The meaning of life (to you) could be to: “Just be here because here is where we happen to be.”
It’s not that deep, really. Some people want to have an impact, others just want to chill. I’m just curious what people’s first response is to that question and so far I have seen lots of interesting comments.
nobody is gonna convince me of anything now
This is part of the problem. If two people engage in open debate and neither of them can be convinced to change their minds about anything, then what exactly is the point?
I will listen to people and engage with their arguments, and remain openminded to be convinced. Life isn’t that simple and believing you know all the answers is naive.
If you stop viewing Jesus as a deity and start viewing him as just a really nice guy, and you ignore much of the rest of that book, then I think he is a good role model.
Strangely, all of the good things he said and did are ignored by the people that worship him.
Turn the other cheek - nope, let’s blow people up in the ocean just in case they’re doing something wrong.
Love thy neighbour, the story of the good Samaritan - nope, fuck anybody that’s not rich and definitely fuck immigrants.
If that is how you feel about AI, then you would need to stop posting on social media and probably even stop having text conversations on your phone. Stop buying things online, stop watching YouTube, etc.
Every bit of virtual footprint that you have will, in some way, be used to train AI / machine learning / be sold for marketing purposes.
I don’t think stopping your life because AI exists is the right thing to do. Those ‘other artists losing their jobs’ would also be fuelling AI wiht this logic, so we should all stop making art?
I’ll do it for £9!
I feel your response warrants quite a deep and philosophical response in return.
No reason to share my drawings
That depends why you were sharing them in the first place. It does suck that your content will be stolen and potentially recreated in the future - I have to ask, how do you foresee that affecting you?
Let’s go back to 2010, you share your drawings, some people see and enjoy them, and the world keeps spinning. Is that what you want to share them for, for people to enjoy them?
If that’s the case, then my question is: Why does that change if AI is scraping your drawings?
People will still see and enjoy your drawings, regardless of whether AI consumed them or not.
it will only be good to the AI corporations
Why will it only be good to the AI corporations? That implies that it wouldn’t be good to anyone anyway, in which case, there is no point posting them either way - but I don’t think that’s true. I think it’s good for you to share your drawings and get feedback, and it’s good for other people to see them. The addition of AI is a negative one, but it doesn’t remove the good, it just adds some bad.
That’s a great idea.
I think it would be a relatively easy problem to solve, I think being one-shot on the highest difficulty is expected, but making every enemy a damage-sponge is both anti-fun and poor game design.
Just change the scaling - damage scaling is fine as-is, health scaling needs to be drastically reduced. If a barbarian gets one-shot on the easiest difficulty, having it take like, five shots whilst also increasing the risk should be fine.
Skyrim and Oblivion difficulty is very stupid. If you change difficulty after playing a character for 100hr it isn’t so bad, but if you want to start out on the hardest difficulty, I’d say it’s actually impossible to play unless you have some kind of cheese tactic. Shooting a barbarian for like 1/100th of their health bar? And they one-shot you? What the hell kind of design is this?
Are there any good examples of AI in games that do the opposite of this? Off the top of my head, pretty much every game works like this, I imagine having every NPC having its own vision & memory would become very complex to manage.
It is a fine line, like in Minecraft durability obviously makes sense, so it makes sense that other games try to emulate that. But then look at Stardew Valley, one of the most popular mods is the one that stops fences from degrading because repairing them is tedious.
1.5l isn’t available in my country, but if it was, I’d drink it in one sitting haha
Jarritos and it isn’t close. The Mandarin flavour. Mexican sugar is next level.
I also think Coke itself is ‘underrated’ I would go so far as to say it’s an elixir. Hungover? Need a pick-me-up? Just want a nice drink with dinner? It’s insanely good, probably why it got so popular in the first place. You can say the same for any sugary soft drink though.
When did I argue? You’re entitled to your opinions and as I said I’m not going to disagree with you. Pointing out that they are subjective was not an attack but an observation. I just wished you would have a better time if you ever came back because it sounds to me like it wasn’t a good one.
I’m not looking for an argument, I was just commenting on the similarities of the cultures.
All subjective and I’m not going to disagree with you. I hope if you ever do find yourself back in the UK that you have a more enjoyable time.
As somebody from the UK I understand your original comment but putting Germany on this list is interesting – I find German and UK culture to be very similar.
I do think USA would benefit from a giant dome, don’t you?
That is my life motto as well, although I say, “if you are the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room” and I live by that.
With this perspective, is death really a ‘meaning’ to life, or is it rather a ‘fuel’ for more life?
If it’s the latter, then that implies there is another meaning to life. There is a circle which keeps the wheel of life spinning - but where is the wheel going, and why?
The ultimate death of everything, perhaps, in which case I suppose you are correct.