Ah yes showing his progressive roots there. Standing up for the biggest minority, the rich.

Anyway, think making sure we know the actual value of things might help with a lot of stock market bs.

Also think most people know what the value is of their furniture at least on some level, for insurance purposes at least. This feels a bit Jensen talking about how he doesnt know his own adress.

They put back an email based 2fa thing again if you login but no authenticator. (And for any people who had leaked passwords they had reused, I think they might have lost their accounts already).

They also in a brilliant move messed up the database transfer, you cannot remove your payment data without first giving them your address again. But, this also has another consequence, you cannot pay for things without updating this information. This means anybody who doesn’t do this for their monthly subscription service will be automatically cancelled (or they break their tax declarations). And this also means that they will have a leftover stock of those monthly keys for next month (and perhaps the one after), I assume a lot of people will also cancel and this will also cause them to have an additional unused stock. (they don’t just get a key on demand, nor can they use the ones from the store for some reason (I have keys in ‘sorry we will get more soon’ hell which they still sold on the store, it is really weird).

I doubt this will stop any hackers however, as they can just input any random address and then grab some keys for resale (or grab any keys which were not claimed yet, I so far had 40 I had not used which I now have).

What an amazing mess.

Edit: Just saw another thing. If you are an active choice member you get a store discount, you can allocate part of that discount to go to charity. Or well, you could. It set mine to 0% charity and there is no option to change it.

They did however fix some small things, like ‘new releases’ no longer shows games from 2022, ‘preorder’ no longer has games from 2018. (Wait, it still has “days gone”, released in 2021).

I like how as this doesn’t mean anything to me as a non-WoW player every time I post this somebody goes ‘ah yes of course he was a warlock’. Makes me feel like I hit a deeper truth by accident.

Yeah it is interesting how much the LW space recreates these sorts of ideas from first principles, the combination of overfocus on math, disdain for non-lw experts, disdain for softer sciences, insider hero worship, and contrarianism creates a perfect cult incubator.

All the advertising being for AI stuff us a nice touch.

I never was into WoW but a buddy of mine was, and his reaction to the Buterin story was ‘of course he played a warlock, and that class was overpowered and should have been nerfed, it was as powerful as two other classes combined, and it had not gotten nerfs earlier because so many devs were warlocks’.

When you are accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.

I have a different hear me out btw, compared to a Musk or Moldbug, I think Jensen pulled off the jacket.

Yeah, I have also been amazed. Like there is so much wrong. (love the 2022 and earlier games on the ‘new releases’ page for example).

Think that would just drive them to incel style rhetoric. With a helping of ‘no you are right to worry, but it doesn’t look like your penis has shrunk sir’ from the bots. (poor third world workers who then have to process that shit. “why are all these people suddenly uploading their penis in grok?”).

Sorry I have to vent, but looks like the humblebundle site did an AI powered redesign as the site (while looking like it works) is now a total mess. I’m a bit in slow motion trainwreck watching mode. Sucks I do have a list of unclaimed keys still at the site which I paid for (some of which are now gone, as in I know I still had a key as I kept a list of some of the keys in a file (I was worried something like this happening for a while) but the keys are no longer in the list of games I got, this is just one of the many many bugs or just plain weird things I noticed (The reddit is filled with people having a lot more complaints, somebody bought a ‘4 for 1, play with your friends’ pack, and only got one key, if you made a ‘gift a key link’ yday the link now is dead, but the game counts as claimed, etc etc).

The UI does have nice rounded corners now however.

E: additional funny moment, so I know people who have subscribed to humble choice (a monthly thing) an basically have forgotten about it, but during the creation of the new site they messed something up and they no longer have the information on file to complete the transaction for that, so a lot of subscriptions will likely auto cancel, what a foot shot).

E2: It also removed 2FA, made it possible to change passwords without the old password, and switch emails without access to the old email. Amazing work.

Lets hope his ex-wife goes the MacKenzie Scott route and starts giving away a lot of the money to charitable causes.

(I heard even with all the charity her net worth still increased, holy shit the deck is stacked against poor people).

Nevermind my suggestion, of course they also use AI shit now.

If AI will not come closer to AGI, the definition of AGI will come closer to AI.

I was send this picture and thought some of you would get a laugh out of it.

Sure seems that AI usage more and more has the stink of ‘you can trust people who use this at all’.

Unrelated to that this is also very odd:

Then, we were able to speak directly to an engineer at Unity, who asked around and ultimately concluded that what we wanted wasn’t possible.

Broke: “it is AGI when it makes A BILLION DOLLARS”

Woke: “it is AGI when it does a ted talk”

Like how they drifted into a discussion of free will instantly.

The coding stuff is going to be fun, if what I heard about the coding bots having reached their maximum (and ai companies now moving to other fields to build specialized models for (which fits my prediction that they wouldn’t build AGI and all the ‘gains’ would be more and more unwieldy specializes modules/models. Like the ‘correctly count the r’s in strawberry’ one)).

Yeah, coding guides are everywhere (or used to be at least, more and more seem to be shutting down due to declining sales + increased costs due to scraping).

Never saw anybody offer a link to a guide like that.

Hell coding has Become a Programmer, Motherfucker which isn’t just one guide, but an entire list of guides, and it even uses (old but checks out) meme to diversify itself from other people offering the same.

(I checked, the guy, despite still being on twitter, is still doing his thing trying to help people to learn how to code, his stance on AI wasn’t totally clear after a short glance, he is however a gamer angry about bad UI implementations (I can totally relate)).

Good point, had not thought about that. And that makes, in a way stuff even worse, as when it goes wrong people go all ‘skill issue’ despite the systems being designed and marketed for full cognitive surrender.