I feel this is missing the methodology part where they describe how they evaluated a model that literally can’t do anything but read input and write output for actions like “copy itself over a newer version” or “its own goals”.

Second Life has restaurants or bars though mostly people tend to hangout in less food focused ways and not sure you would count it as a game.

The thing about advertising is that pretty much every bit of data that could tell us if it works or not is produced entirely by the same industry that has an overwhelming incentive to tell us that it does work.

I am not even saying that it never works, more that advertising’s primary purpose is to sell advertising to companies and if that advertising works or not is a distant secondary goal at best as long as those companies have no way to prove it doesn’t.

It very likely works on some types of products while being completely useless on others. And even where it works it very likely has a distribution from extremely bad ads for a given product or service to very effective ones for the same product.

Imagine nonsense content on Instagram…

Isn’t that all Instagram ever was? Out of all the social media platforms it was the one that was essentially fake from the start, just fakes produced by the users.

Well, technically 100% employment wouldn’t be desirable, that would mean nobody can ever switch jobs or take some time off from working to deal with some personal issues or projects.

Isn’t that essentially how that whole scam called advertising works in general?

Mystery boxes are another similar predatory business model that has brought similar predatory practices even to RL.

Nobody at Valve is preventing anyone from making a good alternative. Network effects are what makes one platform better than multiple platforms in this space, especially in the multiplayer match-making and other features where players are interacting.

Honestly, the actual spearheading of microtransactions were physical collectible card game companies with games like MTG.

You are forced to pay either way or do you think hosting (both installers/updates and some sort of multiplayer matchmaking), marketing, payment providers,… all work for free? Without something like Steam you would just likely be forced to pay someone just to manage all of that for you as an extra employee (or multiple part time employees or outsourced services).

Considering their only major competitor has enough money to keep trying to lure players to their significantly worse store system with free games for years now instead of going the route of actually providing a decent product I think Valve making money off their good product strategy is a good thing.

Yes, but you don’t have to memorize the keys.

Well, I am not even talking about the resources used but literally about the fact that you can’t make that many graphics because of the number of combinations of different properties you would have to model somehow.

Plus there are some things you can describe in text that you can never portray graphically, e.g. concepts like “the most beautiful woman he had ever seen”

Most things work via menus, the key bindings just speed things up.

Actually corporations themselves are 99% of what people fear about AGI already in their inhuman decisionmaking to the detriment of humanity.

Open to All Income.

Well, apart from the people like me who thought they had always been one because they acted exactly like one.

As someone who lived with them for the first thirty years or so of my life I am very glad they are gone. I haven’t had to replace a single light in my last ten years since I moved to a home that is all LED while it was a constant thing in my childhood.

People advocating for the 99 shitty technologies that die always seem to like to quote the people talking about the one technology that survived from past generations as if that somehow made criticism of the 99 others a bad call.

Some bits of Minecraft can actually be quite beautiful (e.g. the caves where the axolotls occur) but the graphics are certainly not photorealistic.