Just thinking out loud here wondering how true this is, because of course incremental games are not quite the real world, and having unbelievable hours of ‘content’ often with stalling and offline time is the norm. Things are quite complex, but if you buy that it’s “easy” for someone to make money in a guru-style way (which I can get if people don’t, because of how many get rich quick scheme course scams there are) you probably believe more in RSI. Because you believe “oh you can use the money to easily automatically make more money”. The real world is of course complex and most jobs require a lot of manual “prove you are human” efforts in some indirect way, dealing with a lot of proprietary software.
In an incremental game you’re also stuck in a “log scale” sort of way. When you go from 10^10 to 10^12 it’s just numbers that change. But in some sort of proto-AGI system this could be very well seen as 100x of… something. That could represent ‘foom’ way more than it may appear on a log scale.
It is odd to think about, because we do seemingly have stuff like “100x in compute”, it just hasn’t seemed like the pieces have been put together for a kind of power-getting system, with computer use and command line use still seeming a little bit of a prototype compared to where it could be. This “100x” could mean nothing or everything depending on what it represents, like if it was “100x copies” for some botnet computer virus using a zero-day that could be the most relevant thing, whereas even something like “100x money” may not be scalable or dead-end without a good way to use it (in the same way as an incremental, lol).
Just thinking out loud here wondering how true this is, because of course incremental games are not quite the real world, and having unbelievable hours of ‘content’ often with stalling and offline time is the norm. Things are quite complex, but if you buy that it’s “easy” for someone to make money in a guru-style way (which I can get if people don’t, because of how many get rich quick scheme course scams there are) you probably believe more in RSI. Because you believe “oh you can use the money to easily automatically make more money”. The real world is of course complex and most jobs require a lot of manual “prove you are human” efforts in some indirect way, dealing with a lot of proprietary software.
In an incremental game you’re also stuck in a “log scale” sort of way. When you go from 10^10 to 10^12 it’s just numbers that change. But in some sort of proto-AGI system this could be very well seen as 100x of… something. That could represent ‘foom’ way more than it may appear on a log scale.
It is odd to think about, because we do seemingly have stuff like “100x in compute”, it just hasn’t seemed like the pieces have been put together for a kind of power-getting system, with computer use and command line use still seeming a little bit of a prototype compared to where it could be. This “100x” could mean nothing or everything depending on what it represents, like if it was “100x copies” for some botnet computer virus using a zero-day that could be the most relevant thing, whereas even something like “100x money” may not be scalable or dead-end without a good way to use it (in the same way as an incremental, lol).