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Haha, literally few days after my country invested like 1 billion into it.

Lol

Hmm, I guess this makes sense. I wonder if some kind of crawler with higher legs could work, so you keep the advantage of crawly legs and stability, while also keeping the proportions.

I don't get why they have to be humanoid. Like, don't we have a lot better (and more stable) ways how to make a robot that can easily move around?

If I had a project as succesfull as this, I'd definitely try to sneak in minor inconveniences like renaming parameters just to screw with them.

What the fuck.

It may seem like a good idea, but it's still wrong if you really think about it. Just take a look at how this sounds:

It would not be discrimination if they just allowed all drivers and riders to choose the specific race designation they want to work with. I.e. allow whatever race riders to choose whatever race drivers they accept and vice versa. Most won’t use it and those that do will have a reason to do so. Maybe black drivers don’t want white riders to avoid even the possibility of accusations, [and some white riders won't feel safe with a black driver]?

Would that be OK?

Aren't neural networks AI by definition, if we take the academic definition into account?

I know that thermostat is an AI, because it reacts to a stimuli (current temperature) and makes an action (starts heating) basted on it's state. Which is the formal AI definition.

Wait. That actually means transformers are not AI by definition. Hmm, I need to look into it some more.

EDIT: I was confusing things, that's the definition of AI Agent. I'll go research the AI definition some more :D

You're right, I used a wrong word there. It wasn't science, more like public perception maybe? I'd consider lack of research as a part of science, though.

I'm not sure what better word would fit there instead. I wouldn't say it's the fault of marketing, I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt that they thought it's actually healthier to use this kind of filter.

The comparison that sparks to my mind are vapes. There's AFAIK lack of research that can tell us anything about long term issues, but a lot of people consider it as healthier. But in this case, common sense is also not correct - because it kind of makes sense that it probably isn't, and it's just marketing.

But in the case of an asbestos filter, I can see why people (and common sense at the time) would asume that it helps.

So, I guess common sense is the word that I should've used, because that's what was wrong at the time.

While I get where are you comming from, and I'm also not fan of smoking, isn't asbestos extremely worse?

I remember my friend had a roof over his summer house that was using asbestos, and it was extreme problem. Like, you can't even take it down without investing heavily into protection, or hiring a company that specializes in it's diasposal, because it's just that much toxic to handle.

My favorite asbestos trivia, which I learned only recently, is that at the start of public realozing that smoking causes cancer, one company came up with the solution of "cigaretes with asbestos filters".

It's kind of morbidly funny reminder how catastrophically wrong can current science be.

True, but the point was mostly that in this case, it's extremely apparent that there were 0 QA checks before they released it or they simply don't care. As someone who worked in QA, I can imagine them missing a lot of bugs that are happening on Remix or the main game, because they could require some obscure combination of finished past quests and an account state that can be hard/impossible to properly test for all cases, while also having millions of players, so some may encounter it.

But in the case of a major class campaign quest being impossible with 100% repro rate, because it needs items that are not even in the Remix, that's inexcusable. It's also easy to fix, and should be marked as critical because it's a progress blocker. The only conclusion is that they either didn't know about it, or just don't care becuase they know that the community will just suck it up. It shows extreme disrespect for the players. Hell, when Remix released, you couldn't even finish the first quest and if you tried re-logging, it didn't let you login. It was extremely broken to the point of being unplayable for the first two days.

I've had similar experiences even in retail. Just getting through the main campaign of last patch required re-logging to unstuck a quest 4 times (which I specifically counted), not to mention the desyncs.

I could understand something like this if it was a developer that doesn't have the resources, but Blizzard has and had in the past, but they decided to reduce quality just so they can increase their (already astronomical) profits.

Hmm, you are right, replacing gender with race does make a good point I didn't realize. "I want to be able to choose a white driver because I wouldn't feel safe with a driver of different race" is basically the same point as with gender, but sounds way more wrong and it shows pretty well why is the whole idea a bad one.

At least I'm struggling to find any arguments for the gender version (which is not a bad thing, mind you), if I take this race example into account. You are right that way more rigorous screening of drivers with 0-strike policy would be a lot better than this.

In general this might work for a lot of similar situations, treating gender as a race. I'll keep that in mind, because it makes sense and I never really though about it that way. Thanks!