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What are you playing this week? February 05 2024 Edition
  • I'm getting into enshrouded with a friend. We've just rescued the carpenter. This game has a lot of promise!

    I also finally bought Ori and the Blind Forest. This will be my first metroidvenia style game.

  • What's the best way to read a book in a dark room?
  • I'm also Kobo Clara for a couple of years now and very happy with it.

    Could you maybe elaborate on your experience with KOReader? It's the first I hear about this. Maybe the only downside to Kobo is its unresponsive software. It's just so slow. Does this KOReader improve on that?

  • What games can you not get into because they feel too outdated?
  • I completely agree with Dark Souls! That was also the title I had in mind which did groundbreaking work and paved the way for so many games since.

    Haven't played Factorio so maybe that's one I missed again lol.

  • What games can you not get into because they feel too outdated?
  • Yeah maybe, thanks for the tip.

    However, I do feel that, being the groundbreaking tech of that era from which all post games practically were derived, I won't have the same "iconic" experience today as I would have had back then. I feel like I just have to live with the fact that I missed it.

    That's okay though. Maybe some games today will be the predecessors and iconic titles of times to come ;).

  • What games can you not get into because they feel too outdated?
  • Probably controversial but half life 2 for me. I got it very cheap on a sale after years of hearing how good it was. Just couldn't get into it. Even worse, every time I felt nauseated after a couple of minutes.

    I guess this is just an example of a "you had to be there" scenarios. I was there as a gamer at the time but had no funds to play all the games. I skipped on HL 2 and can't get into it 20 years later.

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  • Also been playing RTM with a friend the past week. Definitely fun but still pretty buggy. TBH it's the sweet spot for us LOTR fans and Survival fans. It's got a bit of both but does not excel in any of them.

  • What android phones do you recommend and why?
  • I have the same feeling. Using a 5+ year old OP6 and still good battery life and overall performance. The only reason why I want change is because of security updates having stopped already for quite some time. I'm hesitant to jailbreak and install clean android because of banking apps.

  • if it turned out there was a sentient AI capable of running the world would you accept it or rebell against it?
  • First of all, a lot of humans do see the flaws but are indeed unable to correct them. This would also show in the training data. The AI OP is talking about would be much more powerful to actually act and change something.

    Don't confuse Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) or even Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). Your statement suggest you understand ANI, which is all the AI that we know today. However powerful they seem, they can only reproduce what they have learned from the training data.

    AGI (or human level AI) will be more what OP means here. Sentient, in a way that it can make its own decisions, think on a human level, feel on a human level and act on those feelings. If it feels humans are not important or harmful to what it values, it will decide to remove humanity as a whole. Give it the power to govern the world and it most certainly will act not in our favour.

  • if it turned out there was a sentient AI capable of running the world would you accept it or rebell against it?
  • That's where it would start. I imagine it would be capable to see the flaws in the system and rectify them. This most probably means we as humans won't come out on top however.

    A sentient ai would probably be the most dangerous thing to the human species as a whole.

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