Basically digital philanthropy.

No it’s not.

Artificial scarcity is the lifeblood of meritocracy. We’ve just hit peak meritocracy is all. Turns out it’s hell.

Fascism: Some things never change (aspirational)

This is literally the plot from an episode of Mythic Quest…

Man, I can’t stop thinking about this. There’s no income in the culture, they don’t even use money. I feel like he heard “drug glands” and that was all took, why read on?! Surely the books aren’t Azimovian in their containing warnings against simplistic understandings.

For me, playing Doom 2 normal vs god mode, it totally makes sense that a gamer would be the sort to get bored in that environment. Though I do think versions of that would be true for anyone who couldn’t find meaning in some project of worth.

I just re-listened to it and I want to write a paper on what it says about meaningful lives and the importance of luck in games.

In Player of Games, my personal fave, the main character is a gamer guy who is considered slightly weird for never having changed sex’s. Not genders. Sex. That’s the future Elon thinks is likely, as he helps the party that fears (((transhumanism))) and is banning gender affirming care for minors.

This is like the icecaps receding on the conceptual map, revealing untouched natural resources (dissertation topics).

For sure I’ll be handing out as many as I can! I’m also working with a middle school teacher who wants to implement luckpilling in their school.

There is not sadly. I just heard from my editor that she should have an update for me early new year tho so hopefully soon!