jonhendry

Doh! Should have read the full Wikipedia article.

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.

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"

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.

Books would be really boring if the protagonists were all just the author speaking as themself but using various funny voices.

Shovels that are less and less competitive over time.

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.

I haven't seen the details but apparently Apple may not be paying OpenAI for the ChatGPT functionality. So macOS may not be using ChatGPT heavily.

Facebook conspiracy theorist grannies suggest that employment isn't required.

Yeah, I'm not going to believe anything out of OpenAI that isn't produced as part of discovery.

So who is going to be first to set up a grifty EA think tank where the thinking is admittedly all done by LLMs, and why shouldn't it be us.

Shirley Manson or GTFO. But I don't think they'd like her.