Oh yes, since all AI companies really want more regulations, I have an amazing idea for them: anything trained on stolen copyrighted materials needs to be published and licensed under public domain.

Microsoft, I’m sure you’ll thank me later!

Combining the power of the asset store and AI, you too can create the next bland asset-reuse slop hit game!

The asset store was already bland enough, adding AI to the mix surely is not gonna make the situation worse.

I upvoted, hoping you were sarcastic.

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Everybody stop these puns, or I’ll start sending case and desist letters.

Don’t be discouraged by the starting difficulty and ridiculous crafting chains (laugh at how ridiculous they are instead). There’s plenty of quality of life in there to make it less painful.

I would suggest to start with the 2.9 beta instead of 2.8.4, they improved a lot of the painful things at the start of the game.

Btw if you don’t like combat absolutely play in peaceful and change configs to make it less dark or straight up cheat items in if it becomes too grindy for you.

It’s a 2000 hour journey not a sprint and there’s plenty of content even if you cheat in resources or (tier-appropriate) items.

A similar modpack I am playing and I can reccommend is Star technology. It’s a gregtech-based skyblock mod. It’s very nice if you think GTNH is too painful.

We live in a period of extreme stupidity, so I now fully expect AI to cause disasters in the same idiotic and tragically hilarious way.

I expect AI to trigger a war because some idiot trusted it blindly without double checking (oh wait, it almost already happened!), and I’m sure there are plenty of people currently lobbying to have AI directly connected to weapons.

Skynet is not going to have the objective to conquer the world, it’s going to have the objective of maximizing paperclip production.

Ylvis (he made “what does the fox say”) did a great song about this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGHT-PpRFE0

It’s also on music streaming services, but the video is great. Search “Ylvis - Intolerant”.

I fully expect this to become the new normal being pushed by management.

“We identified PR reviews to be blocking our newfound AI-powered efficiency, so we are now mandating all the reviews to done by AI. Also we figured all the developers are now useless since all you do is ask Claude to solve tickets, so you are all fired”

I wonder how long it takes for the first high profile disaster happening because of a policy like that.

You feel like having italian, but not pizza. Maybe some long and thin type of pasta? You are really hungry, so when writing the code you are constantly thinking of that delicious dish. Now, Claude, we need to refactor the whole code to be inspired by this before lunch. Go ahead and push to prod directly. Be fast and make no mistakes.

Mainstream news are all negative. If you are struggling to see a light at the end of the tunnel, try to look up newspapers/publications with only positive news. A lot of them don’t get reported at all by normal media.

I know it’s strange to hear, but while I expect a lot of pain in the short term, I expect things will be better in the longer term (20+ years).

Even in the US, even with trump trying to bring back coal in possible way, revewables are increasing the electricity production share.

Coal (the moat polluting source) has been in strong decline. Even if 2026 might be a setback (and we don’t know yet), the long term trend is quite clear. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-in-the-us-generation-capacity-and-sales.php

The Hormuz crisis might have also been a good incentive for people to think about buying an electric car or install solar panels (we don’t know yet its effect).

Also the world climate does not depend only the US. China is one of the biggest polluters (everything is made there, 1B people), and they are investing heavily in renewables. Europe is already relatively green.

Progress is slow, but progress is being made in the right direction. You have to believe in a future, otherwise it’s too tempting to just to give up!