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Maybe if they build a few more data centers, they'll be able to construct their machine god. Just a few more dedicated power plants, a lake or two, a few hundred billion more and they'll crack this thing wide open.

And maybe Tesla is going to deliver truly full self driving tech any day now.

And Star Citizen will prove to have been worth it along along, and Bitcoin will rain from the heavens.

It's very difficult to remain charitable when people seem to always be chasing the new iteration of the same old thing, and we're expected to come along for the ride.

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You have it all wrong. The end game is a scalable, reliable AI work force capable of finishing Star Citizen.

At least this is the benchmark for super-human general intelligence that I propose.

Man I can't believe that fucking game is still alive and kicking. Tell me they're making good progress, sho_hn

I’m surprised ‘create superhuman agi’ isn’t a stretch goal on their everlasting funding drive. Seems like a perfect Robertsian detour.

> And Star Citizen will prove to have been worth it along along

Once they've implemented saccades in the eyeballs of the characters wearing helmets in spaceship millions of kilometres apart, then it will all have been worth it.

Star Citizen is a working model of how to do UBI. That entire staff of a thousand people is the test case.

Finally, someone gets it.

  And Star Citizen will prove to have been worth it along along

Sounds like someone isn't happy with the 4.0 eternally incrementing "alpha" version release. :-D

I keep checking in on SC every 6 months or so and still see the same old bugs. What a waste of potential. Fortunately, Elite Dangerous is enough of a space game to scratch my space game itch.

To be fAir, SC is trying to do things that no one else done in a context of a single game. I applaud their dedication, but I won't be buying JPGs of a ship for 2k.

Yeah, they never should have expected to take an FPS game engine like CryEngine and expected to be able to modify it to work as the basis for a large scale space MMO game.

Their backend is probably an async nightmare of replicated state that gets corrupted over time. Would explain why a lot of things seem to work more or less bug free after an update and then things fall to pieces and the same old bugs start showing up after a few weeks.

And to be clear, I've spent money on SC and I've played enough hours goofing off with friends to have got my money's worth out of it. I'm just really bummed out about the whole thing.

Gonna go meta here for a bit, but I believe we going to get a fully working stable SC before we get fusion. "we" as in humanity, you and I might not be around when it's finally done.

Give the same amount of money to a better team and you'd get a better (finished) game. So the allocation of capital is wrong in this case. People shouldn't pre-order stuff.

The misallocation of capital also applies to GPT-4.5/OpenAI at this point.

Yeah, I wonder what the Frontier devs could have done with $500M USD. More than $500M USD and 12+ years of development and the game is still in such a sorry state it barely qualifies as little more than a tech demo.

It's an honor to be dragged along so many ubermensch's Incredible Journeys.

Could this path lead to solving world hunger too? :)

Correction: We're expected to pay for the ride, whether we choose to come along or not.

leave star citizen out of this :)

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