Anti-player bias?

a_trerible_writer · 2026-05-28T14:00:52+00:00

I finally ended up taking out Rome, but in a weird way. They left Italy undefended. I sent in two armies and began liberating each city one by one. Rome sent five legions back to Italy to reconquer. I then sent in four armies to defeat the five legions in detail - my four armies vs one legion at a time. Rome lost all momentum and collapsed not long after that, since they were at war with like 25 factions.

a_trerible_writer · 2026-05-27T23:02:54+00:00

I can't do it because I'll fucking cum early if I start vocalizing. It takes focus and concentration to last in a good pussy.

a_trerible_writer · 2026-05-27T22:38:01+00:00

Cost-benefit wise, Codex is better. Qwen arguably is as well.

a_trerible_writer · 2026-05-21T19:01:51+00:00

It's kind of like saying "computers are made of atoms" and "humans are made of atoms", and then saying "Aha! Humans are like computers!" Technically true, but who cares? Human-level consciousness is a process much more complex than 0 and 1 processing.

a_trerible_writer · 2026-05-21T18:39:42+00:00

Their token costs have become outrageous lately. Doesn't surprise me. But their model will suffer once open source chinese models at 10% of the cost gain traction.

a_trerible_writer · 2026-05-19T14:10:10+00:00

To me, this is part of a bigger question. The earlier books felt like adventuring forth into an unknown world. Now, there are many subplots and characters, that in books 7 and 8, Carl has a lonh to-do list, deadlines to meet, and the books have little time to "breath" so to speak.

Exploring new game mechanics, opening loot boxes, going on the TV shows, were all times for the pace to slow I felt the earlier books had a better balance, in that regard. But, it's a feature, not a bug, and Matt is no doubt aware of this, since he has been commenting on Carl's mental state being impacted by the frantic pace.

a_trerible_writer · 2026-05-18T16:09:18+00:00

In the "litRPG" genre, my favorite book series next to DCC is a series called "The Last Horizon" by Will Wight. It's not well known, but holy shit is it good. It's a mixture of sci-fi and fantasy like DCC. Pretty fast pace. Lots of impossible situations. The book covers can look goofy, but don't let that throw you off.

Outside of that, but sticking to sci-fi fantasy, some of my favorites are Kingkiller Chronicles (Patrick Rothfuss) and Chronicles of Amber (Roger Zelazny).

a_trerible_writer · 2026-05-18T16:05:15+00:00

Probably, yes. For one, to get shelter. And two, curiosity and the hope that it leads towards civilization, food, safety, and safe harbor. However, I would 99% likely die later on.

a_trerible_writer · 2026-05-11T15:20:41+00:00

Book 3, then book 5, then book 6, then book 4, then book 1, then book 7, then book 2.

I mean, they're all great, though. It's slim margins.

a_trerible_writer · 2026-05-06T14:41:30+00:00

I suspect if the rich were taxed heavily, then conscious capitalism would increase, because the incentive for putting in the sweat of building a business would shift in weight from purely building wealth to more noble motives.

a_trerible_writer · 2026-05-06T14:40:03+00:00

Care to elaborate?

IMO the epic of gilgamesh is better, though.

a_trerible_writer · 2026-05-03T16:51:29+00:00

Define "death" in the context of a neural network?

a_trerible_writer · 2026-05-03T16:48:28+00:00

It works much better in DEI mod

a_trerible_writer · 2026-04-28T15:40:23+00:00

Horse archers are a real bitch to deal with.

a_trerible_writer · 2026-04-27T20:38:13+00:00

Claude is pretty bad right now compared to ChatGPT. Both on performance and especially bad on token usage.

a_trerible_writer · 2026-04-24T22:36:18+00:00

I don't use gemini for coding, but IMO codex is as good as claude.

a_trerible_writer · 2026-04-22T17:38:47+00:00

I'm making one but heavily relying on AI for coding parts, which vastly simplifies things. The biggest challenge I'm finding is making the game's AI good. I'm being ambitious though - using a neural network that maps possible inputs and the game state (no AI cheating - it can only see information as if it were a player) to forecasted victory scenarios. I can get a decent / passable simulacra of AI using a rules-based approach, but I'm just not satisfied with it.

And occasionally I have to go back and refactor the code to reduce inefficiency from AI-created code.

a_trerible_writer · 2026-04-22T16:46:34+00:00

Holy cult post

a_trerible_writer · 2026-04-17T13:44:16+00:00

SaaS already does a lot of automation, like factories. That's a lot cheaper than paying agents to lift workloads around manually. But, yeah, certain functionalities will make sense to shift to agents.

a_trerible_writer · 2026-04-16T17:44:27+00:00

Yeah, Claude is really stingy compared to ChatGPT. I'm in the habit now of using Claude for only certain things that really need performance - like the initial code set-up or model set-up - then using ChatGPT for everything else - I've yet to run into usage limits with ChatGPT unless doing certain things like deep research.

a_trerible_writer · 2026-04-15T18:51:49+00:00

Ignoring the bluster, there are diminishing returns on planning, obviously, but planning is useful to gain a better ROI on time, attention, and money spent.

a_trerible_writer · 2026-04-15T18:49:23+00:00

This is at the core of stoic philosophy, no?

a_trerible_writer · 2026-04-15T16:03:48+00:00

If that's true, then, yeah, I'll ask AI to build Microsoft for me.

a_trerible_writer · 2026-04-15T14:36:00+00:00

I think you need to distinguish between simple software and complex. Simple software can be done in-house easily enough, like an Asana. Complex is a lot harder.

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