Honestly it being vaguely on par with the average person is in my opinion more of a statement on how fucking moronic the average person is than anything else, I’d quote George Carlin but that particular quote is pulled up so frequently so as to be repetitive so I won’t. Regardless I wouldn’t really call this current outcropping of chatbots to be AI but instead that they are VI or virtual intelligence close enough to trick most people on first contact but once you pick it apart enough you can figure it out quite fast. Though even then it’s still on the rather primitive side of the theoretical range

The sad part is that there are some bits of tech that started popping off around when this shit started to get popular that does have some really awesome potential such as acoustic diagnostics for machine or those systems that can detect cancer formation months or even years before a doctor could manually detect it. The thing is that while some of these systems may use language models or learning algorithms they basically have no overlap with shit like Chatgpt or Claude, but will almost certainly be hurt when the AI bubble pops just because they share some terminology.

Personally I’m hoping the US collapses and the Olympics gets cancelled or otherwise the state shuts it down. Mostly cause it’d be funny.

I think it’s because most people on Lemmy are technologically literate enough and over exposed enough to AI that’s it’s basically reached a stage where banning it is the default opinion. Personally I just think it’s a stupid waste of resources and want these fucking LLM companies to all go bankrupt.

I brought them up because my original comparison was between these modern ghoulish profligates and their ancient counterparts. I am very aware of the crimes of those I listed hell if I had the misfortune of somehow interacting with them the only one I wouldn’t kill out the gate would be Constantine, but for all their wrongs they still did good. Constantine held the Romans together and reformed the empire, Charlemagne set much of Europe down the road to recovery from western Romes collapse, and Saint Louis reformed the estates and arguably set france to become what it is today but these modern Bible thumpers have nothing but the cruelty.

I chose my monsters due to their contrast, if I wanted people I truly think were irredeemable I wouldve gone for the Spanish empire, the Teutonic Order, and fucking Belgium. All of whom spread the love and mercy of Jesus Christ all for power and gold.

Also I just realized my initial list gets increasingly French eugh.

Used to a couple years ago, but my current poison is Rimworld and CK3 the mod AtE. Also it’s mostly not my cup of tea will usually choose to play Fallout or more modern CRPGs unless I’m already burnt out on those but still in a CRPG kick.

Californian here, literally never heard that before and Ive been up and down the western states. Worst state I’ve been to is Utah fuck Utah.

As I understand it he was basically a first mover in the whole recycled memory foam pillow industry, now it’s borderline the standard so it made his whole business model irrelevant. It’s just another example of a rich asshole getting there due to one good idea rather than any actual business accumen.

Not really least of all because the circumstances were quite different. Constantine for example mostly reorganized the empire and legalized Christianity, Charlemagne more or less started out dealing with Saxon raiders who had been raiding the Frankish matches for decades (There’s a reason he never went to Denmark but did go after the Avars in modern Hungary), and Saint Louis of France was just kinda a good ruler and cracked down on the excesses of the estates.

Point is there is a clear difference between those ancient Christian rulers and their modern counter parts, hell one of Charlemagnes greatest achievements was laying the groundwork for literacy to raise quite a bit over a couple hundred years, kinda doubt any of these ghouls would do that with a gun to their heads.

You’re assuming these people are smart. The thing is I’m pretty sure they are basically incapable of deviating from whatever plans or strategies they cooked up ages ago so now they just double down till it either fails or works. Pretty sure that’s what happened with Iran for example, it was probably an old plan that had been sitting around for decades that maybe could’ve worked then but was left shelved until it became worthless, kinda like the Schlieffen plan during WW1.

Also I just realized your profile pic is the Neverwinter Nights logo.

Respectable and good are two different things, the men I listed could be respected both in spite and because of their evils since they did their actions themselves. These modern shitheels would probably all piss themselves if forced to interact with the people they hurt without their fucking security.

Hell I hit it at 8. Mind you it may have been a stress response to my whole fucken existence at the time but it hit like a truck regardless. Had a shitty little stache at 12.

Yeah that’s about the vibe I’m going for.

Personally I’m an “office worker gets hit by train sent to not WW1 as a little girl by a godling with too much ego” kinda guy.

Politicians should not have security, if they are going to have security near them it should only be for the safety of the local environment and for non elected officials. My biggest problem with Jan 6th is that they were a bunch of filthy fascists and not that they wanted to lynch Congress, frankly speaking it’d be funny and politicians are easily replaceable even the ones I vaguely like.

Human life is cheap and in the case of politicians all but forfeited apon their oaths.

Some meats are also vegetables.

I am banned from the coma ward. The morgue staff has yet to locate me yet.

Honestly they aren’t entirely wrong, there’s basically two types of economics financialization which is basically all bullshit and proper economic systems which is things like production, logistics, and services. You could probably burn the entire financialized side of the system down and it’d probably help the overall real economy in the long term hell it’d probably help in the short term if not the immediate.

All I can imagine witnessing their false faith is a rope around their necks and a spear through their hearts. I do wonder how much fury men like Charlemagne, Constantine, and Saint Louis IX of France would have if witnessed to their profligate successors.

Frankly it’s not even the evil that pisses me off the most it’s the sheer fucken hypocrisy of it all, they thump their Bible and act as if Christ would like them as they commit actions and deeds far worse than what any of what the characters of the Bible faced if not by brutality then certainly by sheer fucken scale. By the Allfather I fucken hate these cretins so much.

Also I think there’s still some fun and explore with them, namely with a good/ morally dubious variant. In every game we’ve seen them in it’s quite obvious that the base level personnel have no clue what the Enclave is actually doing, so have fun with that make a faction of these base level guys who survived while the higher ups died make it the battle of Adams AFB from fallout 3. It’d be fun to see them being minutemen like or something because they legit believe in the ideals of Americans without any of the bad because they weren’t poisoned enough by propaganda and exposure to the wasteland helped them chill out.

But yeah they are also a really fun exploration of a remnant government still kicking around. Some other ones for you to look up would be Mount Athos and the empire of Trebizond, both were Eastern Roman remnants with Mount Athos technically still existing.

It’s probably heavily dependent on distro, using Bazzite right now and the only bug I’ve run into recently is ProtonPlus not downloading Steam Tinker Launcher because “yad >= 7.2” for some fucken reason. Let me download it fucker I want to use Vortex to download my fuckoff NV modpack.

Fallout 2, Fallout 3, and Fallout NV the Nazis may have a different coat of paint but a fascist is a fascist regardless of what face they wear. Weirdly doesn’t apply to Fallout 1 since I think Unity would fall under weird form of Authoritarian Transhuman Collectivism, fuck I’ve started talking theory. In summary kill Enclave and Blòt the Romaboo larpers!

Is it bad that the Enclave is my second favorite faction besides the NCR?