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dillekant
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Graceful degradation is a sub field of resilience engineering - designing systems for resilience. Resilience necessarily reduces efficiency. It was observed during Covid for example that our logistics systems were organised around efficiency as opposed to resilience.
Planned obsolescence, or its engineering term: design life, is also geared towards efficiency.
It's important to note that neither is in itself a bad thing, we have to design around need. Spending effort on resilience only for the user to throw it away is a massive waste, for example.
Solarpunk is a Science Fiction genre. I don't think the Hippie movement was a sci-fi genre?
It's all right dude just think solarpunk thoughts. We are going to be ok.
Google enshittification.
All the stuff you talk about is either hard sci-fi, or an inch away from hard sci-fi. A car that is efficient and makes a vroom vroom noise is not hard sci-fi. It's fantasy.
it’s not like 20 eddies a litre would be cost prohibitive anyway? You drop 10-15k on implants all the time.
This part is a fair point, you are incredibly consequential in the world, but that kind of adds to the idea that a car is not something everyday people can afford.
so perhaps the AI will have to be tuned down based on the hardware they run on…
Yes, similar to Raytracing which still needs a traditional pipeline, with AI you will have "enhanced" (Neural Nets) and "basic" (if statements).
what is the benefit over just using classical algorithms
Utilisation. A CPU isn't really built for deep AI code, so it can't really do realistic AI given the frame budget of doing other things. This is famously why games have bad AI. Training AI via AI algorithms could make the NPCs more realistic or smarter, and you could do this within reasonable frame budgets.
Upvoting. Thanks for understanding my premise. Firstly, there are a lot of cars in the game, and you can still carjack, and the requisite physics must exist. You are a cop, so obviously cop chases don't make sense, but an enormous amount of time and effort was put into driving given it's got nothing to do with the game.
I used to be on dalnet's metal channel. Guessing there are active channels somewhere. Now I actually use my work slack.
My broader point is that you need a community, not a tool.