And if you’re having that much trouble with regular software, imagine how it would go with a model, which even capable programmers don’t (always) fully understand…

Anyone who has ever touched their software knows how this will go…

Infinite growth meets finite world.

Cognitive Artificial Technogy

It does not. But it means they are trying to limit the damage caused by griefers, and moreso than just displaying a popup message with “please don’t grief openstreetmaps” or something. Imagine how bad it would be if changes to openstreetmaps actually were immediately imported into the game…

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Why does every article fail to mention that the ingame map only updates once every 3 years or so? And that this griefing is most likely done once per person, until they find out that the game isn’t updated? (Because it’s not sensational)

You can always just say no, since the condition is “always say no”.

I wish I thought of this before getting rid of the phone…

I, and a friend of mine also experienced this. I believe it started after the “final” update, but there’s no way to know. Needless to say i won’t ever buy, or recommend, a google device ever again.