No doubt non technical people have different UX experience than tech nerd, but I have seen plenty of "normal" people curse at artsy fluffy design, that made known navigation skills useless and nobody likes their time wasted.
There are still plenty of religious cults out there if that is your thing, probably more than have ever been. Otherwise the "misfits" are nowdays also organizing themself to indeed fit somewhere and don't just accept to be outcasts.
Sorry, but the whole concept of "place for people who don't fit" - is really not appropriate for monasteries in general. Because they have been very strict about who can fit. Only those who are fine with this special lifestyle and fixed rituals (and fixed hierachy and dogma). And most monks had to adopt to accept, whether they liked it or not, as the alternative was starving.
For better or for worse, 0 chance this happens for the exact same reason Elon/SpaceX is also tied to the US regardless of how goofy the government gets. If they did so, it would almost certainly directly drive criminal prosecution with various national security flavorings on top.
Every single worker and operation would need to be in countries with no extradition treaties, and even then they'd likely be limited to serving the tiny handful of nations that are willing/able to resist US pressure, so pretty much - Russia and China.
Only if generalized. In modern times companies that become entangled in national defense stuff reap tremendous rewards, but in exchange for that they also expose themselves to the government's ability to impose a wide array of rules and emergency actions to control them as necessary.
One practical thing this does is prevent an inversion of authority. Imagine if a major e.g. military industrial complex company told the government 'Hey China's offering us $100 billion to relocate, no strings attached. Can you beat their offer?' In modern times where companies seem to have no ethics or loyalty to anything except to pennies, this isn't even as absurd a scenario as it should be.
Claude and OpenAI screamed as loudly as they could 'ooo we're dangerous, scary scary AI, national security, dooooommmm, AGI - regulate us!' probably in an effort to try to rug pull and build an artificial moat against competition. Well congrats, it seems they have finally gotten the attention of the government. It brings to mind the tale of the Brazen Bull [1], or Reagan's 9 words.
"I do not think this is somehow a 3D chess move by Anthropic"
But it seems likely that they took this possibility into account - and that they now prominently and unremovable show the "Fable not avaiable" (link - government said so) is likely with the intention to make pressure on the US government.
I .. don't get it. (And don't want to sign up to find out) What am I looking at? People raving online? (Or letting their avatars do it) But there are real people mixed in, so those are the real DJ's?
It's ('is/was) amazing! On launch date I've spent good couple of hours there. The execution is magnificent. Realtime rave in minecraft-like world. Somehow this needs business model to keep it actually alive and well.
Ok, trying it out now from my PC. Nice, one can even go into second dancefloors, in a tent (with youtube that I can influence) but there movement could be polished. But I like the idea.
Microtransactions. In a non-joking sense. People pay for outfits or gear to wear to the rave. Or they can work for it in game. Maybe a bit like EVE Online where you can pay monthly to play but if you make enough in-game you can buy a months subscription.
You are the silent majority?
No doubt non technical people have different UX experience than tech nerd, but I have seen plenty of "normal" people curse at artsy fluffy design, that made known navigation skills useless and nobody likes their time wasted.
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