ming cat !

We just released Predictle, a new daily prediction market puzzle game! Go try it out, and sort from highest to least probability in as few guesses as you can!

I regret not becoming more of an outspoken troublemaker sooner. I had way too much trust and fear of fucking up plans I didn’t understand. Perhaps we would have been in a better position to deal with this mess if I had had more hubris. I’d never seen how the x risk reduction sausage was made. If you haven’t either, believe me, it’s not a process you should feel comfortable deferring to. I don’t recommend assuming everyone’s an idiot or that they’re all corrupt, they’re not, which makes matters worse. Many are some of the most intelligent and thoughtful people I’ve ever met. But also please do not assume that they’ve already taken everything you might’ve thought of into account, even if you can’t easily articulate it, perhaps especially if you can’t easily articulate it. Do not assume they have well thought out plans that wouldn’t seem obviously idiotic to you if you saw all of the cognition involved. Do not worry that they just have better taste than you. Do not fear for fucking up their plans. If their plans are really that important, and you really might fuck them up, then let them explain to you why, and listen carefully but also with some caution that they are trying to silence or disempower you because you are upsetting a balance of power that has them on top. And most of all, be suspicious of your own motivations for not wanting to step on any toes. I would have indeed been invited to the cool parties or gotten the cool jobs or whatever the fuck less often if I had become more of a troublemaker sooner. Being in the inner ring was always very alluring to me, but that was basically fucking stupid and shortsighted. I would be and feel cooler now if I had started sooner even if there were a valley to cross. I feel angry at myself for not seeing this earlier and it is perhaps not very good advice for most people, and perhaps worded a bit too harshly, but I wish somebody had said it to me a decade ago. P.S. This is not an excuse to be an asshole or to not hold love and kindness in your heart and don’t lose the ability to coordinate with people you disagree with because that’s also extremely costly. See ya on the other side.

apparently reached the point of shilling anthropic so hard now when claude does crazy impressive things my friends just text me about it

just read about a mtg combo that creates an incredible but bounded number of tokens using just 3 cards. (the final token count is 10^10^10^⋯ where there are 29 tens and the final topmost exponent is 3.55×10^20.) man i love this game.

Left or right: Moneyball black edition

Second one is me!

30年前くらいに村上春樹のエッセイで、アメリカではコーラにピーナッツを入れて飲むのがポピュラーだと書いてあった。「ふぅん」と思ってから長い時間が経ったが、ついにやってみた。 何だこれバカ美味いんでやんの。 これ以外でもうコーラ飲みたくなくなるレベル。

I'll forever miss the more grounded designs, its like a cute "yeah this is my job not my obsession"

What obscure Magic card fills you with boiling rage whenever you see it? For me it's Turn the Earth. Back when Creativity was good in Modern this card was in many a sideboard. It was never really good at it's job. I hated seeing people waste slots on it.

What gaming opinion will you defend like this?🚀