The AI dooooooom thread

[The Minsky Moment]

Haha, racist jokes!

Accusations like that will get me into a warring state.

[Valmy]

I was assuming that instead of spending money on physical toys they spend it on digital "content" (skins, in game currencies, apps, games etc.).

But I know what they say about assuming - it makes and ass of u and ming.

Yeah I guess she would like a few Robux sent her way but its not quite the same as me deserately wanting the Millenium Falcon for Christmas 1982.

[Syt]

Yeah I guess she would like a few Robux sent her way but its not quite the same as me deserately wanting the Millenium Falcon for Christmas 1982.

Yes, it's a lot more ephemeral. Which may be good for the environment (bad for collectors), but then again I think there's something to physical keepsakes. ... But thinking hard, I'm trying to figure out what my oldest physical possession is. Probably a book ... I'd guess Berlin Alexanderplatz which I had to buy for German class ca. 1993?

[Josquius]

It is very sad that kids these days will never know the wonder of getting a new computer game, reading the manual on the way home, and so on.

[HVC]

It is very sad that kids these days will never know the wonder of getting a new computer game, reading the manual on the way home, and so on.

So many dead trees so little time.

[garbon]

Why is that sad? I had a superstition as a child that every time I read the manual before loading up a game, that would be when it would be a game that would fail to work.