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  • I think you’d have to change the goals of the game based on whoever last positively or negatively interacted with him. Something like “+Military attack vs. the last player with a negative interaction; -Military attack vs all other players,” where the bonus is ever changing.

    It seems like he’d have gold earnings at the cost of reduced production domestically. But also some push-pull, like every 50 gold generates 1 unhappiness, with costal cities generating twice as much unhappiness.

    I’d want to see some other dice roll mechanic that changes the Civ every 2-3 turns. It would probably be something around culture, but now the character’s mechanics are a little crowded.

    For units, it appears they’d use a battleship that’s a complete disaster and not actually helpful. There’s probably also something like a priest / culture bomb unit, like you can send an influencer which causes unhappiness in other states when it gets to a city (sort of like a spy).



  • Roblox is insane in scale & mostly invisible to anyone older than 23. Right now, some of the peak 24hr concurrent on Steam charts is:

    • CS2: 1.5m
    • DOTA2: 1.2m
    • PUBG: 670k
    • ARC Raiders: 420k
    • Rust: 235k

    These are insane, but Grow A Garden regularly has 2m concurrent every weekend. Adopt Me or Brookhaven can have north of 1m on weekend, especially if they update. Roblox Concerts regularly have 2m or more.

    I have 3 kids, and I worked at a well-known Roblox video game company (Top 5). People in our generation just do not know, unless they have kids and definitely know.




  • Billionaire math

    Average USA billionaire has about $7b in wealth.

    2026 * 365 ‎ = 739,490

    $7,000,000,000 / 739,490‎ = $9,465.98

    You would need to make $9k per day, for 2026 years, to catch up to the average billionaire wealth right now.

    It’s estimated in 2026 that it would cost $37b to end world hunger until 2030.

    Also note that Musk, Bezos, and other extreme billionaires are up to 100x of the average here ($700b for Musk). Who is making $900k per day?

    This is not natural, it’s not rational, and it’s completely bullshit. You can come up with whatever distraction you want (“wealth & income aren’t the same”), but we should be taxing every dollar above $1b at 99% or higher.

    30 years * 365 day = 10,950

    $1,000,000,000 / 10,950 ‎ = $91,324.20

    I could easily live off of $91k per DAY for 30 YEARS.

    If you put these numbers against a human time scale we can understand, I don’t see the argument for this level of wealth, especially not as people go hungry, without clothes or food, and children die.






  • Watching this evolve over the last year has been crazy. I’ve said to family & friends: people can take completely banal photos and turn them into porno scenes. This was true in the past, but the speed, quality, and volume is tuned waaaay up compared to past uses of similar tech.

    Once teenage boys understand this tech more broadly, we are going to have serious issues. We’ve had stories over the last few years, but I think this will become a societal issue. The consequences of making & distrusting porn of minors are bad (as they should be), but I bet a lot of dumb young boys will recreate their peers without fully comprehending the seriousness.

    Likewise, I have 3 young girls. Watching this tech develop: it’s deeply troubling & disheartening. Again, all of this could have been done before, but it feels like a Pandora’s box.




  • We keep sinking lower and lower on the bar for civilized society. It was already bad in the US. It feels like a new low every day, either in competency, in malevolence, moral depravity, or all three. We’ve gone from “it’s the season of giving” to propagandizing fascist Santa, complete with passive aggressive Merry Christmas.

    In the CECOT video, the president & warden are like, “Oh yeah, we fuck people up! Humans rights don’t matter here.” They are gloating to try and remove the shame of their lack of morality. Same thing is happening here. Shock & awe, flood the zone, & it never ends.



  • A lot of people are saying there isn’t a rights argument, which I think is true.

    Considering this through the lens of a video game, is it morally bad if I pay a hooker in GTA, use their services, and then kill them? I don’t think there is harm. I don’t think there are rights. It wouldn’t matter if everyone was cruel to GTA NPCs.

    Having said that, from a behavioral position, I don’t think it’s morally good. Put another way, this sort of behavior isn’t a good thing to emulate. I don’t think it’s a good idea to cultivate a habit of emulating cruelty.

    As others have said, there’s still the risk of AGI in the future as well.

    With where we are right now, I don’t think it’s a big deal, but I’m not interested in entertaining new slurs, fictional or real.