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  • jwiggler@sh.itjust.workstoGames@lemmy.world•Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5English
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    5 days ago

    Honestly i felt the giddiness that DF did in that first video. It was exciting not just because it did look like a huge upgrade to realism – but because this is another pandoras box moment for genAI. Exciting in a holy shit way, not a “I can’t wait” way. Also, I believed it when they said it was just changing the lighting. Looking at the Grace model more, along with peoples comments, there has to be more than lighting going on here. and with Jensens comments, I think that seems clearer.

    He really is pushing the slop angle, and, well – me too I agree with you. I’ve soured on the whole idea. I think there’s been too much backlash toward DF though.

  • jwiggler@sh.itjust.workstoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•ArrgghhhEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Plus, the whole thing is about putting your money in some place where it will passively gain value, so that when you retire you will have compounded wealth. Well – that whole system seems to be faltering in its own right. I mean, the stock market is not rational, that is pretty evident at the moment.

    You’re telling me you want me to forego part of my paycheck each month in favor of a tiny piece of ownership of a cross section of companies – which I can only claim the actual liquid value without strict penalty until after I’m 67 – and the value of which is highly dependent on the irrational fears and hopes of other people? and, if not that, upon how well that cross section of corporations extract wealth from the rest of the population? that that money is almost guaranteed to grow is part of the whole issue of the requirement of capitalism to achieve infinite growth year after year – and if it does grow? – where the hell does that money come from? Less and less from transformation of materials into value, and the exchange of that value for money. Less and less from the rendering of a service and the exchange of money for that service. More and more from the enclosure of resources (perhaps including the up front, one-time transformation of materials into those resources, and continued maintenance) and the extraction of rents for use (see: the current state of computing and data storage).

    There’ve got to be losers here. If my future wealth is going to be based on a bunch of economic losers having near nothing when they reach the same age, wtf is the point? what is the point if I have wealth and my neighbor has nothing.

    If my own future wealth is dependent on me owning a piece of an entity that pays a worker a fraction of the value of their labor – that makes its profit purely on that distinction – I think I probably ought to avoid that whole system altogether out of simple solidarity.

    Edit: this is a rant.

    Edit2: Oh yeah and thats all not to mention these companies I’d be vesting in are quickly destroying the global ecosystem

  • jwiggler@sh.itjust.workstoA Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Rent is theftEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I do not believe that which was created through collective labor should be able to be enclosed, so that the encloser can extort others for access.

    The house was not built by its owner. It was erected, decorated, and furnished by innumerable workers–in the timber yard, the brick field, and the workshop, toiling for dear life at a minimum wage.

    The money spent by the owner was not the product of his own toil. It was amassed, like all other riches, by paying the workers two-thirds or only a half of what was their due.

    Moreover–and it is here that the enormity of the whole proceeding becomes most glaring–the house owes its actual value to the profit which the owner can make out of it. Now, this profit results from the fact that his house is built in a town possessing bridges, quays, and fine public buildings, and affording to its inhabitants a thousand comforts and conveniences unknown in villages; a town well paved, lighted with gas, in regular communication with other towns, and itself a centre of industry, commerce, science, and art; a town which the work of twenty or thirty generations has gone to render habitable, healthy, and beautiful.

    A house in certain parts of Paris may be valued at thousands of pounds sterling, not because thousands of pounds’ worth of labour have been expended on that particular house, but because it is in Paris; because for centuries workmen, artists, thinkers, and men of learning and letters have contributed to make Paris what it is to-day–a centre of industry, commerce, politics, art, and science; because Paris has a past; because, thanks to literature, the names of its streets are household words in foreign countries as well as at home; because it is the fruit of eighteen centuries of toil, the work of fifty generations of the whole French nation.

    Who, then, can appropriate to himself the tiniest plot of ground, or the meanest building, without committing a flagrant injustice? Who, then, has the right to sell to any bidder the smallest portion of the common heritage?

    Kropotkin