I think OP doesn’t even know what their point is.

They keep saying people will continue to perform sex work if there’s no economic gain, but at that point it’s not work. Then the counter argument to that is “there’s many different kinds of sex work”, but the point still stands that having sex voluntarily, being an exhibitionist, or having a hobby of filming sexual encounters are all things that people do for personal gratification and are not considered a career now, or in this hypothetical post-scarcity civilisation.

Like someone else said, it sounds like they are just fantasising about sex slaves. To me it also sounds like OP is overcompensating on the whole “I respect sex workers” virtue signalling.

Give everyone a gun and suddenly it gets easier to murder people. Imagine if you gave everyone a button to launch the nukes, how long before the human race eradicated itself?

“many moons ago, when the sun was low in the sky…”

We call eastern coast time AEST

Then I assume you’ve done the rounds on Stargate and Farscape?

That’s normal and expected. What’s sad is that there are countries with governments who don’t tell companies not to be shitty.

Running from Monster-Ock while the facility is exploding around you. That game was such a banger. And it’s short length is made up for by it’s replayability. Collecting all the comics and suits. Amazing.

But are we talking a fight before one side backs down? Or a fight to the death?

Then you need a more powerful PC. What do you mean a more powerful monitor? I don’t even understand what that means.

What do you mean “powerful monitor”. It just needs to display a picture.

Get into gate is another good one

Are you thinking of the 1998 American Godzilla film?

No. You’re doing the math wrong.

You make 2 movies that cost $80m each, you have spent $160m. One of them gets shelved and makes no money, one of them makes $120m. You are still at a $40m loss. You haven’t made any money to pay tax on at all. You have only lost money.

You are approaching this with the preconceived notion that is some kind of scam, which it’s not.

The only benefit to shelving the first movie is if you think it’ll cost more money to finish, market, and release it than money it will bring in. They are cutting their losses, not magically generating money out of thin air.

I get what you mean, and I think a lot of laymen do have these unreasonable ideas about what LLMs are capable of, but as a counter point we have used the label AI to refer to very simple bits of code for decades eg video game characters.

Haven’t we started using AGI, or artificial general intelligence, as the term to describe the kind of AI you are referring to? That self aware intelligent software?

Now AI just means reactive coding designed to mimic certain behaviours, or even self learning algorithms.

Drove a Kia once and it was the same. Up went back a track, down went forwards. Opposite of my intuition.

When I saw that film I remember thinking how outlandish it was for her to order pizza on the internet. Even if somehow that were possible, how could you just give a stranger your credit card details!? So, what, you pay a stranger and just hope your pizza arrives? Completely unbelievable.

Neat. I’ll check out the video when I get the chance.

So, basically an Archimedes Screw.