Great project! I somehow missed whole cpu architecture topic, so gonna catch up on that now

Yeah, fortunately I made cpu arch part of the game, so it'll serve great for that as well

Well, you see, if men stay alive, but women are killed, society collapses eventually as not enough new people are born. It sucks being a man in this scenario, but it is what it is.

And if you include women (well, all genders) directly in the war efforts you double the amount of soldiers you have, which would increase your chance of winning and not needing to repopulate.

You can lose a war, yet still keep your country. You can also win a war, yet still need to repopulate.

Someone has to stay behind and make ammunition.

If you refuse to fight, you lose.

If you all agree to refuse to fight, you win.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma

The key here is to refuse fighting. Nobody becomes a hero by becoming a murderer whose goal is to defend the political power of Stalin, Napoleon, Bush, or whoever.

Arguably, not enough people are being born as it stands. We're already in your collapse scenario.

I suspect one tool governments across the world will resort to when they get desperate about sub-replacement fertility is changing mandatory conscription from males to the childless. Quite strong incentive, not be sent to the meatgrinder.

I don't know if US miles gives better deals, but in EU (Flying Blue, KLM) Amsterdam-Munich (1hr flight) business class is 52k miles. Amsterdam - Los Angeles business class goes for 550k miles. For 1 passenger.

This was 70k round trip SFO-OSL, for 1 passenger. In general, good deals on international flying is the main win with points. Domestic can be useful too, but usually less so.

Do they really match full functionality and user experience though?

I red 1984 and "Brave new world" roughly at the same time, and for quite some time I thought 1984 to be too unrealistic, and I considered bnw as more likely scenario. I was wrong.

I remember having a similar feeling about 'A Handmaids Tale', a TV show I gave up watching because I would actually weep myself to sleep.

Coming soon no doubt. It's like they are determined to make dystopian nightmares a reality, almost as if they know the end is nigh or this particular iteration of civilization is drawing to a close and they are determined to squeeze the very soul out of the experience.

To what end? Distraction? Personal enrichment?

Everyone wants their slice of the pie fore the music stops?

The fact that it's AI generated is simultaneously thrilling and frightening. Especially considering that some AI Agents might be trained on that.

I found that running an agent in ralph loop, showing it the agent text and saying "run this, if it fails - identify the reason, and modify the agent instructions to avoid this, acceptance criteria are this and that" worked surprisingly well. Not sure if it qualifies as a self-referential self improving, but it was something.

I'm currently running autoresearch against my harness that autonomously builds SaaS against an enforced architecture, and autoresearch managed to improve the harness performance on my 'time-to-Realworld' benchmark which has Claude Code drive the harness to build an implementation of https://github.com/realworld-apps/realworld with the win condition that it must pass my rigorous postman collection + playwright test suites. Experiments are capped at 90 minutes and the metric it optimises for is calculated from a weighting against number of tests passing, alignment with harness engineering best practices, and time to completion.