Just his name makes him a copy cat magnet tbh.

AGI is software with human like intelligence that can self-improve and the last two years is very measurable progress. We went from essentially nothing to multimodal models that can run on consumer hardware. OpenAIs new model, if they are to believed, is apparently much better at reasoning and can do long term research. I’ve also seen a few papers in the wild talking about self teaching methods and framework.

To be clear, I don’t know which will come first. It’s hard to know if the next leap is just a step or if there’s a giant chasm laying infront. I do know that it’s a lot easier to prototype with AI then fusion and there’s a lot more people working on it, both behind closed doors and publically on the internet. Fusion doesn’t have this advantage.

Your statement is basically a shot in the dark imo.

And you base this on what? Both things are very hard to predict even for experts in the respective fields.

My point is that it isn’t charity. It’s just a smart business decision that reduces their cost greatly and let’s the community work for them for free. With all the licenses involved, I don’t even think they can even add a charge.

If they could have built the same product but closed source, they would have.

I love FOSS and in the end this benefits he community, I just don’t think that was the driving factor behind the decision and it doesn’t excuse them bleeding dry developers and colluding with other store fronts.

I completely agree with you. UBI is overall a good idea, I just think UBI alone won’t be enough to properly deal with massive job loss and certain aspects of our economic systems are going to greatly reduce its impact. It’s a very complicated problem and we have some serious decisions to make, it’s further complicated by the fact that the best solutions will probably end up dealing a blow to the billionaire class and big corporations and they will most likely fight tooth and nail to keep the status quo.

Less than 400 employees with 8500 million in revenue while the indie industry struggles backs it up.

The fact that Gaben is a multi billionaire backs it up.

No one becomes a billionaire through hard work, it’s stolen wealth. Ask yourself if your arguments can be just as easily applied to bezos, it might give you some perspective on how insane it is to be defending Gaben and his ridiculously fat stack of cash.

Instead of circle jerking it with your buddy, why don’t you point out where I’m wrong.

To be clear these are my own opinions and I clearly think Epic Games should be regulated just like the other platforms.

I think all the platforms are predatory and taking advantage (except gog), it’s you guys that are giving steam a free pass when they are at best slightly better than the others but still shit. I guess bootlicking is easy if steams marketing team convinces you it’s in your best interest.

Oh 100%, I’m just saying his use of the word is in no way wrong like half the comments seem to imply. Everyone knew exactly what he meant and the definition is in most dictionaries.

This seems to pop up everytime the word is used and it’s a major pet peeve of mine.

My comment is only aimed at those that think third world only means the historical definition when that hasn’t been the case for at least two decades. The word third world is almost always used to mean developing country in day to day conversation.

My main fear is how this will affect renting and house ownership. Rents will probably go up as UBI comes into play and what’s left won’t be enough to save for any kind of down deposit. I doubt UBI will be enough for monthly mortgage payments in any case.

It’s already very hard to move past the renting stage, I imagine it will be impossible once on UBI.

The cast would be comprised of land and business owners. Again, it’s already almost the case, I just think UBI without careful considerations would amplify it.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/third world

Maybe saying all dictionaries is a bit much, I only checked a few.

I said this was costing us indie studios

You said they chose what price they put up their game for, implying the best solution is us paying more instead of steam getting less

I explained I think this is a bad decision for us the consumers and the industry as a whole and more importantly, that steam can absolutely afford to pay less.

Reread the whole conversation and try to understand what I’m saying if you want me to continue conversing with you. You seem to be ignoring my points and we are going in circles.

Implying I don’t know what a store front is or how it works is condescending.

Valve is a store front in a soft monopoly with other similar products and colluding with them. We would have more and better quality games if the government did its job and regulated the store front industry.

Instead of regulating, you seem to imply these costs should be passed down to us instead and the indie industry should just bring up it’s prices, just so Gaben can keep his six yatchs. I think you are confused about your own self interests.

I don’t either, that is what open source is for afterall. I’m trying to point out that this decision wasn’t out of love for his customers but out of love for his bottom line. This let him compete with platforms with devices while having a seriously low entry cost compared to them. It’s just a smart business decision but people treat it as if it was charity.

The margins are thin in indie development, especially when they are usually offered at bargain prices. I’m going with the assumption that if these platforms had been regulated years ago, a good number of indie developers that shut their doors would have survived with the extra profit. It doesn’t seem like a wild assumption to make.

Developing countries would be the synonym for third world in the definition used by OP.

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Gaben owns 6 yatchs and spends between 70 million and 100 million a year maintaining them. He’s in the same club as Bezos and the rest.

regulating this to something insane like 5% would definitely make us lose out on several of these features, not to speak about future features.

They would still have more than a billion in revenue. Steams is running on insane profits and it would still be running in insane profits at 5%. Look through the document posted and do some napkin math. Even at 0.5%, Gaben would still be able to buy a yatch, just maybe not the six like he currently owns. That isn’t an exaggeration, he owns six yatchs and spends between 70 million and 100 million a year maintaining them. That is who you are defending.

Languages evolve over time, all dictionaries now have OPs use of the word as the first definition.

Google has 4.9 billion users while Microsoft has 1.6 billion active devices.

I think comparing them to small nations is dumb but it doesn’t seem extreme when you take into account the huge amount of users (half the planet uses google everyday)

In any case, it’s up to the government to make sure our grid is robust and runs on renewables. Microsoft is building it’s own nuclear reactor because the government is so fucking inept. This is a scape goat.