Tag: muds
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Hard Worlds For Little Guys
Why LLM agents need hard worlds; lessons from interactive fiction engine design.
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Making Friends with AI
It’s worth exploring whether a Tamagotchi style lifecycle design pattern could be applied to AI assistants to help users maintain healthy emotional distance.
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Like We Did In Y2K | 2337
The cultural and tech comeback of the Y2K era. Old trends shaping the state of the post vibe shift Internet.
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Presence in Worlds | 2333
What’s the difference between experiencing Presence and Immersion in a world? Or in techno-social systems of any kind?
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Quite Busy
Mindfulness as its understood by wider culture is almost the only kind of meditation there is is dangerous.
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Stuck with Berduck
Over on Blusesky this week, 1000’s of people were stuck in a Hellthread with an AI powered rubber duck reply guy.
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Lore as Lens | 2313
The growing importance of lore reflects the rise of a new kind cultural sense-making and social technology.
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MUDs to Metaverse: The Unreal Estate Deal | 2308
Costly virtual land in the metaverse today is a result of memory constraints on mainframes. A solution to a problem that no longer exists.
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Geocity and the City | 2302
This episode is about what happens when the metaphors we use change. But mostly it’s about Geocities.
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Metaverse as Medium | 2220
Why I think the metaverse is important, MUDs, the web as 30 year long distraction, and why worlding worlds means shaping reality.
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Marriage in the Metaverse | 2218
8th May 1996, 26 years ago tomorrow. Tomas Landhaus and Janka Stanhope were married in the metaverse. Plus my chapter in the new book Lost Zone.
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A Napster Moment For Collective Storytelling | 2133
Experienced Future shock this week with the launch of three NFT projects: LOOT, The Logged Universe, and Lifeforms. Permissive IPs are coming. If I was a major producer/owner of culture.…
