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The most interesting threat of advanced chatbots like ChatGPT are the online clades who are already treating them like oracles with a supernatural access to truth.
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Gonna be a guest on ' official Dwarf Fortress stream this evening (about 10m from now) w/ host
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It brings ADMIN no pleasure to have been this right, but it took Beef Bar 80 minutes from start to finish
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The Pitch vs The Product
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I just really, really, really want to stress that this is not a snide, bad-faith reading. It's practically a quote.
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"The future will be 3D virtual spaces"
Why?
Because otherwise it'll just be the internet.
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There's a tremendous air gap between "Roblox is a successful game platforms" and "that's why labour will move to virtual spaces that are linked to all other virtual spaces" and that gap is filled with "because if we don't then the metaverse won't exist."
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This is relevant as he prognosticates that Facebook and Microsoft would hypothetically eventually see the value in their products being interoperable, but no time is spent interrogating if the underlying products are, you know, good.
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He talks a lot about the development of the internet as a process of negotiating standards, but goes around the fact that a network-of-networks was self-evidently valuable because there was a need for existing networks to talk to other existing networks.
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His framing of the metaverse is barely-disguised spiritualism, its Goodness is treated as largely self-evident, its inevitability is certain, but then you remember he's talking about 3D web pages.
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He spends the better part of a chapter outlining technical hurdles that inhibit his vision of a latency-free, persistent, malleable digital space, then effortlessly asserts that we'll solve those problems *because otherwise the metaverse won't be able to exist.*
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His core argument for the move to this nested 3D interaction space is "kids who grew up with Roblox will probably prefer it" and "Mark Zuckerbeg said it's more intuitive" not any cogent actual argument about usability.
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Are 3D virtual spaces even better for a critical mass of computing applications?
No, which is why you'll still do those using 2D interfaces *inside the 3D virtual world* because if you don't it would just be the internet and not the metaverse.
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"The future will be 3D virtual spaces"
Why?
Because otherwise it'll just be the internet.
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Ball wows the credulous reader with lots of references to things that happened and names of companies that exist, but still leaves massive gaps in his assumptions largely settling on "the metaverse will have to be different because otherwise it won't exist"
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Matthew Ball's "The Metavere and how it will revolutionize everything" is a whirlwind vision of the future sure to dazzle tech CEOs, Venture Capitalist, gullible children, and particularly smart dogs.
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The human brain is a monstrous thing, truly a villain in the purest sense.
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At this point I'm not going to be remotely surprised if I discover an energetic community of Enron shareholders convinced that the 21 years of bankruptcy proceedings are just a ruse to shake off short sellers.
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I've been reading up on CMKM Diamonds, a company that was functionally 100% fraudulent, they had no active mines and produced no diamonds, they were making money purely by selling fake shares and promising it was going to moon, yet 16 years on and there's still people hoping.
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Amazing, Bed Bath & Beyond says "FYI we're basically already bankrupt and probably going out of business" and the meme stock fanatics insist it's a lie to manipulate the stock (which would be a crime) and push for everyone on the forum to buy more.
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If you're not familiar with Godus, boy howdy is it a trip. I believe the version that's on Steam still has Pete's commentary track so you can appreciate the sheer disconnect between what he's saying you'll eventually do in the game and the mechanics in front of your face.
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I would assume based on the stuff that 22cans has actually shipped that, like all its predecessors, there will be some early bottleneck created by design drift that basically makes it impossible for the end game to ever be implemented.
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Based on the Discord chatter during the play test the similarities to Godus are numerous:
basically a clicker game
weird camera controls
cards and stickers
one save game with no (easy) way to start over
an hour of actual play stretched by punishing timers
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Pete has in theory been working on this since he abandoned Godus, which means that we can expect to see blockchain stripped out in early 2024, a barely-functional Steam release of a beta in 2025, with formal abandonment in 2027.
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The announcement of course uses language like "deliver the Legacy Deed Holder Alpha build into your hands", doesn't mention it's a time-gated play test, and opts to include a long list of what players can "expect to see in the (finished) game" but not the alpha.
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Getting caught up on Molyneux's blockchain game and purely to technically fulfill a promise of "coming in 2022" they gave NFT holders an alpha build 2 weeks ago, a year after the land sale.
Sorry, "gave" is the wrong word. They ran a 4 day play test.
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Look everyone!
It's Gary the Chrimbas Hippo, come early to rain embarrassment on your enemies and shame on those who have harmed you!
Truly a blessed portent for a happy 2023!
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Sure Avatar 3 will be an all-day affair with an hour long lunch and two 15 minute paid breaks, but then I feel James has a curveball for us and Avatar 4 is gonna come in at 83 minutes.
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The FTX hearing by the House Committee on Financial Services starts in about twenty minutes. I'll be livetweeting it here, and will be publishing a recap of it in my newsletter later.
Hearing stream: youtube.com/watch?v=rWAnri
Newsletter:
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It’s almost like it was all just talk to get people to buy crypto!?
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Wow, NFT platforms choosing to empower speculators and whales at the direct expense of artists? Who could have seen this coming?!
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I've been thinking an awful lot about the similarities between billionaires and cult leaders, so I wrote a thing about that.
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Weird how major players in crypto just can't seem to stop pontificating on how pointless they think books are.
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Question for people who argue that reading long-form books is virtuous or even necessary:
Are podcasts an acceptable substitute? If not, why not, and what even is the difference between a podcast and an audiobook?
(I frequently listen to both)
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I am absolutely addicted to everyone in the comments sharing their own stories of how they've seen tryhardism worm its way into the most casual games imaginable, like Toontown Online and Words With Friends 2
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A fun little video about video games, free of giant blocks of citations? Sure, hit play and find out.
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Sure we spend eleven months of the year trying to get more people to gamble their life savings on a failing video game retailer because we believe it will trigger a mythological MOASS that will usher in a new dawn , but also we sent a $18 pizza to a store on Christmas Eve once.
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Mate, they wouldn’t even be in the first thousand cults to do a toy drive. It’s literally the go-to activity for making a cult palatable to the general public. twitter.com/precipitvte/st
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Like I said: massive psychic wound
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It has led to a fixation on non-standard dividends (which are rare, but have happened), typically conceptualized as boosting GameStop's crypto presence beyond their extremely poorly performing NFT marketplace.
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