If we get the Singularity, it's overwhelmingly likely Jesus will return concurrently.

After some trial and error, I hacked it together using Love.js (an unofficial Emscripten/WebAssembly port of Love2d) and Love.js-Api-Player, which lets Lua call JS functions. The result is a Love2D game running in the browser, with leaderboards and other web features.

The game is “What They Don’t Tell You About Living in New York” — an alpha-stage bullet hell dungeon crawler where you fight demons in an NYC skyscraper with psychic powers. It’s fast-paced, with 8-bit programmer art, and mechanics inspired by American Football.

As an experiment, I added a single-player esports twist: top leaderboard players win small prize pools I fund myself, paid out via P2P apps (PayPal, Cash App) or crypto (Dogecoin, Solana). It’s less about the money and more about how modern payment tech makes running these kind of micro-competitions possible for indie devs.

The tech stack is janky but works surprisingly well, and AFAIK, no one’s pushed Love2D this far into the web space before. Has anyone else messed with Love2D in the browser like this? I’d love feedback on the setup, the game, or the esports idea. Join the Discord (discord.gg/E8xxQdNERb) if you’re into Love2D or game dev tinkering!

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And I know similar Junior-mid people in the same boat. We can all do Fizzbuzz, we've all built things, and somehow we're not getting interviews, but people that can't do Fizzbuzz are.

Do thousands of incompetents also machine-gun apply to, say, mechanical engineering, accounting, marketing, HR, or finance gigs? Is it just tech?

Something isn't adding up.

That said, his willingness to push back against orthodoxy means he's occasionally right. Scaling really has seemed to plateau since GPT-3.5, Hallucinations are still a problem that are perhaps unsolvable under the current paradigm, LLMs do seem to have problems with things far outside their training data.

Basically, while listening to Gary Marcus, you will hear a lot of nonsense, it will probably give you a better picture of reality if you can sort the wheat from the chaff. Listening to only Sam Altman, or other AI Hypelords, you'll think the Singularity is right around the corner. Listen to Gary Marcus, you won't.

Sam Altman has been substantially more correct on average than Gary Marcus, but I believe Marcus is right that the Singularity narrative is bogus.

Does "marginally qualified" mean "Ivy League Competitive Programmer PhD" or something?

Was path dependency for careers always this bad?

Idk if I'm even being sarcastic here.

I've heard it could get us very accurate high-detail physics simulations, which has potential, but don't know if that's legit or marketing BS.

Is that solvable? who knows?

The post was so shockingly hyperbolic I'm surprised they didn't mention the Chinese were also sapping and impurifying our precious bodily fluids.

What should I even say? It was a borderline schizo sinophobic diatribe asserted without evidence.

In unrelated news, anyone see that NYT interview with Yarvin yesterday?

That they say this is for "National Security" gives the game away.