TF2 has over 30,000 active players right now though..

https://steamdb.info/app/440/charts/

Not like it ever stopped the crypto industry before, if we're being honest

Never expected to see the Critical Drinker mentioned on HN. I find myself agreeing with the majority of points he brings up in his videos, but I suspect the majority on HN would disagree with him.

I'll be curious to see if others chime in.

This was my first thought upon seeing the OP as well. I haven't been to a theater in years, and part of the problem is I don't know what I'd go there to watch.

I've been pretty explicitly told that Hollywood does not want to sell to me or my demographic by this point, and it's also pretty evident in the media that is being produced.

And the media I do consume, I don't really feel a need to see in theaters.

I feel bad, because I have many fond memories of going to the theater as a kid with my parents. With the way things are going, they may be long gone before I ever get a chance to replicate that experience for a family of my own.

> Never expected to see the Critical Drinker mentioned on HN. I find myself agreeing with the majority of points he brings up in his videos, but I suspect the majority on HN would disagree with him.

Sadly you're right. At times like this I wish Silicon Valley was in Texas or Florida rather than one of the most leftwing / collectivist states in America.

Doesn't seem ironic at all, when the website (as nearly all are) is fundamentally dependent on a technical stack invented by the United States government to be accessed.

The claim is not just dependency, but a failure to innovate at all.

This has always been the case all throughout modern history though

The elites always want cheaper labor, while the existing domestic workforce usually opposes such measures (as it obviously devalues their labor)

How does someone being incentivized to sell a vulnerability to a private organization over disclosing it publicly preserve a "high trust society"? Do you mean in the context of a "deceptively high-trust society"?

Those private actors aren't planning to sit around and hold onto these exploits they've horded forevermore, they're obviously paying for them so they can one day use them.

Funnily enough, most of the young people I know fall somewhere between those two sides of the spectrum.

I know some actual luddite-tier AI haters that believe it's ontologically evil, and another majoring in Data Science that went to the most recent career fair and told a recruiter "AI will replace you" (I uh don't think he's getting that internship)

And of course many, many, others that fall between the two extremes.

The one thing we can all agree on, is it makes homework a hell of a lot easier :) (well, except the luddite-types, they refuse to use it in any capacity)

I'm a member of a political action committee, where I was brought in as an expert in professional media applications of AI. I've got extensive experience using AI tools in the production of well known entertainment properties (think VFX for film and animation.) Anyway, within the political action committee where is a diverse mixture of people, with about 1/5th of them under age 30. The entire under age 30 set are so AI negative, to such an irrational degree, I have been asked to do nothing and offer no advice that incorporates any technology at all. They are so paranoid. In a not really emotional discussion, a bunch of them erupted in tears, they are so irrational about it.

Are you able to share whether the PAC was Democratic Party or Republican Party aligned? When I first came to America, the headlines were about how Obama’s campaign embraced tech successfully. By now, tech is considered right-wing. If the young ‘uns who burst into tears were on a Republican aligned PAC that would be interesting. It would mean cross-political tech angst.

Democratic Party.

The biggest irony with telling a recruiter they'll be replaced, is how much easier a data scientist is to replace with LLMs. With their sycophantic nature, execs will eat up whatever "data" the LLMs make up, too.

No, you don't understand. LLMs will never be capable of knowing what questions to ask, only how to ask the questions. /s

haha true, though I don't think that's what GP meant

> you're much better off browsing r/fanfiction.

The punchline is buried a little bit too deep, but pretty sure they're just playing along.

I thought "when they made the decision to include human adult content in addition to fan-related content" in the first sentence was already pretty obvious

Lol you mean until two years from now, when tides will inevitably shift?

The so-called "Zion-don" won't be in office forever, despite what he seems to believe.

Look at the polling. The current U.S. stance on Iran and Israel is extremely unpopular. It's only a matter of time before a natural course correction occurs, and the voters' voice is heard, whether at the upcoming midterms or the next presidential election.

And let me tell you, if you think HN is bad, you better not check Zoomer social media.

Damn Tenor's run by Google? I was always afraid this day would come. Guess its time to be relegated to the awfulness that is Giphy for the built-in GIF picker in applications.