My fellow Turks are moving away from Twitter to Bluesky in response to Twitter banning of opposition accounts.

Feels like bigger migration than progressives upon Elon's purchase. Couldn't have been prouder.

Let's just move GDC to Turkey.

Geographic "middle" of the world. Way more affordable. Great seaside resort options for a large conference. No visa issues for anyone. Affordabie flights. Will be an added flight cost for people in North America but they can afford it!

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Monday I'll teach history of neural nets in my class.

Revelations (1943): Hebbian theory and mathematical neuron.
Reloaded (1982): Rumelhart coins ANNs and invents backprop.
Resurrections (2012): AlexNET wins ImageNET.
Revolutions (2022): ChatGPT release.

Will my genZ students get the reference?

It's relatively easy for democracies to succumb into authoritarian hands.

It's not as easy to build a democracy out of an autocrat regime.

External intervention used to be a correction mechanism but not the case anymore with nuclear deterrence.

The world will slowly shift to authoritarianism.

Here is an opinion rather unpopular in art/gamedev circles.

Unrestricted AI model training does not infringe copyright, is ethical.

Almost 8 years thinking about AI ethics, I welcome anyone to constructively discuss this rather than the knee jerk Twitter style arguments I'm getting tired of.

If you are THIS closed to civil discussion about a point you make, with someone whose job is to think about your point, you have no attitude difference than MAGA people.

All the societal discourse exists to confirm your preexisting beliefs and interests, or go in the trash.

Prediction: Video-trained ML will never meet consistency demands of games, regardless the rate of innovation in approaching consistency.

A better, hybrid solution would have been real-time "skinning" of greybox game renders still made in-engine but with extremely cheap assets.