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Please don't support militarization of gaming technology on the back of a technology being used to promote surveillance capitalism techniques to track and sell ads to your users. Dual use technology. https://t.co/4Y1UDBCL5R
This is included in the pitch for why investors should invest in Unity as platform."Massive military applications."https://t.co/6CzRoWwTWZIt's why VCs are circle jerking over this space.
There are massive opportunities in this space, and it sickens me to watch how unity's attempt to 'democratize' (read: rent seek upon) game development has tainted the industry via a siren call toward profits.You reap what you sow.https://t.co/Dpd75Xk3zd
I know fully well how impactful games can be do help with simulation and training. Before the pandemic I was putting together my own driving sim based on some studies being done about autism related sensory processing and trouble driving. https://t.co/4j4Je69oDr
The investors see $$$ in their eyes, so they want to creating an economic flywheel to continue development and push toward more and more institutional b2b. They want to make money off of medicine and warfare. https://t.co/LEzzvzU9M2
Your cute little game is just a stepping stone for them to help create a double-sided market, attracting funding toward development of the engines that will ultimately allow them to profit off of medical VR & industrial simulation tech.
The end goal will be using these systems to training an AI by recording behaviors and creating human-in-the-loop simulations. Ender's game style. https://t.co/JH6NJi4GbW
This isn't even a new idea, the entire concept of "expert systems" is an attempt to capture the behavior of experts into something reproducible by a machine. https://t.co/GGlDkTageRIt's a foundation for a modern day Taylorism in sheep's clothing.https://t.co/4p1HKATE1V
Cybernetics of war. You're an unwitting pawn in a system of extraction, your value being funneled toward a larger economic system.https://t.co/Iygx1QtRAW
"Wiener refused, for ethical reasons, to accept research contracts from the military or from corporations seeking to exploit his ideas. Since the military and corporations were the main sources of research support, Wiener’s defiance hindered his progress"https://t.co/INfWVB1jpr
Unity is not your friend. https://t.co/M1j9jb2bTT
How do you do, fellow nerds.https://t.co/lFn8xdholc
Brian Eno's scenius, but it's Norbert Wiener's Network Celebrity being used to engineer a collective steering behavior by resonating ideas from 1950's cybernetics research, tied to the hip with rocketry, engineering a form of weaponized autism. https://t.co/UIQuShw8kA
Haha, Rekthttps://t.co/BykevJJsU8
“They’re acting like a monopoly, leveraging monopoly pricing power, and I wanted to show as clearly as I personally could that they aren’t one.” https://t.co/59GpY5Q2gL
"The trust is gone."https://t.co/bPK7hJQNtG
Youtube Recommended this Review video.Talks about Unity's investor driven shift into just being an ad platform. https://t.co/iA3ZksoKUc
Hilarious."Canceling the Runtime Fee for games and instituting these pricing changes will allow us to continue investing to improve game development for everyone while also being better partners."https://t.co/ornFoGtVJN