What’s up with boob armor in games? Why’s it even there? Imagine you walked into a room full of soldiers and one of them had on boob armor. Would you take the soldier seriously? If you answered yes, then that’s… interesting. For everybody else of course, you wouldn’t take it seriously! Boob armor is only a teensy bit more realistic than sporting green tank tops and shorts in the jungle.
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One of the loudest complaints I hear in the United States about universal healthcare is the wait times. People imagine this bleak picture: no matter how serious your condition is, you’re just stuck in line because someone else got there first.
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AI isn’t the problem. Your prompts are.
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If you’ve been paying attention to the headlines lately, you’ve probably seen the usual flood of fearmongering about AI.
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Like a lot of people, I thought the kind of artificial intelligence we see in movies — the fully autonomous, reasoning, adaptable kind — was still a long way off. The industry calls this Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). I called it far-off. Probably not in my lifetime. Maybe someday. But not today.
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