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Yeah, had me in the first half.

Games and movies have already used algorithms for background crowds and hair movement, AI would just be a continuation of that kind of thing. One reason to be against it for that purpose is because of the concern of how it will be implemented, since those old algorithms were seen as a tool for professionals to use instead of something to replace those same professionals.

The main concern with generative AI is the ‘replace your workforce’ mentality that is associated with it. The copyright one is secondary.

I was mocking you.

While the final pose is practically identical to a Nazi solute, the motion is completely different.

“it’s only a nazi salute if it is from the Nazideuxe region of France!”

Reliability tends to be in opposition to efficiency for mechanical stuff. Yeah, it sucks more energy which is bad, but if you use 50% less stuff for an efficient unit but end up replacing it 4 times while the old one still runs you end up using more materials.

We need a happy medium between as efficient as possible but only last for a few years and reliable but very inefficient.

Don’t those involve creative approaches and tricking or otherwise outsmarting the devil or local equivalent?

This is just Johnny being better than the devil and having a massive ego about it. That specific situation tends to be punished.

Time for a drum solo!

You are missing out then, frozen lakes are so much fun.

“How will the homeless freeze to death without cold winters?”

Yes, that would be cheating.

If the vampire knows it is intended to be a no then it doesn’t matter. The person could never finish it as long as the vampire knows the real answer is no despite the words being stated not matching up.

No. It is magic so they would not be able to enter partway through an answer as doing so would make it clear that the vampire knew it was really a no.

That’s what lids are for.

You should be ashamed of your ruthless reign of terror against plants, harvested by the billions and modified by humans in ways that no longer resemble their ancestors.

It has been a couple decades since I read it, but the underlying joke that it is just a math equation is the same. Being the wrong equation (6 x 9 = 54) is even funnier though.

Well, the question that lead to the meaning of life is ‘what is six times seven’ so probably not the asterisk thing.

There is no inherent meaning of life. Humans, and probably a lot of animals like whales and dogs, create meaning through what they do and how it is perceived by others.

It continued to bake in the cast iron after removing it from the oven because cast iron stays hotter longer.

That defeats the purpose of doing it in real time as it would introduce a delay.

Regular old live broadcast closed captioning is pretty much ‘good enough’ and that is the standard I’m comparing to.

Actual subtitles created ahead of time should be perfect because they have the time to double check.