[HN Gopher] Utopia Clicker
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Utopia Clicker
Author : colinprince
Score : 38 points
Date : 2023-08-28 18:06 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| davidivadavid wrote:
| That reminded me of an interesting Yudkowsky article [1] about
| how a utopia requires "high challenge" :
|
| "So this is the ultimate end of the prophecy of technological
| progress--just staring at a screen that says "YOU WIN", forever."
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| [1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/29vqqmGNxNRGzffEj/high-
| chall...
| Amorymeltzer wrote:
| Okay.
|
| At the risk of giving something away, it's definitely worth
| reading _Moby Dick_. I 've tried to read some "old" "classics" in
| the past few years, and truth be told a lot of them can fall
| flat, feeling not only from but also _stuck_ in a different era.
| _Moby Dick_ is something I think folks should read. You won 't
| necessarily love it, but it's so clearly an accomplishment that I
| think it's worth it. Even the much-maligned whale- and whaling-
| specific chapters say so much about the craft (is it even a
| novel?) of writing. It's the book that (thus far anyway) has most
| made me want to write a book.
| onlyusername wrote:
| At the very least, it "saves" your game between sessions, so
| you can continue where you left off. I wonder if anyone has
| made a book to be read this way so you can easily know where
| you stopped reading?
| root_axis wrote:
| All the games on the Kindle console support this feature.
| kyle-rb wrote:
| Hmm, this could be kinda nice, especially if you want to
| ctrl+f search for a previous passage, without the risk of
| jumping ahead and spoiling yourself. I wonder if any ebook
| readers (software or devices) have implemented that specific
| feature.
| klenwell wrote:
| I agree. It is an amazing, quasi-anachronistic novel. Speaking
| of Utopia, Melville offers his own vision of it in Chapter 94,
| A Squeeze of the Hand:
|
| _Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed
| that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that
| sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found
| myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers' hands in it,
| mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an
| abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this
| avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their
| hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as
| to say,--Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer
| cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor
| or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all
| squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves
| universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.
|
| Would that I could keep squeezing that sperm for ever! For now,
| since by many prolonged, repeated experiences, I have perceived
| that in all cases man must eventually lower, or at least shift,
| his conceit of attainable felicity; not placing it anywhere in
| the intellect or the fancy; but in the wife, the heart, the
| bed, the table, the saddle, the fireside, the country; now that
| I have perceived all this, I am ready to squeeze case
| eternally. In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long
| rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of
| spermaceti._
|
| It's an odd fish.
| blast wrote:
| Good lord. May I ask what sort of sperm he was squeezing?
| munificent wrote:
| Spermaceti: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spermaceti
| Amorymeltzer wrote:
| Sperm Whale, specifically Spermaceti:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spermaceti
| googlryas wrote:
| I disagree - nobody "should" read Moby Dick. As in, don't read
| it because you saw it on a "Top 10 books" list, or had it
| recommended to you by a friend. Everyone on their reading
| journey is at a different spot, and got there a different way.
| So I never recommend Moby Dick to anyone, even though it was
| one of my favorite reading experiences of my life, for fear
| that it isn't for a person at a certain time. Once they're
| ready for it, they may find it, and love it.
| the_snooze wrote:
| >Even the much-maligned whale- and whaling-specific chapters
| say so much about the craft (is it even a novel?) of writing.
|
| It's been a while since I read Moby-Dick in my 11th grade
| English class, but the impression I got is that it's a whaling
| ship's operating handbook with some revenge-plot narrative
| flair here and there.
| er4hn wrote:
| Moby Dick is a combination of a beautiful story combined with
| the most boring details imaginable about whaling. As far as I
| recall those details add nothing to the story beyond Melville
| being worried he would not have enough "street cred" with
| whalers unless he added enough details to show that he knows
| what real whaling is all about.
|
| I have often been tempted to use a razor and go Jefferson Bible
| on that book, cutting out all the pointless detailed sections.
| lacoolj wrote:
| setInterval(generateUtopias, 10)
| [deleted]
| crumpled wrote:
| function generateUtopiae(){
| document.getElementById("utopiaGain").click();
| setTimeout(generateUtopiae, 10); }
|
| generateUtopiae()
| Timon3 wrote:
| Alternatively click on the button and hold the Enter key :)
| crumpled wrote:
| I put that in my console and watched...
| csours wrote:
| setInterval( generateUtopias, 10)
| Exuma wrote:
| Total utopias: 1123.4
|
| YOU WIN: UTOPIA ACHIEVED
| frizlab wrote:
| Damn, now I kind of want to know what happens when one clicks
| through the whole book...
| crumpled wrote:
| Me too. Someone please complete this and report back.
| [deleted]
| tylershuster wrote:
| Just view source. Alternately: setInterval(function ()
| {document.getElementById('generate').click();}, 50);
| aidenn0 wrote:
| > ...wow, that was a pretty good book.
|
| > Hope you liked it.
|
| > Thanks again for creating a utopia, by the way.
|
| > Probably wouldn't have had time to read that book if you
| hadn't.
|
| I created another 100 utopias after that with no update.
| throwitaway156 wrote:
| You did a setInterval, right?
|
| Right?
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