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And your anecdote is "not me or people I know of".

When you say the Amiga games industry is "extremely" large and vibrant, what contemporary platform are you comparing it to?

If there is an "extremely large and vibrant" aspect that makes the Amiga stand out, it is the demo scene.

If you're going to be ridiculous why stop there? Why not say the OP is implying all electronics should be banned?

Or are you arguing that no operating system can exist without tracking and sharing all of this data?

What is different in this case is that large companies are very likely looking to replace artists with ai, which is a huge potential impact. Piracy never had such risks

Sorry, I am not really answering the question, but just my 2 cents on the topic. Who cares about saving Commodore? The best thing about the Amiga was that it was years ahead of its time. It played a big part in shaping things to come, especially in Europe, particularly in game development, music, graphic design, and what I'll just call the culture of sharing. Personally I can't imagine who I would be without having the Amiga in my youth - what I would like, how I would perceive the world. As heartbreaking as it was to see it die with a whimper, I wouldn't trade that just to see a Commodore logo on a PC equivalent today. [edit: typo]

What part do you think is highly rational in theory? The concentration of wealth into fewer and fewer hands? The destruction of the renewable natural abundance?

And what's "best possible" supposed to mean? That we have reached the absolute highest form of social organisation? Even if we lived in something much closer to a utopia this would be hard to defend scientifically.

And in case it wasn't clear, I agree 100% with you. There's an amazing generative scene I've been following since the early naughties

I'd prefer 'generative ai' as the common term. It rubs me the wrong way that human artists are 'content creators' while this is supposed to be 'art'