[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

Doh! Should have read the full Wikipedia article.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

Pfft. Real hoopy froods play Heroclix.

I do not play Heroclix but I bought some about 20 years ago.

Jesus christ 20 years? Huh. Also I didn't notice but it was discontinued in 2008.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah that was my read of the game from my first exposure to it. "You have to buy cards sight-unseen hoping to get good ones? That's a scam."

It's like they looked at Dungeons and Dragons product churn and thought "No, that's not shitty enough"

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago

The Auryn project has a sub-project called North Star, founded by a VC partner, and a Bain Capital veteran, among others.

The whole thing gives me the ick.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago

Shovels that are less and less competitive over time.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago

Perhaps that's part of why so many SV types are backing Trump. Grifting off Trump may be their fallback after the AI bubble collapses.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago

Welcome to Alcor Towers.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago

Someone send Roko a copy of James K. Morrow's novel "Towing Jehovah" which involves the enormous corpse of God being towed, by a (much smaller) oil tanker, from near the Equator north to a fijord for burial in a cave. (I lost interest toward the end).

It's not strictly relevant - I don't think the crew sets up on the corpse itself - but it'd be fun to watch where Roko's head goes.

"Step One: We kill God. Step Two: We harvest the cadaver, plastinate it, and build our city."

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago

A million red-hot tungsten balls.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago

Just program the godlike AI to turn everything into pykrete instead of paperclips.

Problem solved.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 1 points 11 months ago

"And then I made the demons build a half pipe the size of the grand canyon, and I did tricks that have never been done before, and the girls all watched and were impressed."

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

Testing EQ would probably be opposed as "woke" by conservative parents in the school district.

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