[HN Gopher] Utopia Clicker ___________________________________________________________________ Utopia Clicker Author : colinprince Score : 38 points Date : 2023-08-28 18:06 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (tinysubversions.com) (TXT) w3m dump (tinysubversions.com) | 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." | | [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? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-08-28 23:00 UTC)