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Jason Rohrer’s Project December: AI seances at $10 a pop (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 4 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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with early "grieftech" entepreneur Helena Blavatsky

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[–] luciole 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh no. I mainly knew Jason Rohrer for his video games. For a few minutes I hoped this was some elaborate prank, but apparently he drank the Kool-Aid. He wrote that Project December’s chatbot was arguably the first machine with a soul. I preferred the playful minimalist existentialism of Passage.

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

ngl his stuff always felt a bit cynical to me, in that it seemed to exist more to say "look, video games can have a deep message!" than it did to just have such a message in the first place. Like it existed more to gesture at the concept of meaningfulness rather than to be meaningful itself.

[–] luciole 9 points 4 months ago

Yeah in retrospect I see what you mean.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago

always great* when someone does something that sucks so much it makes his previous work suck retrospectively