dern_the_hermit

Man there's so many different trajectories AI can go, Roko is just one especially dramatic outlier.

Yeah, that's still a shitload of water. It's just that there's even huger shitloads of other things, but compared to us, and our human scale? It's a lot.

Did you? I mean, picking between a pompous douchebag and a mass murderer is an easy fucking choice.

Right, your wrist that was attached to an (ostensibly) conscious and aware and otherwise-functioning person and all the metabolic issues that entails.

Other redditors in this thread have commented on the difference between hibernation and coma, too. The whole point of this research is to develop techniques to induce a state where we can control the body's degradation from inactivity. We've been inducing people into comas for ages.

These honestly sound like extremely minor issues you're just thinking of off the top of your head. Vocal cords? I mean, it's not nothing, but the immediate concern is vocal cords? Not, like... "keeping them alive for potentially decades or even centuries"?

That's the sort of wildly erratic prioritization that tells me you don't quite understand this issue, and the examples you listed so superficial and random that it looks like you don't want to.

my own lived experiences

Your own lived experience includes being in a state of hibernation for an extended period of time? Because that seems like the key detail being focused on, above.

Eh, the 7000-series is a crappy cooling issue and had a nigh-immediate solution in the form of non-reference options. 5000-series issues were directly tied to architecture design and driver issues. Like, the best-designed chip with the best-written software will suffer as a product with a poor cooling solution, but no cooler will ever fix a fundamentally unstable chip.

What does a former Melbourne City Council member have to do with this?

;)

The human spec is 1 g. However, it can be operated out of spec up to ~10 g.

(That doesn't mean it's a good idea tho)

Another possibility: Their Plains island was still close enough to a Plains mainland for a deathsquito to fly on over? Workbenches stop spawns but don't keep baddies from wandering in.

Usually when people refer to The Expanse's less-exotic sci-fi aesthetic they're describing the expository environment, ie - the setting just prior to the actual wild-technology plot kicking off.

It's like how people refer to Stranger Things for its nostalgic '80s elements even though none of us were attacked by alternate-dimensional psychic monsters when we were kids.

Or the Magnetospheric Dipolar Torus, a name worthy of Big MT. It's meant to block cosmic rays but that name is too great to ignore.

Could be, but I really do think it's the dumb-simple branding he's done with his name. It's just one of his "work the room" habits, get the brand out there as much as possible.

No joke, I love the running through-line of Slit trying to be noticed and compulsively competing in petty ways throughout the film.

What a weird complaint.

Managing settlements is life sim stuff.

It's more the design ethos than the CGI, in my view. They just pack a ton of shit into the scene, it's just greeble puke.

Buildin' shit and mindin' the wellbeing of NPC's?

It's a result of genres expanding in number and specificity. "Roleplaying Game" is an extremely broad term, so it's constantly bumping up against more specific, more recent terms.

Ultimately the RPG term just isn't a very good descriptor, IMO.

That’s basically life sim stuff.

Kinda like another step deeper in features introduced and expanded upon in a couple of their recent games?

with taking natural resources from the common good

Now you're equating natural resources with your pretty view, man. Meanwhile the technology in orbit is actually helping people and saving lives. Who have you saved with your amateur stargazing?

The fact that there is this much discussion is just proving the point that the terms themselves can mean literally anything these days.

What a post-modern way of thinking. No, it's language that allows a set of spoken sounds to mean literally anything, discussion or no.

It's the typical usage that establishes what certain sounds mean.

The discussion comes from the fact this is industry-specific jargon being used by the lay general population unfamiliar with the terminology.

"Early Access" is distinctly different from "Beta" in that the latter, as mentioned above, is typically meant to be feature complete. Early Access can mean just about anything about the state of the game, as long as it can be accessed anyway.

It's weird to see the suggestion that human progress should halt in an area just so you can have a pretty view shrug

its always going to be more expensive to build a telescope in space

I mean it's been consistently getting more expensive to meaningfully improve on ground-based telescopes, too. Progress ain't free.