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Did… you downvote yourself?

Eh… everyone has different reasons, and I’m sure there’s a healthy diversity of types involved in this shit.

What the heck is a rental family?

I saw a really interesting Ted Talk from a Google engineer waaaaaaay back in or before 2012 (I think), discussing the emerging danger of algorithms isolating people in echo chambers.

Apparently the problem we’ve got right now is not that people can’t foresee these problems, but rather that those in charge, for whatever reason, are completely ignoring the warnings from their own engineers.

Can you give concrete examples?

Sure! You know those concrete pads with metal boxes on them outside of most buildings? Most of your data probably runs through something like that, which is entirely owned and operated by complete strangers to you, who could very easily be recording a copy of all the data which passes through the physical machines they own and operate.

Everything you do online has to run through third parties you know nothing about.

You already do…

Just run them on a machine you don’t care about, if you’re concerned.

That’s the fun part!

Yes, lets ignore real problems in favour of turning them into partisan shouting matches.

It’s worked so well until now.

Worked like a charm! Thanks!

You’re not wrong. I still remember the day I picked up a newspaper and saw the headline “video games earn more than movies for the first time ever,” and I immediately knew where the industry was headed. In retrospect, I was 100% correct.

Weird people were forced out of the industry over the past decade or more, for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with making games.

Where did they add the option? It certainly wasn’t there last time I tried to figure it out, though that was admittedly a long time ago.

On the windows xbox controller, the huge raised button in the middle turns on big picture mode. I’m not aware of any way to disable that button. It’s a huge pain in the ass if you accidentally touch it and get yanked out of whatever you were doing.

Clearly they would rather be consumed by other things instead.

Well we’re going to suffer until enough people do figure it out.

The sad part is that this is a very well known phenomena, yet people become too consumed by everything else to even care about learning of such warnings left behind by long dead civilizations.

Huh, that kind of gets the juices going, and I’m wondering how much we’ve been trying to make our problems fit the technologies we’ve built, rather than the other way around.

Civilization exists because enough people know that we’re better off working together than against each other.

You. Tonight.