“I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off.”
It’s a real jack of all trades, instead of moving media from package to package, such as animating something in Maya and combining with a camera track in After Effects, you can do it all in Blender.
With the recent Eevee real time renderer you get a common material pipeline with Cycles.
Add the exceptional 2D animation tools, and rapid improvements in sculpting and the speed increases of CyclesX to the mix and you’ve got one of the most capable pieces of software going.
I disagree it's too simplistic. It's a logical fallacy that we wouldn't be advocating for in any other context than our treatment of non-human animals.
It's also just a disingenuous argument. If our actual concern were the welfare and lives of animals in the wild, we would be capturing and caring for those individuals - not breeding new ones into existence.
This is a common feature of critiques of Schopenhaur; Philipp Mainländer advanced the position that God created the universe to end its atemporal suffering, exploding and binding itself temporally in order that its suffering should eventually cease.
It's frustrating that your article brushes off the philosophy as "unimaginably wrong" so easily with some hand wave of techno-utopian "genetic engineering". Benatar's writing takes pains to address why the situation cannot fundamentally be solved, especially via naive scientism.
That sort of implies trying to blow up the universe wouldn't be a fruitless effort in and of itself. You'd have better luck just waiting for the heat death of the universe at that point I think.
The same reason that it's good to have different clients for other protocols. Some clients lean heavily to one side on the CLI vs GUI vs VR debate, some choose to have convenience over technical complexity and so make choices that other Gemini users would disagree with, some allow a degree of automation, some are a multi-protocol client that has Gemini as just one supported option.
It's a shame it can't add on any innovations that didn't make the cut to the current web, such as Ted Nelsons parallel documents.
Seems like any interest in making technology more than a replica of reality has disappeared. Maybe its even going the opposite direction, that what we have in reality is too complicated to recreate so the digital becomes more constrictive than the real thing.
We need a foothold first. The Web 3.0 (4.0?) took all the oxygen out of the room for Web+ technologies, so we first need a healthier ecosystem in which to frame the discussion.
