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Good, that was on purpose.

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Cake day: June 14th, 2024

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  • I do have a recommendation for a cozy FPS: The Signal from Tolva.

    Basically you’re a robot in an old robot battlefield planet and you’ve got to shoot other robots, sometimes team up with other robots and go around getting upgrades.

    The coziness comes from the environment, which has some strong outworldliness vibe and it feels slightly lonely but in a “journey” way. Plus the guns feel good and it’s probably really cheap right now.

    The cons is that the game doesn’t feel finished, after a while it gets repetitive and then it just ends.

    If I had to describe it, I would say it’s an FPS+walking simulator.

    “Generation Zero” would be my second recommendation, which is a mixture of Red Dawn, Swedish 80s and big robots.

    Note: I haven’t played them except for the 2nd entry, but the Far Cry series feels like it is a mixture between FPS and holiday island.








  • Let’s put it this way: If in our lifetime we can simulate the intelligence of a vinegar fly as general intelligence, that would be a monumental landmark in AGI. And we’re far, far, far away from it.

    As far as the iron age was from the metal alloys used in the Space Shuttle.

    Talking about AGI simulating higher intelligence at the level of a dog or a cat, dear I say a pigeon or a crow is as far fetched as expecting ancient Egyptians to harness the power of the atom.





  • That’s why the “hustling culture” is so important and prevalent in our society right now.
    Everyone “knows” someone that made bank with either youtube, selling some pyramid-scheme product, bitcoins, some collectibles, craft beer, lottery… you name it.

    Social media (and before that was TV) is selling us the idea that there’s a shortcut to becoming rich, you just need to find it, hustle, and you will become one of the rich persons.

    That’s also why there’s so much cult of wealth and billionaires.

    That said, a large portion of Millennials and after them have a rather negative view of billionaires and are rather skeptical of becoming rich, or even becoming home owners.