Thoughts

Lots of people these days are talking about how generative AI technology is leading workers to lose skills, bosses to trust chatbots more than their employees, folks at risk to make absurd decisions, etc.

As these models are very capable of providing wrong, yet correct-seeming, answers, this causes people to accept low-quality results and pass them through, as if there’s nothing wrong with them, especially when contrasted with asking questions from other people, who are much more likely to refuse or question one’s request or take way more time to accomplish it properly.

It’s become increasingly clear that in a lot of countries, the right has pretty much abandoned any ambition of still believing in “fairness” or “equality under the law” – perfectly willing to openly enrich themselves and their friends using government powers or declare entire groups of people as lower-class. There is a popular quote by musician Frank Wilhoit that goes:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

Okay, so last month (December of 2025), I saw a few screenshots of PC-98 games and went wondering: “in comparison, why do Western home computer games of the same era (the kind that you’d see on an Amiga or Atari ST) tend to be so ‘meh’-looking?”, in comparison to both console games of the same era and PC games that would come out shortly after games like DOOM would prove the PC was actually a viable mainstream gaming platform?".