip click through the different archive dates on this site. Dude goes through a whole progression of who he’s pissed off at month the month.
I think China is just in full facepalm mode about how shockingly incompetent the Russians are and assume that they will fuck up such a delicate situation like strategic dick waving.