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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • To me, it is the loss of meaningful work.

    Alot of people have complained “why take arts and coders jobs - make AI take the drudgery filled work first and leave us the art and writing!” The problem is: automation already came for those jobs. In 90% of jobs today, the job CAN be automated with no AI needed. It just costs more to automate it then to pay a minimum wage worker. Than means anyone who works those jobs isn’t ACTUALLY doing those jobs. They are instead saving their employer the difference between their pay and the amount needed to automate it.

    Before genAI came, there were a few jobs that couldn’t be automated. Those people thought that they not only have job security, but they were the only people actually producing things worth value. They were the ones that weren’t just saving a boss a buck. Then genAI came. Why write a book, code a program, or paint a painting if some program can do the same? Oh, it is better? More authentic? It is surprising how much of the population doesn’t care. And AI is getting better - poisoned training and loss of their users critical thinking skills not withstanding.

    Soon, the only thing proud a worker can be about their work is how much they saved their employers money; and for most people that isn’t meaning enough. Somethings got to change.







  • I feel like in a post-global pandemic world, where we have AIs that can pass the Turing test, VR world’s where we can do global virtual raves, and if one cobbles enough cutting edge tech together one can say “earl Grey, hot” and a 3d printer can print up a model of a tea cup… I think scifi writers have to come up with what is NEXT.

    No more “Oh this logical robot which can either be a metaphor for autism or enslaved people want to be free and human”. Give us projections on our current technology and social evolution. Shows set in the year 2200 shouldn’t just be dealing with the emergence of AI and still have only straight nuclear families.


  • Authentication for my work email: Enter 28 character password, receive sms, enter message, log in

    Authentication for my Battle.net account:

    -Enter email made before 2000 because they don’t let you change email

    -Enter password

    -Get rejected

    -Solve CAPTCHA

    -Try backup passwords, get rejected

    -Request new password

    -Send request to 24 year old email

    -Try to log on to 24 year old email, email is suspicious and sends Authentication request to my newer email

    -Open newer email, Authenticate older email

    -open old email, Put in code to battle.net

    -Battle.net requests Authenticator code from Battle.net app

    -Open battle.net app (no requests)

    -Try manual code, doesn’t work

    • Realize Battle.net app Authenticator not connected

    -Try to connect Battle.net app Authenticator to account

    -Realize you cannot connect Authenticator without signing in AND signing in requires Authenticator

    -Close Battle.net app

    -Open Blizzard Authenticator

    -Close warning that this app got depreciated in January

    -Enter manual code

    -it works

    -Attempt to change password to password I first attempted

    -Won’t let me use same password

    -Try logging in using that password

    -Still doesn’t work - Solve one more CAPTCHA

    -Change password to backup password and back to original password - have to solve 2 more Captchas

    -Finally works

    -Log in