PhiMarHal (phimarhal)

Ah, something interesting on Farcaster. I'm actually onboard with most of the plan. Although the clauses against AI content, and on future requirements for proof-of-humanity, are strange. Can a "techno-optimist" pledge also be an anti-AI pledge? That seems odd to me. Surely we'd be better served by meritocracy. Worry not where the content is from, instead care about the content being good. Incidentally, this is something the previous teams failed to do, and perhaps a reason for their demise? The original team in particular notoriously enshrined low-tier influencers, and ultimately the network could not compete for attention with high-tier influencers elsewhere. Good luck to Network State. As an actual techno optimist, I hope you'll join me in embracing our future robot masters. 🙂

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0/0 account. This guy must really hate me from a past life.

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Haven't been on Farcaster for a minute, not even sure anyone will see this cast... Is Farcaster still actively developed? Miniapps take ages to open, sometimes fail. Half of the FC app interface is unresponsive. This was always bad but it's the worst it's ever been.

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Contrarian urge to counter the contrarian urge.

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Most annoying part of the bottle cap regulation has to be seeing those attached caps on milk bottles. Like... Who pulls out a bottle of milk on the street to chug it and throw the cap away???

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Many Farcaster builders build annoyanceware by default. i.e.: click on this specific frame to interact with our app, which was posted 1 month ago by this very active account, pinned at the time and unpinned since, and the only official docs point to now obsolete "link in profile". Frames take seconds between each transition, have unexplained server errors, you lose all your progress the moment you step away, and so on. It's rather strange. We have this decentralized protocol where transparent data is presumably a big draw, but then the official UI for it heavily restricts your UX (don't get me started on button placement - almost sent one of my dolphin nudes no less than 3 times typing this, due to button placement and interface lag). Thirdparties go even further in that direction. These are choices, which at least is reassuring for Farcaster the protocol. If x people are willing to endure this UX, some multiplier of x should be willing to play once we reverse course at scale.

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Timetravel murder mystery game where NPC dialogue is powered by a LLM. Each NPC has a distinct set of goals determined from the start (randomized at least to an extent, so each playthrough is different and the Internet can't spoil you an exact walkthrough). Fail conditions and thematic limits on player dialogue so user can't just bruteforce through i.e.: might get to speak to NPC mr A 3 times in a row, but then he has to do task X so he excuses himself no matter what. Unless player said something so compelling it overrides task X! Run a global clock for NPC behavior Elder Scrolls style, essentially.

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